The U.S. Department of Energy issued a report Tuesday that outlines how President Obama will achieve his goal of seeing 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. The answer: combine the stimulus funding, with fuel economy standards, and more incentives. Read more »
President Obama’s State of the Union address called for 80 percent clean energy by 2035. While laudable, and reachable, the goal excludes 72 percent of petroleum’s usage, and so far there are few good substitutes for petroleum as a transportation fuel. Read more »
Last week President Obama unveiled the big picture for U.S. clean energy policy. But this week begins the long saga to actually reach those goals, and the path forward will be wrought with twists and turns and compromises. Read more »
Energy Secretary Steve Chu laid out near- to long-term research and deployment plans to meeting goals set by President Obama in his state of the union speech. Aside from solar, electric cars and energy efficiency measures, Chu also is bullish about nuclear power. Read more »
Last night in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promoted jobs, high-speed rail and high-speed wireless access. I’m all for fast wireless broadband, but relying on wireless to solve this broadband gap is like relying on low-fat Twinkies to solve the obesity problem. Read more »
President Obama went out of his way to include natural gas in his definition of clean energy in the State of the Union last night, quietly pointing to the fact that coal is the real problem, and also bringing attention to the debate over natural gas. Read more »
President Obama addressed renewable energy briefly and early on in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night and unveiled a new U.S. clean energy challenge that said by 2035, “80 percent of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources.” Read more »
I reported earlier this week on Amazon’s new VM Import service, which some have described as a Hotel California for VMware images. Today, I received word from Amazon Web Services that it’s planning to address this issue, to a degree, as the offering evolves. Read more »
Will California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger be the next Obama Administration energy policy official? It’s just one idea that Schwarzenegger, who will step down from the governor role in a couple weeks, kicked around in an interview with the L.A. Times on Friday. Read more »
The Obama administration has just unveiled a proposal to require some of the biggest vehicles on the road — including school buses, fire engines, big rigs, large pickup trucks and vans — to slash fuel consumption and emissions by 10-20 percent between 2014 and 2018. Read more »
Move over, climate and energy wonks; this is shaping up to be a triple-feature week of the geeks. Steve Jobs talked energy and innovation with President Obama, Bill Gates poured $700,000 into the fight against Prop. 23, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu is heading to Google. Read more »
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S., an electric truck and van maker based in Kansas City, Mo. and backed by $32 million in stimulus grants, has become the great green hope for its loss-making parent company, the United Kingdom’s Tanfield Group. Read more »
Tesla’s IPO was all about expectations and innovations from a Silicon Valley startup that fancies itself a technology developer on the scale of Apple or Google. GM’s IPO will be about overcoming its recently-tumultous and century-old past, and about delivering as a manufacturing company. Read more »
PayPal is giving away $160,000 USD in prizes to the most innovative apps to use the
PayPal X Platform, judging based on app innovation and business potential, with additional awards honoring innovation in use of the eBay Developer API, integration with Yahoo and cross-border
payment systems. Read more »
Compact Power, a Michigan subsidiary of South Korea’s LG Chem, is starting to look like the player to beat in the competition to supply lithium-ion cells and battery packs for electric vehicles, having bagged deals with General Motors, Eaton and Ford. Read more »
The Obama administration has kicked off its electric car and battery offensive with a report laying out the facts and figures for its investments in advanced vehicles and batteries so far under the Recovery Act. Here’s the digit-by-digit highlights. Read more »
President Obama’s visit to Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City, Mo. last week was just a warm-up for what’s shaping up to be a full-on electric car and battery offensive by the White House this week. Read more »
Consumer Reports has tested the alleged reception problem on the new iPhone 4 and has confirmed it is indeed a function of the design of the phone’s antenna. The organization is refusing to recommend the iPhone 4 to consumers due to the severity of the problem. Read more »
Absent from Obama’s speech today at Smith Electric Vehicles was any mention of the energy bill now languishing in the Senate, in contrast to his speech at the government-backed factory site of solar startup Solyndra in May. Read more »
Sonic Solutions has signed up another retailer to use its RoxioNow streaming video service to deliver Hollywood content to a wide range of consumer electronics devices. Sears has agreed to a licensing deal through which it will offer movies and TV shows for rental or purchase. Read more »
Today on the Net: An analysis of what Google TV means to advertisers, Clearleap hits a milestone by topping 10 million cable subscribers and the U.K. Office of Fair Trade has decided against investigating the BBC’s Project Canvas. Read more »
Cloud encoding service provider Zencoder wants to support VP8 as soon as absolutely possible, and the company is excited about Google’s plans to open source the video codec at this week’s Google i/O developer conference in San Francisco. However, don’t count H.264 out just yet. Read more »
Summer is just around the corner, but don’t worry, there is a way you can get out, enjoy the summer and stay productive. With LogMeIn Free, you can access your work computer from anywhere, at anytime, for (as the name implies) free. Read more »
The Obama administration has just finalized the country’s first ever national regulation to curb greenhouse gas emissions and raise the bar on efficiency for new cars and trucks. The move could pushes automakers to incorporate more green technology into their lineups. Read more »
Panasonic started to sell its new line of 3D TVs through a partnership with Best Buy today, offering a bundle of a of 50-inch plasma TV, a 3D-capable Blu-ray player and a pair of glasses for around $2900. Consumers will also soon be able to buy […] Read more »
The Obama administration released its proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year this morning, and within the more than $3.8 trillion plan are several programs that could help shift the playing field for greentech startups and energy companies. To start, there’s direct support for the renewable […] Read more »
A national cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gasses might be in limbo, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama from announcing on Friday an emissions reduction target for federal operations. The president, fulfilling an executive order signed in October, said the federal government will reduce its emissions by […] Read more »
Duke Energy Jumps for Juwi’s 14MW Solar Project: “Power company Duke Energy said its commercial business unit, Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), agreed to buy a 14 megawatt Blue Wing Solar Project from Juwi Solar.” — Reuters UN’s Rajendra Pachauri Staying Put: “The chairman of the […] Read more »
UPDATED: President Obama will hold his first official State of the Union address this Wednesday starting at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST. The speech in front of a joint session of Congress is a little bit of a political ritual, but the current administration decided to […] Read more »
UPDATED Automakers got their green on today at Day 1 of the North American International Auto Show at Detroit’s Cobo Center, unveiling new hybrid concepts and announcing manufacturing plans for electric vehicles. Government officials and citizen protesters showed up too, respectively issuing praise for the industry’s […] Read more »
For the companies behind more than 180 greentech equipment factories around the country, today brings a couple billion reasons to celebrate: The Obama administration has just announced $2.3 billion in tax credits worth up to 30 percent of the costs for 183 manufacturing projects in 43 […] Read more »
Wow, I thought it was tough being a Time Warner Cable customer right now, but that was because I haven’t had the pleasure of forking over monthly payments to Cablevision, whose recent troubles with Scripps Networks make the Fox-TWC drama look like an episode of Sesame […] Read more »
NEA Closes Biggest Fund Since 2007: New Enterprise Associates said today it has closed a fund with nearly $2.5 billion in committed capital — the largest single fund raised since 2007. The VC firm began making investments from the fund in May and has already made […] Read more »
At NewTeeVee, we usually prefer to talk about the future rather than the past. In light of a decade coming to an end that brought us everything from BitTorrent to YouTube, we made an exception and chronicled the development of online video over the last 10 […] Read more »
Yhe Apple tablet isn’t going to be a tablet computer at all, really, according to the Quick PWN blog. If you believe Quick PWN contributor Hans’ inside sources, the Apple iSlate, as he maintains it will indeed be called, is more aimed at taking on the […] Read more »
