Plug In Electric Car
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Boston-Power readies long-lasting laptop batteries
News After three years of development, upstart Boston-Power is expected to announce a customer that will include its premium batteries in laptops early next year.
Tags: Components, Notebooks and tablets, Green IT, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Manufacturing, Notebook, electric car, performance, Laptop Computer
Google crashes the smart-grid party
News Company introduces PowerMeter software for tracking home energy use, part of smart-grid plan to make energy data available on the Web in real time in standard formats.
Tags: Green IT, Web sites, Google Inc., Utility, General Electric Co., Renewable Energy, Hardware, software, energy efficiency, industry
Auto battery maker Ener1 eyes grid storage
News Lithium ion battery company seeks to expand its auto business with government loan and grant programs while testing power grid energy storage with utilities.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Manufacturing, Storage, auto company, Ener1, electric car, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, industry
Al Gore: It's not just about the planet
News In talk promoting his book, Al Gore looks for fixes beyond renewable energy and draws link between environment, energy, and U.S. economy.
Tags: Green IT, Al Gore, Copenhagen, Oil, geothermal energy, plug-in electric car, electric car, wind energy, economic crisis, Middle East
Andy Grove urges Intel to build car batteries
News Former Intel CEO--now a plug-in vehicle advocate--says the chip giant should make electric car batteries to diversify and jump-start the alternative-energy field.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Intel Corp., Conference, Plug-in, Manufacturing, Chip, car battery, electric car, U.S. company
Study: Bioelectricity bests biofuels on miles per acre
News Researchers find that using crop land to make electricity to power a plug-in electric vehicle is more efficient and less polluting than running a comparable car with ethanol.
Tags: Green IT, Plug-in, greenhouse gas emission, co-author, greenhouse gas, electric car, biofuel, car, Green IT, transportation
