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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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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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San Diego, California – Impatience drives the materials science research of Shyue Ping Ong. The professor of nanoengineering says the world cannot afford to wait for a slow trial and error approach to discover new materials that could be used to build more energy-efficient technologies. The crisis of global climate change demands a faster and better answer. Ong was recently

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You know Top Gear, right? The UK car show with a trio of presenters who hate fuel-efficient cars, think electric cars are useless and like to scream around airfields in gas-guzzling supercars? James May has always been a little different. He often drives to the studio in a 1.2-liter Fiat Panda minicar, for instance, and last year he circumnavigated the

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In an example of just how wrong stereotypes can be, the recent move by the Ohio State Senate to freeze the state’s renewable standard, along with its energy efficiency program, at 2014 levels for the next two years, is being strongly opposed by a number of (very possibly Republican) faith leaders in the region. Not really a surprise to anyone

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Can you really call any activity that happens in the world of business “bullying”? I’m not too convinced that’s ever the right term — after all, business is business, as the phrase goes. And apparently Tesla Motors is all about business — at least according to Ecotricity’s founder Dale Vince. The Ecotricity head recently made the comment that the very

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Yesterday, an almond grove in California’s Central Valley hosted the opening of the world’s largest iron-chromium redox flow battery. Originally pioneered by NASA, these flow batteries are emerging as a promising way to store many hours of energy that can be discharged into the power grid when needed. Traditionally, electric generation follows the demands of the daily load cycle. But

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While we love home solar systems for saving money and reducing energy demand from the grid, it’s not the only way to lower the impact of your home and reduce your cost of living. There are number of other energy saving solutions, both solar and non-solar, that fall under the scope of home improvement projects, but sometimes, it’s the most

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VIA has acquired Prodigy Engineering, an electric vehicle design, engineering and prototyping company. Prodigy has been under contract with VIA for an undetermined time already to prototype new vehicle models for the company’s expanding portfolio. “This acquisition expands VIA’s talent base with a dedicated, talented engineering team to focus on VIA’s product development and vehicle testing,” said VIA Motors’ CEO

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With Memorial Day fast approaching, it’s a good time to begin thinking about ways to save energy and water this summer in order to produce real, measurable benefits for you and the planet — as well as help take stress off the power grid and prevent blackouts. Meanwhile, forecasts from the National Weather Service suggest the large portions of the

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