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Toyota Motor Corp., Asia’s largest automaker, will begin selling its smallest hybrid car in Japan today to compete with Honda Motor Co. for younger consumers seeking an entry-level fuel-efficient vehicle. The Aqua compact hybrid, ...  more

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI) has delivered a large-capacity energy storage system employing lithium-ion rechargeable batteries to the Shimizu Institute of Technology in Tokyo. The institute, a technology arm of Shimizu...  more

A123 Systems (Nasdaq:AONE), a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate® lithium ion batteries and systems, announced that it will supply an 11MW Grid Battery System (GBS) to Sempra Generation for the Auwahi Wind projec...  more

solarhybrid AG announces the delay of its acquisition of US solar power projects with a capacity of 2.25 GWp from the Solar Millennium Group from 2011 to the first quarter of 2012. Furthermore, the acquisition will be implemented ...  more

Envision Solar International, Inc., a sustainable infrastructure product designer and developer, announced that the company was once again profitable at the gross margin line in the 3rd quarter of FY2011. The company will hold a w...  more

Gamesa has signed a contract with NREA (New & Renewable Energy Authority) to deliver 200 MW of turbines to wind energy projects in the Gulf of El-Zayt, on Egypt's Red Sea coast. With the contract awarded to Gamesa, this intern...  more

Leclanché S.A. (SIX Swiss Exchange : LECN), specialized in the production of large-format lithium ion cells and energy storage solutions, announced its intention to collaborate with Talesun Solar, a Chinese manufacturer of high qu...  more

solarhybrid AG completed the last two solar power plant projects for the current financial year, "FinowTower II" and "Allstedt I". In the "FinowTower" project, which was expanded this year by 60.4 MWp from 24.3 MWp to 84.7 MWp an...  more

Electric cars make up a very small percentage of the cars on the roads , but there is no doubt that the EV trend is growing. Terms that were once foreign sounding, like EcoBoost and Hybrid, have now softened the path for more effi...  more

Boston-Power, which makes "next-generation" lithium-ion battery cells, modules and systems, raised $30 million in  another equity round. Existing investor GSR Ventures, led the round, and long-standing investors Oak Investment Par...  more