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Oil Found Everywhere, But Still Not Enough Of It

Oil Found Everywhere, But Still Not Enough Of It

Yesterday Carlos Ghosn, head of Nissan/Renault, said that oil needs to stay above $70 a barrel or no-one will end up buying his…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | September 17, 2009 12:38PM | No Comments »


Tensions Already Developing Ahead Of Copenhagen Conference

Tensions Already Developing Ahead Of Copenhagen Conference

As we saw yesterday with China’s massive preference for petrol cars over hybrids, developing countries are discovering carbon-emitting technologies right when the developed world doesn’t…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | September 8, 2009 11:54AM | No Comments »


BYD Sells Just 31 Hybrids So Far This Year

BYD Sells Just 31 Hybrids So Far This Year

BYD, the Chinese car manufacturer, may have the approval of Warren Buffett, have its petrol cars selling well with China’s emerging middle class,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | September 7, 2009 12:23PM | No Comments »


Royal Society Gives Geoengineering A Cautious Thumbs Up In Fight Against Carbon

Royal Society Gives Geoengineering A Cautious Thumbs Up In Fight Against Carbon

The debate about geoengineering, the process of intervening in and manipulating the natural environment, comes as the UK government’s energy promises have been admirably ambitious,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | September 2, 2009 1:30PM | 1 Comment »


GM Volt And Nissan Leaf - Which Is Better Value? And Which Is Greener?

GM Volt And Nissan Leaf – Which Is Better Value? And Which Is Greener?

After the PR face-off a couple of months ago between the next-gen Toyota Prius and Honda Insight, two more green motors are now…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | August 12, 2009 11:52AM | 4 Comments »


Cash For Clunkers Scheme Set To Continue, But Is Undermining The Auto Industry?

Cash For Clunkers Scheme Set To Continue, But Is It Undermining The Auto Industry?

The “cash for clunkers” scheme, and its rather more prosaically-titled UK equivalent, the car scrappage scheme, are ideas that were scorned for their short-termism, potentially…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | August 5, 2009 12:49PM | 2 Comments »


Miliband Draws Up Energy Road Map

Miliband Draws Up Energy Road Map

The noises made during recent months by Alastair Darling and Ed Miliband over the future of Britain’s energy generation have now been properly articulated in…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | July 16, 2009 11:49AM | No Comments »


US Provides Loans For Electric Cars - Will The UK Realise This Is A Good Idea?

US Provides Loans For Electric Cars – Will The UK Realise This Is A Good Idea?

In a heartening bit of stimulus, the US has given Ford, Nissan and Tesla billions in cheap loans to fund the development and manufacture of…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 24, 2009 11:07AM | 1 Comment »


A Mixed Week For Renewable Energy

A Mixed Week For Renewable Energy

A mixed bag in the world of renewable energy this week. While Europe is getting its shit together on all fronts, the US is starting…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 16, 2009 1:40PM | 4 Comments »


Hummer Sold To Chinese Company, Just Saab And Saturn To Go For GM

Hummer Sold To Chinese Company, Just Saab And Saturn To Go For GM

While China has some of the most affordable and likely-to-succeed electric cars on the market coming out of BYD, it’s had its green cred tainted…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 3, 2009 11:33AM | 1 Comment »


Sheikh Mansour Chooses Hydrocarbons Over Barclays

Sheikh Mansour Chooses Hydrocarbons Over Barclays

One of the shortest chapters in Barclays’ history has closed, with the departure of one of its bacon-saving Arab investors yesterday, who collected

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 2, 2009 11:26AM | No Comments »


Pressure Builds On Total To Get Out Of Burma

Pressure Builds On Total To Get Out Of Burma

What with North Korea’s nuclear dick-swinging, swine flu, and an endless parade of MPs expenses fiddling, all set against a peachy backdrop of economic decline,…

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Posted by Mike Bennett in Green Rush | May 28, 2009 1:12PM | 2 Comments »