When it comes to green stimulus, the world is halfway done — and China and Japan lead in the race, according to a Tuesday report. But the United States is catching up, though not without some hiccups along the way.…
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When it comes to green stimulus, the world is nearly halfway done. That’s according to a report out this morning from Bloomberg…
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Green technology supporters who want to fight back against attacks on greentech government support might want to study up on the Washington…
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While U.S. venture capitalists have led in global greentech startup investment, it’s developing economies that have driven the green public markets in…
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It’s Friday — do you know what your Congress is doing? Here’s the latest out of Washington D.C. on greentech issues facing…
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Another week, another $53.5 million in Department of Energy green tech funding. Friday is a good day to recap the week’s green…
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Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu just finished a Tuesday morning press conference unveiling a White House report on…
Read MoreBiden: Stimulus Funds for Energy Innovation Are Working
According to Vice President Joe Biden, the tens of billions of dollars from the stimulus package invested in research and innovation for clean power, the smart grid, and advanced automobiles are working.…
Read MoreSmith Electric Vehicles Revs for Acquisition, IPO
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 MoreECOtality Unveils "Swiss Army Knife" of Telecom for Electric Car Charging
ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read described the company's new Blink smart charging stations for electric vehicles as a "Swiss army knife of telecommunication," designed to connect with local area networks, Wi-Fi, Zigbee and cell phone networks. Can Read build a business with these stations?…
Read MoreBy the Numbers: DOE's Electric Car Spending & Targets
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 MoreElectric Cars, Batteries Set to Get Some Obama Love
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.…
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Here we go again. After getting shot down by the Maryland Public Service Commission, Baltimore Gas and Electric is resubmitting a plan…
Read More43 More Winners Under DOE's High Risk Fund ARPA-E
Today the DOE has awarded $92 million for 43 new projects under the highly competitive ARPA-E program for high risk greentech research, marking the last of the ARPA-E grants to be funded under the Recovery Act.…
Read MoreHigh Speed Rail on Track to Reap Hefty Funds, But Faces Hurdles
What the Government Accountability Office describes as "palpable excitement" and an unprecedented gush of federal investment won't be enough to establish intercity high-speed passenger rail service in the U.S.…
Read MoreiPhone 4 and Sprint EVO 4G, Head-to-Head
The iPhone 4 has been officially outed, its specs shared. Having just purchased the Sprint EVO 4G, however, I am happier about my purchase than before the latest device from Apple was announced. Here's how the two phones stack up against one another.…
Read MoreCoulomb to Deploy 4,600 Electric Car Charge Spots, Thanks to DOE
Coulomb Technologies, a startup working on charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, has garnered a $15 million federa; grant to support deployment of 4,600 networked charging stations in nine regions around the country -- a $37 million endeavor in all.…
Read MoreMilestone: First Stimulus-Backed Electric Vehicle Ready to Roll
Navistar today fired up the assembly line for its eStar electric truck at a plant in Indiana's Elkhart County today, and said it's delivering the first electric vehicle to be built and deployed with funding from the stimulus-funded battery grant program.…
Read MoreDOE Looks to the Web to Speed Up Loan Guarantees
Doling out awards ASAP under the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program has been an ongoing theme for the agency under the Obama administration. One of the next steps to speed up the process will be bringing more of it online.…
Read MoreFirst Look: Spring Design Alex– Dual Screen e-Book Reader
Spring Design is now shipping the Alex reader, an e-book reader with both a six inch e-Ink screen and a 3.5 inch color touchscreen. The Alex runs Android, and it shows to be a solid reader after initial testing. Here's the first look at the Alex.…
Read MoreWhat the Feds' Risky Greentech Fund Can Do for Electric Cars
Cheaper, longer-lasting, safer and smaller -- those are the kinds of rechargeable batteries that could become available for electric cars if some of the research projects funded under the Department of Energy's latest round of grants for high-risk, early-stage energy technologies deliver on their moonshot ambitions.…
Read MoreWant to Know What Facebook Is Saying About You? Try This Tool
Interested in finding out what information Facebook is sharing about you through its new open-graph API? Developer Ka-Ping Yee has come up with a simple tool that shows you everything the social network is sending to anyone whose app or service uses the new feature.…
Read MoreLG Chem to Build $303M Volt Battery Plant in Holland, Mich.
Regardless of all the possible benefits of having a battery manufacturing industry in the U.S. for plug-in vehicles, building out that fledgling…
Read MoreFrom Recession to Recovery: Cleantech Companies Navigating Shifting Economy
After spending the better part of the last two years scrambling to survive the recession, the discussion has shifted for cleantech firms…
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