Nick Clegg Promises £500 million for ULEVs
The UK Government has announced in a press release that the: Deputy Prime Minister takes ‘green’ cars up a gear! The government will invest £500 million to boost the ultra low emission vehicle industry...
View ArticleIndependent Body of Experts Needed to Inform Energy Policy
The Institute for Sustainability at Newcastle University have announced this week that: The UK’s energy industry is fragmented and a ‘system architect’ is needed to inform technical decisions and take...
View ArticleUsed Nissan EV Batteries Now Provide Grid Scale Storage
Nissan have recently announced that: The manmade island of Yumeshima in western Japan’s Osaka is now home to the world’s first large-scale energy storage system, a project that also highlights the...
View ArticleThe Great Dunchideock Blackout Saga
We recently suffered a power outage, or power cut as we prefer to call such things here in the UK. This wasn’t any old power outage either. Let me explain. The lights went out at 17:44 on Friday April...
View ArticleSinopoly to Invest $42 Million in Smith Electric Vehicles
Smith Electric Vehicles also have a factory here in the UK, but they stopped production at their U.S. factory near Kansas City airport late in 2013. Now they have announced that they have: Read more on...
View ArticleCalifornia Invests $2.3 million in V2G Technology
The California Energy Commission have announced that they have awarded: A $2.3 million contract to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will help fund demonstration of...
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