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Posts Tagged ‘California’

The California Energy Commission ran a substantial number of vehicles on methanol for years. I’m not sure what the materials of construction were for the tanks and fuel lines, but it couldn’t add much if anything to the cost of a car

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The great thing about having your company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, is that you never quite know what you’ll see on the street. There are lots of expensive cars like BMWs and Bentleys floating around.

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According to the California Highway Patrol’s Statewide Traffic Reporting System, in 2006, there were 36 car accident deaths in Bakersfield and 1256 traffic accident related personal injuries.

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Two hydrogen fuel cell hybrid buses hit the streets of Burbank, California in spite of the non-stop jokes from former late night TV star Johnny Carson.

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Only California has fuel – cell cars in any abundance, and there we’re talking a few hundred at most. And Connecticut (home to several fuel-cell companies) has a virtual abundance of them compared to other East Coast metropolises.

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———-At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines totaled 9410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind – power states, Iowa, California and Washington.

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The ITM Power HFuel hydrogen fueling station is getting ready for display at the Hannover Messe, in Germany and NHA Hydrogen Conference and Expo in Long Beach, California.

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Related Information: Nissan developing an electric car is charged without cables / The first service station for electric cars , and was opened in California / Th Pink arrived in Spain / Mitsubishi will have in their catalog cheapest variant i -MiEV … Plant soybean-based biodiesel, the first in ArgentinaThe other day the President of Argentina (Cristina Kirchner) had the first floor of biogas ..

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Consumer reports recently conducted a survey on the features consumer would want from an electric car .

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I’d tend to agree with him–the rebate for a Tesla seems to be pretty wasteful, as it’s not going to make the car more attractive to anyone.

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