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Fleet of 150 Renault ZOE EVs for smart solar charging project

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Renault, Europe’s leading electric vehicles manufacturer, and its Dutch economic partners Utrecht City Council, ElaadNL and LomboXnet signed a letter of intent in Paris to develop a Franco-Dutch framework of smart solar charging solutions for electric vehicles. Renault would supply a fleet of 150 Renault ZOE models through 2017 to the city.

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Report: EV factories may be leading utilities to dirtier decisions

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Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data.

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Tesla replays DOE loan nine years early

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The other 98% of the portfolio includes 19 new clean energy power plants that are adding enough solar, wind and geothermal capacity to power a million homes and displace 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year—roughly equal to taking a million cars off the road.

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President Obama Asks Congress for Carbon Cap Legislation; to Spend $15B per Year on Energy Technologies

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We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.

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Schaeffler opens new dedicated e-mobility plant in Hungary; expects €2-3B in annual e-mobility orders from 2022 on

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Schaeffler will increase the facility’s round-the-clock output capacity to 800,000 products a year by 2023, and has further plans to expand its annual output of finished products for premium partners in the auto industry to 1.8 million between 2026 and 2029.

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Germany’s auto industry – outrun by Tesla – to axe thousands more jobs

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If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. To make sure you find a trusted, reliable solar installer near you that offers competitive pricing on solar, check out EnergySage , a free service that makes it easy for you to go solar. Get started here.

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Perspective: My Participation in Project Driveway

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In addition to talking about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and other innovations in the auto industry, we communicate about everything from our pets and kids, to where we’re going on vacation. I’m not kidding! Everyone, though, waits to get the call to test drive. So what is it like to be in the Driver’s Circle of Project Driveway?

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