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DOJ suit stirs talk of Senate spill bill
The Justice Department's oil spill lawsuit filed Wednesday provided a stark reminder that Congress has failed to pass legislation addressing a number of issues that...
Senate votes to extend ethanol subsidy for 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday voted in favor of a one-year extension of the ethanol tax credit and the ethanol import tariff at existing rates, despite...
U.S. Justice Department sues BP, 8 other companies in Gulf oil spill
AP - The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster in an effort to recover billions of dollars from the largest...
No tipping point for polar bears' Arctic ice, says new study
IT will be little consolation to hungry polar bears in northern Manitoba, Canada, who have had to wait weeks longer than usual for sea ice to form on Hudson Bay, but their...
Fox News bureau chief told staff to cast doubt on climate change
Fox News D.C. Bureau Chief Bill Sammon e-mailed staffers last December to instruct them not to assert that the "planet has warmed (or cooled)" without...
U.S. at risk of rare earths supply disruptions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States risks major supply disruptions of rare earth metals used in clean energy products unless it diversifies its sources of the...
People shooting at wind turbines in Michigan, elsewhere
Seems shooting bullets at wind farms is nothing new. The Michigan incident is just the latest episode of upset people taking out their anger on defenseless nacelles,...
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Argonne battery innovation hub announced
Friday the Department of Energy established a new, $120 million center for battery research with an ambitious goal of making batteries for electric vehicles and electric...
GM-backed Envia claims huge advance in cheaper, better batteries for 300-mile EVs
Looking for signs that the automotive landscape may be changing sooner than most people realize? Here's one. Envia Systems, a start-up battery company that counts...
A123 will supply battery packs for BMW hybrids
Lithium-ion battery-pack maker A123 Systems, whose customers include General Motors, Fisker and ALTe, will make battery packs for two new BMW hybrid vehicles this year....
Report: Toyota looking to commercialize solid state Li-ion battery in 2015-2020
The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. and its partners the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization have devised a...
A123 to supply batteries for all-electric Chevy Spark
The courtship between A123 Systems and GM didn’t really work out before, but the two are giving it another try. GM on Wednesday named the lithium-ion battery maker as the...
Volvo C30 Electric to participate in wireless charging project
Volvo has announced that its C30 Electric will participate in an inductive charging project called Continuous Electric Drive (CED) that is being set up by Belgian...
Toyota unveils solid-state battery prototype
Toyota unveiled a prototype of its all-solid-state battery, the latest entrant in a technology that could become a big deal. In solid state batteries, a liquid electrode...
EPA says Nissan Leaf range is 73 miles
The EPA has come out with its fuel economy ratings for the Nissan Leaf electric sedan, which goes on sale in December in 5 states. EPA labeled the car the best in its...
First full range test of Nissan LEAF yields 116.1 miles
Most regular PluginCars.com readers know that Nissan's quoted range for the LEAF is about 100 miles. But as Nissan has said-and as many regular EV drivers know-the...
Study indicates high-speed flywheels are competitive energy storage system for fuel cell hybrids
Reed Doucette and Malcolm McCulloch at the University of Oxford (UK) have compared high-speed flywheels, batteries, and ultracapacitors on the bases of cost and fuel...
A123 Systems Opens Li-ion Automotive Battery Manufacturing Plant in Michigan
A123 Systems announced the grand opening of the largest lithium ion automotive battery production facility in North America, which it calls the largest, based on available...
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