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Alarm.com recently inked a deal with Pure Energies to more directly compete with one of its resellers, Vivint, in selling rooftop solar. The deal with Alarm.com is Pure Energies’ first partnership in the home security space, and likely won’t be the last. Although it also has its eyes on telecoms and HVAC dealers, home security is the big channel in

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Volkswagen has revealed the first technical details of the all-new Passat sedan and wagon, ahead of the cars’ unveiling in July and their public premiere at the Paris Motor Show in October. The eighth-generation European Passat will bring with it a range of new technologies and features, to ensure that even after 41 years and over 23 million sales worldwide,

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Tesla Motors is now the largest auto-industry employer in California — employing more than 6000 people within the state, with a further 500 jobs expected to be added to that figure before the end of 2014. That’s an impressive feat considering how young the company is. And an even more impressive feat when you consider the fact that Toyota has

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The German Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Federal Transport Minister, Katherina Reiche, refueled a fuel cell vehicle for the first time at the “Green Hydrogen Hub” (H2BER) of the Total multi-energy fueling station at Berlin-Schönefeld. The demonstration project is designed to produce “green” hydrogen from a surplus of wind and solar power using an electrolyzer, and to use solid

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CANNES, France (Bloomberg) — Renault has been forced to re-think its ambitious electric vehicle plans, a top executive said. “We’re not in a situation where the market has followed our forecasts,” Chief Performance Officer Jerome Stoll said. “People haven’t yet reached the point where they feel the need to have an electric vehicle for full daily use. People need to

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PARIS (Reuters) — PSA/Peugeot-Citroen CEO Carlos Tavares said the carmaker will decide in the next 12 months whether to continue working on electric vehicles with Mitsubishi Motors. Tavares told a parliamentary economic affairs committee today that the group needed to define a strategy to continue to offer electric vehicles to consumers. “It’s a strategy that will be rebuilt in the

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Despite the incredible adoption rate of all-electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S, makers of smaller EVs like the Smart Electric Drive and recently-updated Mitsubishi iMiEV are facing weak demand – which has led some people within Renault-Nissan to rethink the company’s strategy in re: an electric Renault Twingo. “We’re not in a situation where the market

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A new report called “Attacks on Renewable Energy Policy by Fossil Fuel Interests 2013-2014″ contains a detailed rundown of the money trail behind the fossil fuels vs clean energy battle. That’s not exactly new news to those of you following clean tech legislation, but before you file this away under D for Dog bites man, consider that the report was

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Nissan, the global leader in electric vehicle (EV) sales, achieved another milestone this month as Dallas residents Todd and Lisa Bolt made Nissan LEAF the first all-electric model to hit 50,000 sales in the U.S. The Bolt family took delivery of their black LEAF SL earlier this month at AutoNation Nissan of Lewisville. Thanks to enthusiastic owner advocates, robust public

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Do you miss Suzuki, yet? The company is an engineering powerhouse that builds some of the finest, most advanced motorcycles in the world – and their cars aren’t half bad, either! Sadly, poor sales meant the company was forced to stop selling cars in the US … but that doesn’t mean they’re gone. As if to remind American enthusiasts what

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