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NEW YORK: Suntech Power Co’s chief executive said on Friday he expects the US solar power market to grow between 30 percent to 50 percent a year over the next decade.

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Scottsdale’s Modus Development is offering homebuyers a standard solar electric system at its Array Development, located at Oak and Scottsdale roads. Each of the nine townhouses in the complex will have a 2-kilowatt photovoltaic system provided by American Solar Electric.

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Hybrid Technologies is developing an all-electric Mini  Cooper that will be available next year. Frank
Ziegler, Hybrid Technologies’ Director of Sales and Distribution told me the car will sell for $59,000. That’s more than $40,000 over the list price of a gasoline Mini, but an average drive would save about $1250 a year on gasoline, based [...]

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Pacific and Gas Electric demonstrated how cars can help to keep the lights on when the grid is being swamped. The power company’s demonstration vehicle sent electricity stored on its lithium ion batteries to the grid.

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The city of Austin has developed a grand scheme to use plug-in electric car batteries to capture wind-generated electricity at night, then feed it back to the grid in the daytime when demand is high. There’s just one problem: those cars don’t exist yet.

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GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is so committed to the Chevy Volt that he spent his Saturday on a blog post rebutting the “naysayers” at the Detroit News. Under the headline “GM tries to unplug Volt hype,” the News wrote Friday that an edgy GM was trying to “temper expectations” about its chances of getting [...]

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The first Tesla Roadster Validation Prototype (VP) has just arrived in Tesla’s San Carlos workshop for system testing. (The VP, which was airlifted from the Hethel assembly facility in the UK, is not to be confused with VP for Vehicle Integration Malcolm Powell, who made today’s announcement.) As Powell explains, VPs are second generation prototypes, [...]

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Miles Automotive is offering a bounty to student unions that promote the use of electric vehicles. The company’s “No Gas Required” PR campaign makes electric cars available for demonstration at school events, and the company will pay $500 to university “green groups” that convince their school to buy an EV.
Miles Automotive’s perform similar to competing [...]

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The largest solar power plant in North America will soon be providing electricity to an Air Force base in the Nevada desert.

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Scientists have doubled the efficiency of organic or flexible, plastic solar cells in just two years.

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