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Longer Lasting and More Powerful Hybrid Car Battery

The odometer of a low emission hybrid electric test vehicle today reached 100,000 miles as the car circled a track in the UK using the power of an advanced CSIRO battery system.

20 Jan 2008

Google Reveals Initiatives to Combat Climate Change

Google.org today rolled out five core initiatives that will be the focus of its philanthropic efforts over the next five to ten years.

19 Jan 2008

Air Pollution Causes Heart Disease

Patients prone to heart disease may one day be told by physicians to avoid not only fatty foods and smoking but air pollution too.

18 Jan 2008

Xethanol is Targeting the Fast-Moving Alternate Energy World

Xethanol Corporation, a renewable energy company, has announced an investment in Carbon Motors Corporation, a new American automaker developing a specially-built law enforcement vehicle featuring a clean diesel engine that can run on biodiesel fuel.

18 Jan 2008

Be Careful with the Accelerator Because Hybrid School Buses Like to Go

Two of the country's first 19 hybrid school buses are now running routes in two Iowa school districts.

16 Jan 2008

Royal Society Warns Government to Drive Biofuels in Right Direction

Biofuels risk failing to deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from transport and could even be environmentally damaging unless the Government puts the right policies in place warns a new Royal Society report today.

16 Jan 2008

Campuses Nationwide Taking Significant Bite Out of Emissions

As Congress considers legislation that seeks to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by mid-century, colleges and universities may hold the key.

15 Jan 2008

Coskata’s Next Generation Ethanol Process

The Oklahoma State University Biofuels Team’s ability to think small – microscopic, actually – stands to provide great dividends for consumers, a renewable energy company and one of the nation’s foremost automakers.

15 Jan 2008

MIT and Italian Energy Company Announces Major Energy Research Partnership

MIT and Italian energy company Eni today announced a major energy research partnership. The centerpiece of this collaboration will be a program focusing on the development of advanced solar technologies, from novel photovoltaic materials to the design of solar power plants.

15 Jan 2008

Toyota Plans to Commence Sales of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles by 2010

TMC announced on January 13 at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit that it plans to commence sales of lithium-ion battery-equipped plug-in hybrid vehicles to fleet customers in the United States and elsewhere by 2010.

15 Jan 2008