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Worldwatch Institute report finds global energy intensity increased in 2010 for second year in a row

Green Car Congress

Global energy intensity—defined as total energy consumption divided by gross world product—increased 1.35% in 2010, the second year of increases in the context of a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article from the Worldwatch Institute.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. From the article: “The goal is to make it easier for consumers and communities to get started with E.V.’s. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. By Jim Motavalli for the New York Times.

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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

Green Car Congress

It might be that we see quite a dramatic reduction in replacing the capacity and of course that will have an impact, eventually, on price.”. That will prevent any short-term price spike even if depletion surpasses new production. A sharp rise in oil prices would spur new investment and new drilling.

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CPCA expects China Apr NEV retail sales to fall 8.4% from Mar to about 500,000 units

CN EV Post

In April, the price war in China's auto industry gradually receded and consumers returned to rational consumption, easing the wait-and-see sentiment, the CPCA said in the report today. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost. This is slightly higher than the 543,000 units announced by the CPCA on April 11.

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China’s economic stimulus to spark robust copper consumption in 2024 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Demand from China’s green energy sector, notably for electric vehicles and power infrastructure, is expected to underpin copper prices. As the country ramps up its economic stimulus, imports of unwrought copper, copper products, and ores are projected to increase in anticipation of higher demand.

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China EV industry sell-off creates opportunity, says Morgan Stanley

CN EV Post

Shares of major Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers have generally suffered a sell-off so far this year, as the sector's weak sales at the start of the year and recent widespread price wars have raised investor concerns.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

This Christian Science Monitor article takes an in-depth look at an age. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Quote from the article: “Investors, too, are excited. Yet in the United States and China, automakers’ caution, weak price. percent of $1.9

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