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Johnson Controls' plan to build a $100M factory for stop-start auto batteries and a new natural gas-powered turbine from GE hold promise for energy efficient and emissions-busting power solutions.
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Google's multimillion bid to help fund residential solar projects, Proterra's $30 million boost for electric bus development and a nextgen fuel cell that looks like a refrigerator are among the stories in the news that caught our eye today.
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If there’s a common thread among the 170 premieres at this year’s Geneva Motor Show, it’s sustainable mobility -- as a press preview to the international event that opens Wednesday shows.
by Ted Grozier
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The question is no longer whether electric vehicles are coming, but "How fast?" and "Where first?" In a recently published report, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and RMI's Project Get Ready looked at the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. to see how they stack up in terms of EV readiness.
by Kelly Vaughn
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If you were to believe the mainstream media, the future of transportation is electric. But the conventional gas-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) won't be going away any time soon.
by Joel Makower
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The new Bloom Energy Server was touted far and wide last week as a game-changing fuel-cell device. We talked to some of the first owners of 'Bloom Boxes' to find out why they made the $700,000 purchase -- and whether it's right for your firm.
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The other day, I took a spin around your nation’s capital in what is being touted as the first affordable electric car that will find its way onto America’s roads: It’s the Coda.
by Marc Gunther
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Fuel efficiency and environmental concerns are expected to carry increasing weight in fleet purchasing decisions over the next decade, according to a new study, edging out the importance of brand value.
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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower
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What to make of this week's bankruptcy filing by General Motors? The beginning of the end? The end of the beginning? A death? Rebirth? Something in between?
by Joel Makower
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GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther provides an inside look at Fortune's Brainstorm Green Conference, which is he co-chairing, and comments by Paul Hawken on his work with Wal-Mart and Ford, Better Place's Shai Agassi and more.
by Marc Gunther
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The Obama administration has unveiled a $2.4 billion grant program to promote plug-in hybrid cars, which will travel 40 miles on a single electricity charge and 100 miles on a gallon of gas. You’ll rarely have to fill the tank if you don’t drive much. The only drawback, energy secretary Steven Chu indicated, is that if you don’t run the engine much, the battery gets weak, as he learned first hand some years ago.
by Marc Gunther
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AFS Trinity Power Corporation announced this week that it has upgraded its prototype for a high performance, high mileage green SUV with new technology to extend the vehicle's driving range.
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San Francisco gets all the credit in California for being sustainable, but Burbank has something up its sleeve: the West Coast's first hydrogen fuel cell bus.
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California-based Better Place is partnering with AGL Energy and financial advisory firm Macquarie Capital Group to bring its concept of an electric vehicle recharge grid powered by renewables to Australia.
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A nationwide transition to fuel cell powered vehicles would eventually severely curb carbon dioxide emissions, but will take time and money.
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The United States government and Volvo will extend a partnership to develop cleaner heavy duty trucks by three years.
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Over the next four years public and private entities can receive funding for new equipment to reduce emissions.