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Save $24 Trillion: Cycle 10%
The Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) says, . . . using bicycles, and electric bikes, for just, . . . 10% of urban trips, it would save some . . . $24 trillion between now and 2050, as well as, . . . reducing GHG emissio...
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Battery Costs Set To Fall 60% By 2020
Driven by demand, from both the, . . . networks adapt to increasing distributed and renewable energy capacity, . . . consumers wishing to store their solar energy, . . . in less than 5 years, will see the costs of . . . lithium-ion batteries fall by 6...
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The Lithium Boom
Lithium, the lightest and most versatile of the metals, . . . has the highest electric output per unit weight. Elon Musk says, demand for stationary storage batteries has skyrocketed, . . . to the point that an expansion of the gigafactory may have to...
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Goodbye, Coal; Hello, Batteries
A 2-megawatt lithium-ion battery system, will be placed at Duke Energy’s, . . . retired W.C. Beckjord coal-fired power plant in New Richmond, Ohio, and . . . will be used to provide ancillary services, in PJM’s frequency regulation market. It will joi...
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Follow The Money: Battery Powered Train?
The Independently Powered Electric Mobile Unit (IPEMU), . . . can operate totally independently in places, . . . moving hundreds of tons, using only Batteries, . . . where adding a wire might be costly, . . . like a tunnel or underpass, but it still...
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Tablet App Displays Electric Usage
Tablet App displays Electric usage Energy Management System
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Electric 3-Wheeler: Spira4U
Spira4U: Electric 3-wheeler built from foam and honeycomb composite.
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Nh Electricity Prices Going Up
NH electricity prices going up with no solution in sight http://www.wmur.com/...-sight/29873194
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Printing An Electric Car
Developing physical products takes Time, Money, and Waste, . . . in the prototyping stage. Rapid prototyping using 3D printers can help form ideas into real products, . . . or help developers understand design flaws in the physical prototype. The Isr...
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200-Mile Electric Car Confirmed By Gm
This $30,000.-, 200-mile EV has piqued peoples interest, and . . . knowing that it is real is exciting. 10-09-2014 Source: 200-Mile Electric Car Confirmed By GM
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$6800 Twike Velomobile
TWIKE, a 50 MPH human-electric hybrid, has been in production for nearly 20 years. Lightweight construction enables low energy consumption of 4-7 kWh/ per 100 km. . . . A single solar collector, of 5 sqm, can produce that much energy.. 09-14-2014 Ao...
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Electric Tuk Tuk
Naveen Rabelli is an electrical engineer from India, . . . built himself an all-electric, solar-powered Tuk Tuk, . . . that he plans to drive from his home in India all the way across, . . . . . . Asia, . . . . . . the Middle East, . . . . . . Europe,...
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California: All-Electric School Bus
A solar-fueled, . . . 50-passenger, . . . type-D, . . . electric school bus, had a verbal approval, one day after first inspection. 08-24-2014 Source: California: All-Electric School Bus
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Solar: German Cargo E-Bikes
The German government is spending some . . . €13 million on e-bike technology, . . . to replace local trucks with Electric cargo bikes. The measure may prevent: . . . traffic jams, . . . parking problems, . . . fossil fuel use, while . . . increasing...
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2014: Bargain Basement Electric Car
2014 Mitsubishi MiEV: Bargain basement electric car = $23K The big news for 2014 is the MiEV's new low price . . . $22,995. The existing federal tax credit of . . . -$7,500. for all-electric vehicles brings that down to . . . -----...
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Electric Pick-Up Truck
Powerplaza's Pickup "PEACE, . . . a 1/2 ton electric, . . . is optimized for city driving. 08-08-2014 Source: Electric Pick-up Truck
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Ev: Ishare & E-Born-3
The iShare is a new concept of urban vehicle designed by, . . . Applus IDIADA as a demonstrator of . . . our complete vehicle development capabilities. e-born-3
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Worlds 3 Largest Taxi Fleets
By this summer, China will be home to the top . . . 3 largest electric taxi fleets in the world, . . . specifically Shenzhen, Beijing, and Nanjing. Currently, the majority of taxis in China run on LNG, and . . . natural gas spot prices recently hittin...
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China: Transportation Battery Storage
A123 went bankrupt in 2012 and . . . was acquired last year by Wanxiang Group, . . . which agreed to pay $257 million for A123's automotive battery business and . . . related assets in a bankruptcy auction. A123's customers had included:...
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Utility: Open-Source Code
U.S. utilitiers: . . . . . . Duke Energy, . . . . . . Accenture, . . . . . . Alstom, . . . . . . Ambient, . . . . . . Echelon, . . . . . . S&C Electric and . . . . . . Verizon . . . to connect: . . . . . . smart meters, . . . . . . solar inverters,...
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Northeast Usa, Renewables
Most homes in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, . . . heat their water using high-mass Oil furnace. . . . All summer these Oil furnaces must stay on, . . . . . . sporadically firing, to heat domestic hot water. Solar hot water counters this situ...
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New Electric Motor
Mitsubishi MiEV 300 Mitsubishi Electric's, . . . new 60 kW (80 horsepower) electric motor, . . . with an INTEGRATED silicon carbide inverter, and . . . has Parallel cooling ducts for the motor, . . . sitting within a much smaller unit. The new m...
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Heatworks Model 1
Tankless water heater utilizes a breakthrough in water heating technology.
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