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Coulomb sets up EV stations in Elk Horn, Iowa
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Watch out San Francisco, you’re not the only city striving to put electric cars on the road. Today, you’ll be joined by Elk Horn, Iowa, where Coulomb Technologies is installing EV charging stations.
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After a ribbon-cutting today, four ChargePoint stations will be available for public use in the small city between Des Moines and Omaha, thanks to support from Iron Eagle Technologies, the Danish Windmill, AmericInn Motels and the Elk Horn Service Station. Coulomb’s distributor Carbon Day Automotive also joined this group effort to bring clean renewable energy to Elk Horn.
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Tags: · clean transportation, Coulomb Technologies, Electric Cars, electric vehicle charging stations, Elk Horn, I-80 corridor, Iowa, Iron Eagle Technologies, Midwest, Nebraska
Wind, solar and batteries may power your portfolio, just don’t expect a rocket to riches
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
Before the recession put a stranglehold on most every investment, clean technology was hot. Nearly 80 percent of all the venture capital spent in 2008 went to clean, green investments. The industries slumped for much of 2009, but now investors are returning to clean industries.
Regular Americans are curious about these clean tech companies, too, and they’re asking their financial advisers about them, according to one survey.
What is clean tech? It refers to technologies made without generating significant pollution, which produce products that can replace non-renewable energy sources, like oil, and make us more energy-efficient. Think solar cells and wind-generated power, hybrid or electric cars, green buildings, desalinated water and a “smart grid” that will help businesses and home owners to connect with new sources of power, like wind farms and giant desert photovoltaic installation
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Tags: · Biofuels, Clean Edge, Cleantech Group, Electric Cars, green investment, green lighting, Green Tech Media, Greentech Media, hybrid cars, Morningstar, Solar Power, Wind Power, Winslow Management
Time to get an electric car?
By Deborah Wrigley
KTRK – Houston
There have been several attempts to build electric cars that can run at higher speeds and for several hours. Some have been more successful than others.
Last year’s record high oil prices boosted demand for the vehicles. And now, there are electric cars available, with limitations.
> Watch Now
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Tags: · Chevy Volt, Chrysler Eco-Voyager, Electric Cars, Houston, Houston Car Show, KTRK, Maria Borrego, Zen
California’s new auto emissions labels help sort out cleanest vehicles
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Just like you hunt for that Energy Star tag when examining a fridge or washer, people in California can now duck under the hood of any new 2009 model car to get an at-a-glance emissions rating.
 The Environmental Performance sticker, mandated to begin on Jan. 1 for all new model cars, will include two scores, one rating the car’s smog emissions and the other its greenhouse gas output. The air pollutants for the latter include carbon dioxide emissions, which make up the greatest volume of greenhouse gases. Gas engine cars emit nitrous oxides, methane gases, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and other emissions.
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Tags: · Air Resources Board, California, Electric Cars, Environmental Performance, Greenhouse Gases, Hybrids, smog
Heading to the luau in an electric car with Shai Agassi
By John DeFore
When last we mentioned electric-car entrepreneur Shai Agassi, the former software wunderkind’s grand plans had attracted commitments from the government of Israel but had no traction in the States.
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Tags: · Better Place, Electric Cars, Hawaii, Shai Agassi
California Clean Tech award goes to electric-car conversion kit maker
By John DeFore
While this past weekend’s Los Angeles Auto Show had autophiles lusting after tomorrow’s hot wheels, a very different California event just celebrated a company working to make yesterday’s cars a lot greener.
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Tags: · California Clean Tech Open, ELectraDrive, Electric Cars, electric drivetrain
Alternative fuels may strain water supply
By John DeFore
In the quest to ween cars and trucks off oil, alternative-fuel schemes may be heading for a roadblock they haven’t fully considered: water.
Public discussions of alternative fuels have rarely if ever touched on how much water might be needed to produce such fuel on a large scale. But researchers in Texas warn that it may be much more than you’d expect.
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Tags: · Alternative fuels, Biofuels, biomass, Electric Cars, Hydrogen, Methane
Cornell’s Team of 100 MPGers
By John DeFore
The New York State Fair began yesterday in Syracuse, and while many of us associate such events mainly with deep-fried food and concerts by (ahem) bands whose stars have faded, this fair may also debut a future star: An early version of an electric car whose makers think it could win a $10 million prize — and get 100 mpg.
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Tags: · Electric Cars
Nissan Announces It Will Offer An All-Electric Car By 2010
By John DeFore
Nissan Motor Company took the occasion of its financial-results stock exchange reporting (nearly $7 billion in profits from $90+ billion revenues in fiscal 2007) Tuesday in Tokyo to make an announcement of interest to those of us who don’t own stock. In 2010, the company plans to release an all-electric car in the United States and Japan, which should make it the first major auto company to do so.
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Tags: · Electric Cars, Nissan
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