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Towards the 100 MPG Airplane

The CAFE Foundation's mission is to help improve the efficiency of general aviation aircraft. Now it has set its sights on also reducing their carbon footprint by exploring the realm of electric flight.

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Sonex Moves Closer to Electric Flight
More electric-powered aircraft are taking wing as battery, motor and controller technology make e-flight possible. Now American homebuilt aircraft manufacturer Sonex is about to join the party as it moves another step closer towards the dream of electric flight.


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Ten Years of PowerDriving On
OPPD Spokesperson Gary Williams explains why his public power company and Nebraska Public Power District continue their strong commitment after ten years of the statewide PowerDrive electric car program.


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When Consumer Surveys Go Flat
Synovate Motoresearch contends half of the consumers they've surveyed won't pay more than a $1000 extra for a plug-in hybrid. The director of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center at UC Davis offers his view on 'willingness to pay' surveys.


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Omaha's Plain Talking Billionaires on Climate - Oil - Public Transit
Multi-billionaire Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and his vice-chairman Charlie Munger answer shareholder questions about climate change, peak oil and public transit.


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ZeroTruck: Cleaning Up Mobile Media
What do 12-passenger, hot tub-equipped New York City stretch limousines and Las Vegas-style mobile media trucks have in common? A transplanted New Yorker by the name of Tedd Abramson.


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Closing the Plug-in Hybrid Cost Gap
EV World catches the 'father' of the plug-in hybrid between connecting flights at Dallas' DFW airport to talk about the efforts of his new company, Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. to close the substantial cost gap between plug-in hybrids and regular hybrids.


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Electric Ground-Effect Flight
The ever-imaginative Harry Valentine takes the principles of a compressed air bottle rocket and PDX propeller-free propulsion and theorizes yet another approach to electrically-powered flight.

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