Luxury automaker Daimler of Germany together with Italy’s largest electricity producer, Enel, plan to roll out more than 100 electric vehicles and 400 charging stations for testing in Rome, Milan and Pisa by 2010. Executives from the companies agreed last week that Daimler will supply and […] Read more »
Electric-Vehicle Makers Struggle, Seek Aid Along With Detroit: Representatives from the EV industry sprang to action in Washington, D.C. last week before executives from Detroit’s Big Three arrived, calling for subsidized loans, expanded tax credits, a national push for development of advanced vehicle batteries, and more government purchases of electric cars. Read more »
Shai Agassi, the founder and CEO of electric vehicle infrastructure startup, Better Place could create an electric vehicle infrastructure that would scatter charging spots and battery swapping stations across the nation during the president’s first term, he said Thursday night — at a cost of $100 billion. Read more »
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Search engine giant Google and conglomerate GE have announced a partnership to collaborate on energy policy and technology, including pushing for a smarter electricity grid, cleaner power generation and greener transportation. GE’s CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt made the announcement from […] Read more »
Tuesday marks General Motors’ 100-year anniversary as a car maker. This auspicious date is being noted all over the automotive world and is even making its presence felt in “civilian” publications like the New York Times. A lot of the press is not just about where […] Read more »
I attended a mixer for entrepreneurs in San Francisco organized by “STIRR”:http://www.stirr.net/about called “Founder Hacks II”:http://www.stirr.net/. These events are cool beacuse at each mixer, STIRR invites a few repeat founders to get up and share one of the “success hacks” they’ve learned along the way with […] Read more »
Which of the three rumored deals – CBS-WallStrip, Bebo-Yahoo or Google-Feedburner – will come true? Take the poll. If you think two out of three are going to happen, let us know your pick (in comments of course.) Read more »
Updated: The ink on the Microsoft-TellMe Networks deal isn’t even dry, and we are already seeing some key executives leaving the company. Gary Clayton, the chief creative officer of TellMe and the man who was at TellMe’s helped develop the critically acclaimed mobile search application is […] Read more »
OK, I decided to wait until I had a chance to play with it for a day before posting about MSN Desktop Search, especially since it has been posted on about 10,000 web sites. I loaded it up yesterday morning and let it set off indexing […] Read more »
Wonder what the big boss does on weekends? Why, he takes out his Wally 118 which only set him back just over $24 million. Accomodations are luxurious as you would expect with a master stateroom, guest stateroom, and 3 crew cabins. The Wally will cruise along […] Read more »
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