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Mark Modica: Chevy Volt 60-Day Return Makes Tax Credit Abuse Likely
General Motors has announced a 60 day money back guarantee policy for all new Chevy models, including the Chevy Volt. The move sets up a scenario where purchasers can buy a Volt, claim the $7,500...
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Seton Motley: Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds...
The Jurassic Press is missing much in their reporting on the $50 billion bailout of General Motors (GM). The Press is open channeling for President Barack Obama – allowing him to frame the bailout...
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Nissan Leaf range only 44 miles in hot weather; dealerships slashing price
The Nissan Leaf is a top player in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, but one major issue that sometimes plagues these vehicles is the battery — and the Leaf’s battey seems to be taking a lot of heat....
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Gilt-Trip: Scientists Add Gold to Boost Lithium Car Battery Range
Air-breathing lithium batteries that go far beyond the capacity of current power packs may be in the offing A rechargeable, air-breathing battery that can store up to 10 times the energy of today’s...
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Li Yang: Rare earth regulation justified
This week news came that “the World Trade Organization has finally agreed to investigate claims by the US, EU and Japan that China is unfairly strangling rare earth exports in order to favor its...
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Electric cars: How many miles will kill ‘range anxiety’?
Most electric car charges last longer than 95 percent of the trips made in the US, but ‘range anxiety’ is still a major drawback for many potential electric car buyers. How many miles will it take to...
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Peak Minerals: Shortage of Rare Earth Metals Threatens Renewable Energy
Not only are supplies of oil and natural gas under imminent threat of failing to meet demand for them, but so is a whole range of precious metals, along with indium, gallium and germanium and other...
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Picking Losers: Green Command Economy And The Electric Car Fiasco
Though nearly two times as many natural gas vehicles will be on the road at year’s end than plug-ins, the federal government is investing heavily in electric technology. Some experts wonder whether the...
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The rare earth riches buried beneath Greenland’s vast ice sheet
Small group of 17 elements is in extraordinary demand, but potential wealth must be balanced against environmental responsibilities Inside every wind turbine, inside computers, phones and other...
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Britain’s Electric Cars Fiasco
An electric car charging point that cost £6,018 to install has been used for just five hours since it was first installed in 2009. The charging point in Putney Leisure Centre car park, Dryburgh Road,...
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Rare-earth mining in China comes at a heavy cost for local villages
“Pollution is poisoning the farms and villages of the region that processes the precious minerals“ This is the dirty side of clean energy, electric cars (not including the enormous quantities of...
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Andrew Bolt: Carbon tax hits the Greens’ pet car
The Greens predicted great things for electric cars: Around the world electric vehicles (EV) are beginning to transform the way we move… EVs, along with increased investment in public transport, are...
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Electric Cars Face Bleak Prospects As Europe Sales Stumble
Every self-respecting automobile manufacturer in Europe is planning to launch an all-electric vehicle soon, but the fact that sales are dying on the vine points to an expensive and embarrassing debacle...
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Low oil prices could keep Obama’s electric car goals stuck in neutral
The electric car has run into several market cross winds that didn’t exist at the start of President Obama’s term, and these forces could slow or squash the car’s commercial aspirations. Since Obama...
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Sharyl Attkisson: Electric car boom in Indiana city goes bust
Elkhart, Indiana lost jobs faster than any other city in the country in 2009. Both Democrats and Republicans promised to re-energize manufacturing in the city, backing a new electric car plant. But as...
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Uh-huh… New Retrofit Kit can Turn Any Car into a Plug-In Hybrid
Dr. Charles Perry at Middle Tennessee State University continues driving toward success in the development of the plug-in hybrid retrofit kit for any car. Dr. Perry, his collaborators, and students are...
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Eye-roller: World’s First Wind-Powered EV Charging Station Installed in...
Critics of electric vehicles attack the claims that they are a truly green source of transport, due to the fact much of the electricity that they use to charge their batteries is generated in coal...
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Compressed Air Vehicle – Has the Electric Car Met its Match?
EV’s are so last season. Those of you into the latest and greatest clean energy technologies need to get yourself a car that runs on compressed air. The idea of an air powered car has been around for a...
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China Raises Rare-Earth Export Quota
China’s government eased its restrictions on rare-earth exports for the first time since 2005 in an apparent nod to a trade fight over Beijing’s tight global grip on production of the strategically...
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Henry Payne: The Volt economy
With sales nowhere near the predicted 45,000-per-year, General Motors halted production of “Obamacar” — the Chevy Volt — here for the second time this year as its inventory levels lag the industry...
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