The Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference presents “Electric Car 2.0: Who Will Win The Race? (Innovation, Policy, and China)”, the fifth in a continuing series of focused conferences highlighting clean technology solutions to address global energy challenges. Panels will discuss new innovations in electric vehicle technology, the opportunities and challenges from China, and the policies that are [...]

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BenZhou Motorcycle Group, based in Taizhou, China, is one of the leading manufacturers of high quality scooters since over 12 years. Recently BenZhou ventured into the field of Electric Scooters and quickly became one of the leading exporters of Electric Scooters to over 40 countries with over 50 different models of scooters shipping over 2,00,000 [...]

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Giant marine park plan for Chagos
The Independent | 09 Feb 2009
An ambitious plan to preserve the pristine ocean habitat of the Chagos Islands by turning them into a huge marine reserve on the scale of the Great Barrier Reef or the Galapagos will be unveiled at the Royal Society next Monday.

Wedding lists go green as [...]

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China needs more rational policies to make the most of its wind power, says an editorial inNature.
Despite doubling their capacity every year for the past three years, China’s wind turbines are less efficient at producing energy and break down more often than those in other countries.
China’s bidding system favours developers that promise cheap supplies of [...]

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One of the carmakers showing off its electric power at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit is from China. The Shenzhen-based company BYD — which stands for Build Your Dreams — has built the world’s first mass-produced, plug-in hybrid car, beating both Chevrolet and Toyota to the punch.
The midsize sedan is called the [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama’s goals for curbing greenhouse gases to 2020 are inadequate to fight global warming, Chinese and Indian delegates told Reuters at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday.
Developing nations welcomed Obama’s plan for tougher goals than President George W. Bush but said Obama’s target of cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by [...]

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China will impose a long-awaited fuel tax “very soon,” the head of National Development and Reform Commission’s (NDRC) Energy Research Institute said in comments reported on Tuesday by the China Daily.
“The announcement will come very soon, and actually specific plans have already been suggested to the government long ago,” Han Wenke, director general of the [...]

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said rich nations must abandon their “unsustainable lifestyle” to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations bearing the brunt of worsening droughts and rising sea levels.
Wen told the opening of a conference Friday the financial crisis was no reason for rich nations to delay fighting global warming.
“As the global [...]

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China is rushing in to build its own network of electric charging stations. Xinhua, the government’s official newspaper, announced last week that the State Grid Corporation, the world’s largest electric power transmission and distribution company, is speeding up its plans to build electric car charging stations.
The stations will be located in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and [...]

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China is on the verge of becoming the world’s largest investor in green energy as it struggles to reverse the catastrophic effect its industry has wreaked on the environment.Last year, China spent £6 billion on renewable energy projects, just slightly short of Germany, the world leader. This year, the Communist Party has vowed to redouble [...]

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