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Disrupting Oil Auctions, A Republican on Climate Change & The Electric Car Revolution_on Earthbeat

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EARTHBEAT — Disrupting Oil Auctions, A Republican on Climate Change & The Electric Car Revolution

In 2008, a University of Utah economics student created chaos when he took part in an auction of oil and gas drilling leases in the state. Tim De Christopher bid up parcels of land by hundreds of thousands of dollars – ultimately halting the auction. Tim won the bidding on 13 parcels and drove up the prices on several other pieces of land. Before the bogus bids were discovered, the thousands of acres of oil and gas leases were purchased for $7-point-2 (M) million dollars. Of course Tim did not have the money to pay for his bids – and never had the intention paying. His goal, which he achieved, was to disrupt the entire process. Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham interviewed Tim De Christopher while attending the “Pricing Carbon Conference” held at Wesleyan University. We spoke about the auction and his pending criminal charges, as well as his new target – America’s Tar Sands.

South Carolina Representative Bob Inglis was one of the many legislators replaced by upstart candidates during the 2010 Midterm Election. But what sets Inglis apart is that he’s one of the few Republicans who support action against climate change. Daphne met up with Bob at the recent “Pricing Carbon Conference” – and asked him about his being the rare Republican who supports action on climate change.

Shai Agassi stunned the software industry in 2007 by resigning from the software world and decided to focus his vision on breaking the world’s fossil fuel habit. At a recent TED Conference, Shai explained exactly how he’s hoping to solve the puzzle of electric automobiles.

Music in this episode of Earthbeat is ‘Joe Hill’ by the album Fellow Workers by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips

Image by Slack pics – used under the Creative Commons license

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Nikola Tesla – The forgotten Wizard of Free Energy

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Tesla Motors: Toyota electric prototypes coming soon

noliesradio — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:46:14 +0000

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, senior writerJuly 10, 2010: 1:05 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Electric carmaker Tesla Motors will deliver two prototypes to Toyota Motor Co. by the end of the month, a Tesla executive said Saturday.

The prototypes will use Tesla’s electric motors and battery packs and the bodies of Toyota vehicles.

Toyota is working with Tesla Motors, maker of the Roadster electric sports car, on a new electric vehicle.

“Toyota and Tesla engineering teams have made a lot of progress in a short amount of time and it is exciting to start seeing some initial results,” Tesla Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel said in a statement.

Toyota announced in May that it planned to invest $50 million in Tesla Motors (TSLA) following the electric car maker’s initial public offering, which took place on June 29. Tesla’s stock closed Friday at $17.40, down 21% over five days.

Toyota, which is already the industry leader in gas-electric hybrid cars, is also looking for other partners to develop future alternative fuel technologies. In fact, collaboration with other companies is expected to be a key part of Toyota’s alternative fuel strategy.

Toyota executives have, in the past, expressed doubts about the market potential for purely electric cars. They have citing the vehicles’ high cost, relatively short driving distance, long charging times and questionable battery technology.

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The Movie BP & Big Oil Companies Don’t Want You to See

noliesradio — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:38:50 +0000

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Nissan’s Leaf: A Battery Electric Car with Charging Network Coming

noliesradio — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:54:10 +0000

You can charge it at home!

The 2010 hatchback EV promises a bright, clean and convenient future. Also see other hot new green cars.

The Nissan Leaf: It’s ready for fast charging. (Nissan photo)

What do a parking garage in New Haven, Connecticut, a McDonald’s in Cary, North Carolina and a Starwood hotel in Lexington, Massachusetts have in common? Give up? They all have electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The EV revolution is on, and soon it will be behind the times to open a new business, christen a new apartment building or build a new home without making EV charging part of the built-in package.

On Saturday night, Nissan finally unveiled its long-awaited plug-in battery car, and it’s a five-passenger hatchback called the Leaf (100-mile range, eight-hour charge at 220 volts, 90 mph top speed). I think it’s really cool looking, though the styling is fairly restrained and doesn’t shout “eco-car.” Nissan didn’t reveal a price yet, but it does say that the car will be in the same ballpark as a well-equipped mid-sized car, which presumably means under $20,000. If so, the company will likely take a big bath on every sale, because the battery pack alone costs as much as $10,000. It will be an incredible deal for consumers, though, not least because charging — the big hurdle for EVs — is likely to be pretty convenient.

Here’s what the Leaf looks like on video:

Here’s a scenario, constructed with help from Nissan spokesman Mark Perry. Bob (not his real name) comes home at 6 p.m. and angles his Leaf into the garage. He plugs it into the wall charger, but nothing happens right away, because Bob has set the car’s charging timer to 11 p.m., when the electric rates go down. At around 6 a.m., the car sends an email and an alert to Bob’s cell phone indicating that the car is fully charged.

At 8 a.m. Bob gets into his car for the 20-mile journey to the wind energy company where he works (Bob is green). At work, with the battery about a fifth depleted, Bob plugs into the charging station in the parking lot. Fully charged again, he heads back home at 5 p.m., stopping at a Wal-Mart near his home for a solar panel. Again, he plugs in because Wal-Mart by now offers free EV fast charging. By the time he emerges in 15 minutes, his car is again fully charged. When Bob finally does get home, he doesn’t even bother to plug in because the Leaf is fully charged.

This is not a distant fantasy, but pretty short-term reality for EVs. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is actually an EV charging leader, competing directly with such entities as Coulomb, ECOtality and Better Place. According to Perry, the company’s goal is to have 10 to 15 charging partners — either states or cities — in the U.S. when the Leaf first becomes available in late 2010 (it will simultaneously go on sale in Europe and Japan). Oregon and Tennessee are on board, as are such cities as San Diego, Raleigh, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Seattle and both Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona.

Perry said Nissan will produce 50,000 Leafs worldwide in the first year, but it is gearing up for much more — as many as 150,000 produced in its new Smyrna, Tennessee facility (for which it received a $1.6 billion Department of Energy loan) by 2012. The battery plant in Smyrna will have the capacity for 200,000 packs annually, and that’s the goal for worldwide Leaf production by 2012.

Photo Credit: Nissan

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