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U.S. companies join to build electric car batteries
The Wall Street JournalFourteen U.S. technology companies are joining forces and seeking $1 billion in federal aid to build a plant to make advanced batteries for electric cars, in a bid to catch up to Asian rivals that are far ahead of the United States. The effort, the...Tags: General Electric Company, Technology, Government Aid, Electronics, Automotive Equipment
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U.S. EV Battery Production Planned
KickingTiresOne of the big problems that's rarely discussed in the tizzy around hybrid electric and plug-in electric vehicles becoming massively adopted is the availability of the batteries that power them. Today, there are no U.S. plants that can build large......Tags: Vehicles, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company, Hybrid Vehicles, Plant Openings
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14 U.S. Companies Join Forces, Seek $1 Billion in Aid to Build Batteries for EVs
Edmunds.comFourteen U.S. technology companies are joining forces and seeking $1 billion in federal aid to build a plant to make advanced batteries for electric cars, in a bid to catch up to Asian rivals that are far ahead of the U.S., The Wall Street Journal... -
City turns on methane energy at Back River plant
With the push of a button, Baltimore set a course yesterday to save up to $2.4 million by using waste to treat waste.
Until yesterday morning, gas - mostly methane - produced at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in East Baltimore was vented and...Tags: Water Supply, Sheila Dixon, Energy Saving, Renewable Energy, National Government
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GM reports running low on cash; it ends Chrysler merger talks
Posting another multibillion-dollar quarterly loss Friday, General Motors Corp. said it was "cutting to the bone" but may run out of money by early next year without help from the federal government. The nation's largest automaker is now throwing...Tags: Moody's Corporation, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Retirement, Credit Ratings, Metal and Mineral
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Joy Riding With Reddy Kilowatt
If not gasoline, then what? That question has gone through the minds of many a motorist standing at the self-service pump and watching the numbers on the price readout soar. One solution could be to use less gasoline by combining it with another, more...Tags: Engineering, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Metal and Mineral, Passenger Cars, Hybrid Vehicles
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How to Get the U.S. Ready for EV Batteries
KickingTiresAs lithium-ion batteries increasingly look like the future of cars, getting use in hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, the question is, how do we make them here? The problem is that most of the materials for these batteries come......Tags: Contracts, Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Freedom of the Press, Hybrid Vehicles
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Art Center won't renew contract of president
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAfter an intense grass-roots protest movement by students and alumni of Art Center College of Design, trustees of the elite Pasadena institution have decided not to renew Richard Koshalek's contract as president when it expires at the end of 2009. The...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Academic Progress, National Government, Arts, Walt Disney Co.
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Dissension at Art Center College of Design
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConcerned that Art Center College of Design is putting too much money and energy into expanding its campus and promoting itself to outsiders -- and not enough into scholarships and instruction -- hundreds of students and alumni of the elite private...Tags: Architecture, Los Angeles, Heavy Engineering, Campaign Finance, Michael Bay
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: American Express Co.; Apollo Group Inc.; Apple Inc.; Halliburton Co.; Hasbro Inc.; Kimberly-Clark Corp.; Merck & Co.; Pactiv Corp.; PrivateBancorp Inc.; Schering-Plough Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc.; Wintrust Financial Corp.; Zebra...Tags: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Pactiv Corporation, Moody's Corporation, Halliburton Company, Schering Plough Corporation
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Chrysler, union try to work it out together
Tribune staff reporterAs Bruce Baumhower wheeled his Town and Country mini-van past the gleaming white boxes of this city's new Jeep Wrangler plant on a recent spring afternoon, his cell phone rang with a call he'd been waiting for all day. "This is him," he said with a grin,...Tags: Bankruptcy, Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing, National Government, Employees
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Sensors Boost Boilers' Efficiency
YOUR COOKTOP would be inefficient if it operated at its highest setting all the time. And it would not be a practical thing for hot water to gush from a faucet at its boiling point. And so for safety, comfort and efficiency, range tops and faucets have...Tags: Energy Saving, Honeywell International Incorporated, Petroleum Industry
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