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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Grove made it clear one thing was glaringly missing from Gore’s plea: dealing with our national petroleum addiction. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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Tesla and GM sign on to use supply chain emissions database

Teslarati

Vice President Al Gore at the COP28 climate conference this weekend. The database, dubbed Climate TRACE, was created by Gore’s global climate coalition in an attempt to keep close track of supply chain emissions, according to a report from Fortune. billion Tonnes CO2e100.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” Engineers have a huge opportunity to help leave the world a better, safer, and cleaner place than we inherited. There was no iPhone or Internet of Things. But everyone on Earth is a stakeholder in this.

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The Solangelist’s Vision Shines Brighter

Creative Greenius

That’s because my pals at SCE are burning a cleaner energy mix than the state is overall - and by leaps and bounds better than DWP of Los Angeles City. If I was in the actual city of Los Angeles, a lot more of my electricity would be made from Killer Coal and a lot less from clean, renewables.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA SA (2) FDX (2) FSLR (2) FedEx (2) First Solar (2) Ford (2) Ford Escape Hybrid (2) Ford Fusion Hybrid (2) GE (2) Global Solar (2) Government (2) HEV (2) Honda FCX Clarity (2) IBM (2) ITM.l (2) 2) Inconvenient Truth (2) JCI (2) MGA (2) NSANY (2) PGE (2) SB1.DE SZ (1) 6753.T

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Had national and economic security trumped the power of oil and auto companies, a large percentage of cars would run today on cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas. Tags: joe romm pickens plan t boone pickens al gore cng. A few billion dollars a week wouldn’t leave the country, and we would all understand the value of choice.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

Still, this is a time for celebration…however short a time said celebration should last before we all roll up our sleeves and begin the work of parlaying the gains in this legislative victory, as Al Gore said in a webinar from his Climate Reality Project on the IRA’s impacts.