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I have my pet peeves.  I really hate roller-bags, people not walking down escalators, and discovering that Flex Fuel has been around for over 20 years and nobody bothered to implement it.  My feelings are not limited to Flex Fuel, but all abandoned fuel economy technologies all together.  The fact that a nation as [...]

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The Paris Auto Show is set to kick off at the end of this week and with it comes hot anticipation for a number of new, next-gen vehicles. Venturi Automobiles has taken the wraps off its latest car, the Volage, jointly developed with Michelin. The Monaco-based electric-car maker and French tire giant Michelin have [...]

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We worried last week that the credit crunch would hurt cleantech, and especially ethanol. Now this week there are two more additions to our ethanol death watch map, Visions Fuels in Iowa and Oklahoma Sustainable Energy, embedded below . In both cases the financial crisis on Wall Street was blamed for drying up investments. [...]

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General Motor’s vice chairman Bob Lutz is an outspoken guy — he’s not afraid of voicing is opinion on issues like how he doesn’t agree with the carbon theory of climate change (fun). Lutz also isn’t shy at offering his opinion on electric vehicle companies, specifically Shai Agassi’s startup Better Place — he told [...]

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Chinese solar module maker Suntech announced today that it is moving into the U.S. market in a big way with the acquisition of commercial solar integrator startup EI Solutions and the formation of a joint venture with solar financier MMA Renewables . Suntech also says it will be expanding its dealer network across the [...]

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