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By Guest Contributor Hot off the presses, a new report released today by SEIA, The Solar Foundation, and Generation 180 shows vast growth in solar on K-12 schools in the United States.

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By Nicolas Zart Alta Motors, the other electric motorcycle company in California, has a few good pieces of news to announce. Alta Motors has added 36 new dealerships in 16 new states in the past year. As of today, that brings the total to 41 dealers. That means, most likely, you too can have fun in the woods! 🙂

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By Nicolas Zart Alta Motors just announced that Matthew Work has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. Works has more than 20 years working in high-growth software companies, as well as a passion for riding motorcycles. He brings his expertise to grow Alta Motors’ expansion across the US and internationally by next year

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By James Ayre As part of a wider bid to reduce local and regional air pollution problems, the Liverpool City Council is now working to install around 100 plug-in electric vehicle charge points in the city. It is also introducing an anti-idling pilot scheme and creating a so-called “Clean Air Zone.”

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By James AyreA couple of months back, PSA Group finalized its purchase of the Opel brand from GM, for around €1.3 billion. Now, after becoming more familiar with Opel’s internal operations, PSA Group is seeking around half of what it paid to be refunded. The problem? Opel’s carbon emissions reduction efforts were far worse than was disclosed. That’s according to unnamed sources cited by Reuters

By Nicole Davis | Whitehead Institute

A research team led by MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research has harnessed metabolomic technologies to unravel the molecular activities of a key protein that enables plants to withstand a common herbicide.

Their findings reveal how the protein — a kind of catalyst or enzyme first isolated in bacteria and introduced into plants such as corn and…

By Dorothy Ryan | Lincoln Laboratory

In the darkness of 2 a.m. on Aug. 26, the sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida, lit up with the bright plume of a Minotaur rocket lifting off from its launch pad. Aboard the rocket, a satellite developed by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office awaited its deployment into low Earth orbit.

The ORS-5…

By James AyreThe London Electric Vehicle Company came to terms with interested parties in Amsterdam (Netherlands) a couple of months back to sell and deploy some 225 units of the company’s new extended-range electric cab — with the deal set to represent the first deployment outside of London of the new electric version of the city’s iconic black cabs. That deal will see the electric cabs…