Bosch Makes €546.4 Bid for ersol Solar: German industrial conglomerate Bosch is offering 101 euros per share, a 68 per cent premium, in a takeover bid for ersol Solar Energy AG, which makes wafer-based silicon solar cells and is moving into the manufacture of thin-film modules – Cleantech Media.
Matt Damon Tests a Tesla: Matt Damon was spotted taking a Tesla prototype for a spin and even chatted about how much he loves the car, going into the problems of the first gen transmission but said “the 30-60 acceleration is like nothing else” – Autofiends (with pics).
Israeli Green Vision Raises €3.5M For Contaminants Detection: The money is from from the state-run Gabriel Lippmann Institute in Luxembourg and is for Green Vision’s technology which can detect contaminants in the air, water and ground – alarm:clock.
USPS Gets Rid of Gas Hungry FlexFuel Trucks: The U.S. Postal Service had been testing felxfuel vehicles in its larger ongoing experiment to save fuel and has found a 29 percent decrease in mileage with the flexfuel vehicles. The problem was they couldn’t find E85 and had to feed the hungry engines gasoline – Autoblog Green.
Is Going “Off the Grid” the New Black? Paul Kedrosky seems to think so and is glad that it is acceptable for people other than “nutter[s] in rural Montana” to join the trend. He maps “off the grid” in Google Trends to chart the movement – Paul Kedroksy’s Blog.
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