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What’s the Driving Force Behind China’s Great Green Leap Forward?

This morning another China electric vehicle partnership has emerged: called the New Energy Sustainable Transportation International Alliance, the group includes auto parts maker Eaton, IBM, development firm AECOM, automaker Beiqi Foton Motor Co., lithium ion battery maker MGL and electric motor producer Broad Ocean. Read more »

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Green Overdrive Video: Al Unser Jr. Gets ZAPped

While electric vehicle maker ZAP has had its fair share of less-than-stellar press, we took a road trip up to Santa Rosa to check out what the company is actually producing. We found a manual SUV electric taxi, a low-speed Zappy scooter and Al Unser Jr.! Read more »

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ZAP, the Santa Rosa, Calif.-based developer of low-speed electric vehicles, says it has closed a deal to buy a 51 percent stake in China’s Zhijiang Jonway Automobile Co. for $29.03 million in cash. Read more »

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As the doors of the metal fabrication company Integrity Manufacturing closed last week, so did the funding prospects behind a manufacturing plant that would make Zap electric vehicles in Kentucky and supposedly deliver 4,000 green jobs. But like a green zombie that just won’t die, Zap […] Read more »

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Remember Integrity Manufacturing? It was a metal fabrication company that had a partnership with electric vehicle maker ZAP to build a new assembly plant in Franklin, Ky. The deal had clearly been having issues over the past couple of months, as Integrity Manufacturing told the local […] Read more »

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More than 70 applications have been submitted to the Department of Energy seeking loans under its Advanced Auto Loan program, which aims to help companies build the next-generation of cleaner vehicles, a DOE spokesperson told us on Wednesday. The program was created under Section 136, of […] Read more »

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UPDATED: Another project from electric car developer ZAP looks like it’s hit the rails (hat tip AutoblogGreen). The penny stock company is more than a few pennies short on a deal to build a manufacturing plant in Kentucky, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. Integrity Manufacturing, ZAP’s […] Read more »

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Venturi Automobiles, the Monaco-based maker of luxury electric cars, says it is looking to build an assembly plant for electric vehicles in the Ouest Park zone near Sablé-sur-Sarthe in France’s Loire Region, where Venturi was founded in 1984. The plant is scheduled to open at the […] Read more »

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YouTube Charging for “Promoted” Video Placements? Advertising sources say “promoted” video slots are regularly negotiated into ad deals on the site. (Silicon Alley Insider) Brightcove Partners with Five and OMS; video platform does separate deals with the UK terrestrial broadcaster to incorporate ad-supported video, and creates […] Read more »

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Detroit Electric has ditched its original joint venture between ZAP and China Youngman Automobile Group and is now promising an affordable electric car by the end of 2009. The Netherlands-based company, led by CEO and majority shareholder Albert Lam, says it is looking to Malaysia to […] Read more »

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Zap, maker of too-cute three-wheeled electric cars, has just landed a deal to set up its manufacturing plant in Kentucky. The Bluegrass State’s governor Steve Beshear just announced the deal for a brand-new assembly plant in Franklin, Ky., which is reported to cost over $84 million […] Read more »

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Brian Conley, creator of the citizen journalist web news program Alive in Baghdad, was detained along with his friend Jefferey Rae in Beijing on Tuesday, August 19. According to Free Tibet 2008, Conley and Rae were in China taking photos and video of a recent protest […] Read more »

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The ever-evolving saga of the electric car company ZAP Motors has added a new chapter today. The maker of the three-wheeled, all-electric Xebra, has appointed Eqbal Al Yousuf as Chairman of the Board. Al Yousuf is President of Dubai’s Al Yousuf Group, a business conglomerate based […] Read more »

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Sick and tired of all these electric vehicle production delays? Need an electric car now? Got at least $10,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Well, don’t worry, there are several models available for purchase right this instant! But while all of these electric options have […] Read more »

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A recent podcast from CNet featured Michael Breus, a psychologist and sleep specialist.   Dr. Breus discussed some common misnomers regarding sleep and its effect on those around us. Getting adequate sleep is foundational to being successful in today’s world.  Consider the following important factors regarding […] Read more »

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With an increasing dependence on distributed software, and web-based applications the portability of personal and corporate data is becoming an increasingly important issue for all users, but more so for web workers in particular. Open Data philosophies have begun to coalesce around essays such as the […] Read more »

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Regular readers know I’ve been slowly migrating from a hosted Exchange plan for my e-mail over to Google’s Gmail service mainly due to their IMAP offering. The delay in my move is mainly due to moving mail from one service to another; when I have time […] Read more »

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What weighs less then 3 pounds, is smaller than the MacBook Air yet has almost all of the same hardware components?  That would be the newly announced Fujitsu P1620, of course.  The P1620 is the update to the P1610 that I used for a long time […] Read more »

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Today Panic released Transmit version 3.6. It’s been over 18 months since 3.5 was released (though there have been multiple smaller version releases between then). The biggest new feature in 3.6 is the addition of Amazon S3 support which undoubtedly has been one of the bigger […] Read more »

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I have read that Apple is shrinking its 85W Power Adapter for the MacBook Pro to a more manageable size.  I remember first getting my MacBook Pro, an upgrade from a TiBook, and noting the size of the power brick.  I thought it was laughable that […] Read more »

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So Verizon Wireless confirmed the speculation this morning of its deal to offer the equivalent of YouTube lite — select, approved content — through its VCast service. The deal is big news because the size of the companies involved, but this particular agreement is really just […] Read more »

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Business 2.0 covers blogging entrepreneurs in its latest cover story, calling the upstarts “Real businesses, with real revenue streams from real advertisers — not overhyped next big things with pick-a-number valuations based on selling out someday to some overenthusiastic big-media sugar daddy.” Writers Paul Sloan and […] Read more »

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Although this announcement is really geared towards Tablet PC OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturers), it grabbed my attention by explaining a little more how both passive and active digitizers work on Tablet PCs. InPlay’s subsidiary, FinePoint Innovations, has a new battery-free digital pen, the MP820, that uses […] Read more »

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Chicago leads the Houston Astros 2-0 (boo hiss) in the World Series with the next 3 games playing in Houston starting tonight.  Game 3 is already embroiled in controvery here in Houston with a mandate that the MLB officials passed down this afternoon.  Minute Maid Park […] Read more »

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I just returned from Michigan, after spending a brief but absolutely enjoyable time with my sister, my two lovely nieces including a six week old, my brother-in-law and my mom! Well, you have heard stories about Jewish moms. Indian moms are times ten. She cooked, and […] Read more »

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The Wall Street Journal reports that SBC Communications will build an Internet phone service for 50,000 Ford Motor Co. employees in 110 locations, making it one of the largest such contracts ever. This is one of the largest corporate VoIP deployments, and hopefully this will meet […] Read more »