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Future May Involve Getting Paid to Charge Your Plug-in Vehicle
Green Lifestyle  (tags: electric, cars, free, energy, eco-friendly, sustainable, interesting, green, conservation, environment, wind, turbines, greenliving, globalwarming )

Tom
- 23 days ago - reuters.com
In West Texas and Illinois, electric customers are being paid to use electricity. With the growth of wind energy in these areas, electric companies are producing more energy -- especially during off-peak hours -- than they can use with no way to store it.
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As Hybrid Cars Gobble Rare Metals, Shortage Looms
Green Lifestyle  (tags: hybrid, electric, car, mining, shortage )

Kirsten
- 83 days ago - news.yahoo.com
"Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgets and consumer goods."
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Who Killed The Electric Car?   video
Green Lifestyle  (tags: electric, car, oil, fast, zero, emissions, gas, auto, health, cool, sexy, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, sustainable, technology, healthy, globalwarming, energy, CoolStuff )

Gregory
- 365 days ago - youtube.com
Are we addicted to looks and fast speeds of gas cars? Electric cars were manufactured in the 1970s. Then the EV-1 was pulled, canceled and sent to the car crusher. No bailout for auto industry until the electric cars return to consumers.
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Utility Company Experiments With Electric Trucks, Soy Fuels
Green Lifestyle  (tags: utilities, hybrids, electric, soy fuels, biofuel, Con Edison, trucks, experiment )


- 513 days ago - earth911.org
Con Edison, the utility company that serves New York City, has announced that its 1,700 trucks will be running bio-diesel based on soy, and that 50 of its trucks will be replaced by hybrids this year.
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Killing the Electric Car, Again: Part I
Green Lifestyle  (tags: electric, cars, BEVs, Battery Electric Vehicles, CARB, zero-emission vehicle )

Blue
- 620 days ago - gristmill.grist.org
In killing Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) the first time, they put off progress on this front for a decade. Now they are preparing, at their March 27 meeting, to kill BEVs a second time and probably waste another decade. We don't have another decade.
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Silicon Valley Plans to Become the "Detroit of Electric Cars"
Green Lifestyle  (tags: auto, hybrid, Greenliving, family, vehicles, electric, car, silicon, environment, eco-friendly )

Rebecca
- 745 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
I think what we're looking at is not something that can be done in a normal way. . . . It needs an Internet approach, a Google approach." Agassi noted. "In the valley, we know how to do technology disruption. We know how to do business models, how to deve
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