Global e-bike sales to exceed 47 million by 2018
Thursday, 29 March 2012 REM With sales expected to reach over 30 million units in 2012, electric bicycles are the world’s best-selling electric vehicles. Rapidly accelerating urbanization, the increasing need for low-cost tran...Boeing, Airbus and Embraer to collaborate on bio-fuel development effort
Friday, 23 March 2012 REMBoeing, Airbus and Embraer signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on the development of drop-in, affordable aviation bio-fuels.
TPI Composites and ALKE launch wind blade JV in Turkey
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 REMScottsdale, Ariz.-based TPI Composites, Inc. and ALKE ÃŽNÅžAAT, an engineering firm in Istanbul, have formed JV to manufacture large composite wind turbine blades in Turkey.
Forecaster says prices for lithium ion batteries will drop by a third by 2017
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 REM As the world's automobile manufacturers continue the evolution from the internal combustion to electric engine, improved manufacturing efficiencies and expanded access to lithium should help reduced t...
United Kingdom
Charging faster than Usain Bolt at Olympics this summer
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Toby Price The first GE electric charge points have been installed at the Olympic Venue in London (England) to support the 2012 Games fleet. After the event, the fast charging points will become part of the capi...
The nihilistic political campaign against the Chevy Volt…and against American industry
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Michael Hoexter Our blogger Michael Hoexter recently took a very satisfactory test drive in the US’s new Chevy Volt electric car. However, lower than expected sales and a fire after a crash test have been exploited...
United States
Renewables create jobs, expand businesses in Nevada says Senator Reid
Friday, 16 March 2012 REM United States Senator Harry Reid released a new report this week that puts a bright spotlight on the importance and benefits of federal and state policies to support the development of renewable energ...
United States
Ethanol helping to fuel economy, says RFA
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 REM According to analysis commissioned by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and published at the end of February, the production of an estimated 13.9 billion gallons of ethanol directly employed 90,20...
Cloud computing has a silver lining
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 Toby Price New research from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the UK concludes that companies could achieve annual energy savings running into the billions and annual carbon reductions by using cloud compu...
Siemens takes stock one year after Fukushima
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 Toby Price Coinciding with the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Siemens has published a paper examining how the Fukushima nuclear disaster has changed opinion in Germany and what the new ene...
ThermoEnergy to deploy ammonia recovery system in the Netherlands
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