Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement. Source: KPMG.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We And oil only seems cheap. We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. No one can make that promise.

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2024

It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. Instead, the standard was developed by IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard , doubling the bandwidth of the existing PCI standard—and released in the wild not long before HP and Compaq merged in 2002.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By 2002, BYD had become one of the top four manufacturers worldwide - and the largest Chinese manufacturer - in each of the three rechargeable battery technologies (Li-Ion, NiCad, and NiMH), according to a Harvard Business School case study of the company. "Its a completely different business model."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Those same types of efficiency improvements are "feasible at large scale even without a lot of equipment. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNETs Green Tech blog.

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