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Photos: Tesla Roadster Sport: If you want an electric sports car and the Tesla Roadster isn’t fast or expensive enough for you, here’s what an extra $20,000 can get you. — Jalopnik Palin on Obama Energy Plan: Soon-to-be-ex governor of Alaska Sarah Palin says in an […] Read more »

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Andy Grove on Industry Transformation: Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, says the auto industry “today is as vertical as the computer industry was before the PC,” and warns that government efforts to protect the viability of General Motors may be as detrimental to innovation […] Read more »

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Smarter PC Power Management: A new webcam application called PecoBOO uses facial recognition — rather than mouse movements — to determine whether or not there is a user in front of the PC. If the user moves away, after 15 minutes, the computer goes into its […] Read more »

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DOE Dole Doesn’t Come Cheap: To score a $43 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy last week, energy storage company Beacon Power spent $1 million over three years filling out 96 forms. “Considering the company only earns $68,000 in revenue, it’s a miracle Beacon […] Read more »

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Solyndra Snags $238M Umwelt Deal: Solyndra, which makes cylindrical, thin film photovoltaic systems, has won a supply deal with Germany-based solar integrator Umwelt-Sonne-Energie GmbH worth up to $238 million through 2013. — Press Release Tesla Overseas: Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the right-hand-drive electric Roadster will […] Read more »

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10:30 a.m.: The Michael Jackson funeral has begun. Watching CNN.com Live feed with Facebook integration. Facebook reports 6,000 status updates/minute, on a more global scale than what they saw with live Obama Inauguration coverage. CNN doesn’t have audio from the Staples Center, switching to MSNBC. 10:35: […] Read more »

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Smart Grid Challenge: Can competing smart grid models “challenge and complement one another, or will they be driven by infighting—over standards, regulations, federal investment dollars, etc.?” — Solve Climate Not Cheap, But Financed: For those that can’t scrounge together $109,000 to buy a luxury electric Roadster […] Read more »

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Obama on Climate Bill Opposition: “Are there going to be nay-sayers? Absolutely. Are there going to be short-term instances where you can get political gain by scaring the bejesus out of people and telling them that their electricity rates are going to go up a thousand […] Read more »

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EPA Grants California Emissions Waiver: The U.S. EPA today granted California a long-sought waiver to set tougher tailpipe emission limits than federal standards, a key step in the Obama administration’s plan to mandate higher MPGs nationwide. — NYT’s Green Inc. China Loosens Hybrid Rules: China has […] Read more »

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Developing Countries Eye Efficiency: “Emerging markets are waking up to the fact that using energy more wisely puts money in consumer wallets, can help smooth out trade deficits and is better for the planet in terms of reducing carbon emissions.” — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Nitrogen Dioxide […] Read more »

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Free Trade and Climate Change: Making trade more free could lead to more carbon dioxide emissions as a result of increased economic activity, but more trade could also help to curb climate change by increasing the availability of clean technologies, according to a new report from […] Read more »

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Farm Groups Win Battle for Offset Oversight: In a major victory for agriculture groups and defeat for environmental organizations that hoped the EPA would win authority to set rules for agriculture-based carbon offsets, lawmakers agreed last night to give the lead oversight role to the Agriculture […] Read more »

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Cash for Clunkers Fraud, Already: The Department of Transportation warns consumers and dealers to watch out for scammers implying you need  to register with them to be eligible for vouchers under the new cash for clunkers program. “This is completely untrue.” — The Truth About Cars […] Read more »

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Uncle Sam vs. Venture Capital Want to get funding from the federal government? Keep in mind that its objectives are different from those of venture capitalists, and explaining how your project meets political goals is just as important as highlighting technological advances and financial security. — […] Read more »

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We’d like to say thanks to this month’s jkOnTheRun sponsors. Fuze Meeting: HD Meetings – From Fuze Meeting Best in Cell Phones: The Best Cell Phone Deals are Here! Read more »

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Quest for Corn-Free Gas: Some SUV and boat owners in Florida are more than willing to drive out of their way to fill up at stations that sell biofuel-free gasoline, looking for “the extra mpgs that come from ditching ethanol.”Autobloggreen, Florida Today Co-Ops Strike Out Against […] Read more »

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Thaw Nears for Frozen Climate Bill?: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has come close to an agreement on the energy and climate bill with Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, who earlier this week warned of a rural Democrat “revolt” over the legislation if not […] Read more »

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I wish more handset makers would simply include a stand with their phones. Very few do, but as we consume more video content on our mobile devices, there’s a greater need for some type of stand solution. Seskimo offers one called the Crabble, and I’d say […] Read more »

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Riversimple Aims to Launch Open Source Hydrogen Car: Riversimple will make engineering designs for the hydrogen car it unveiled today in London available online in order to allow local manufacturing in small plants. — BBC German Solar Firms Eye North African Solar Project: A consortium of […] Read more »

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Evolution Solar Shopping for Startups: Evolution Solar has announced that it is searching for a suitable acquisition of an existing solar company, preferably one that’s involved in sales and distribution, but which lacks an expansion plan. — PV Tech AEP Signs Up for Solar: Ohio utility […] Read more »

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DOE Dole Too Slow, Says Chu: Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he’s “turning up the heat” on stimulus programs in areas including fossil energy and electricity transmission that “don’t feel the sense of urgency that they should feel” to get cash out the door quickly. — […] Read more »

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DOE Details More Funding Opps: The Department of Energy today detailed some of how more than $300 million in investments funded by the stimulus package and the agency’s annual appropriations will be divvied up among clean energy technologies including carbon capture from coal, solar power and […] Read more »

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Looks like the Moblin development team is keeping busy. Version 2.0 of the Linux-based mobile operating system for netbooks arrived last month and is already refreshed. I’m downloading it now and will likely run it off a Live CD on my MSI Wind. My little laptop […] Read more »

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GM Opens Up Battery R&D Center: Today General Motors opened its new Global Battery Systems Lab, a facility designed for testing the lithium-ion batteries planned for the Chevy Volt, plus other energy storage systems such as ultracapacitors. — CNET’s Green Tech DOE Needs Dose of Its […] Read more »

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Noble Nixes IPO Plans: Connecticut-based wind developer Noble Environmental Power has withdrawn its registration, filed last year, for a $375 million initial public offering. — Mass High Tech GM Suspends China Import Plans: Under pressure from the United Auto Workers union and members of Congress, General […] Read more »

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Mad for Mitsubishi’s iMiEV: Mitsubishi Motors rose the most in almost five months on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after a report it has started mass production of its electric iMiEV and will start selling it in Japan next month. — Bloomberg The Case for a […] Read more »

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Sparks Fly at Spark EV: The founder of Spark EV, who made headlines last year when he was arrested for not delivering paid-for electric vehicles, is back, and he’s angry. He’s just updated his site promising things “will get very interesting in the next month or […] Read more »

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Obama on Cybersecurity and the Smart Grid: The White House today published a road map for fixing U.S. cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and called for the U.S. to “implement, for high-value activities (e.g., the Smart Grid), an opt-in array of interoperable identity management systems to build trust for […] Read more »

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Recession Presents Opportunities for Auto, Battery Makers: Battery company and aspiring electric car maker BYD Auto and Tata Motors, maker of the ultra-efficient Tata Nano, are part of a larger trend of cost-cutting companies in China and India that are finding opportunities to expand into foreign […] Read more »

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Chrysler EV Plan: In proposals submitted to the Department of Energy as part of a bid for matching funds, Chrysler says it wants to spend $224 million developing plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, with an equal amount coming from its “partners” if the DOE approves the […] Read more »

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Supreme Court Pick’s Track Record: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion in Riverkeeper vs. EPA, siding with the fishes and against power companies in a big case that the Supreme Court just overturned. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital The State of State Energy Policies: As […] Read more »

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Digital Lumens Lands $6.3M: Digital Lumens, Inc., a quiet startup based in Salem, Mass. that’s working on high-efficiency, low-cost LED lighting, has raised $6.3 million in venture funding. — Mass High Tech Is Waxman-Markey Enough? Will the compromises that allowed the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill […] Read more »

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Oh Lutz: Reducing fuel consumption by mandating more fuel-efficient cars “is like attacking obesity by ordering everybody to wear size small clothing,” and other gems from former Chevy Volt frontman Bob Lutz on David Letterman last night. — Jalopnik Smart Grid for China: China’s power distribution […] Read more »

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What Was Detroit Thinking?: After decades of battling, complaining and maneuvering over fuel economy standards, why did carmakers decide to fall in line with a tough, new nationwide MPG standard this week? — New York Times Climate Outlook Gets Gloomier: New climate modeling suggests that without […] Read more »

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Second Life creator Linden Lab will announce on Wednesday that SL users have generated 15 billion voice minutes on their internal avatar-to-avatar VoIP service since the product was launched 18 months ago, and are now forecast to do 15 billion total voice minutes in 2009. By […] Read more »

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EU Gets Another Fuel Sipper: What’s not a hybrid, doesn’t have a plug and isn’t available in the U.S. — but gets 59 MPG? A new aerodynamic Corsa ecoFLEX from GM’s European brand, Vauxhall. — AutoblogGreen The Problem With Carbon Capture: Carbon capture and storage could […] Read more »

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Google remains well above its peers in domestic search share and total query volume, according to metrics giant comScore, which released its April 2009 U.S. Search Engine rankings today. The search giant snagged 64.2 percent of U.S. searches in April 2009, a rise of 0.5 percent […] Read more »

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What’s that ancient saying: Another day, another mobile VoIP client? That’s what it seems like these days, as everyone is creating, branding and selling mobile voice services over Wi-Fi. OK, the carriers are a notable exception to this group, but that’s sure to change over time. […] Read more »

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