June 5, 2009 

According to Whole Foods and Safeway, solar companies need to up their knowledge of potential solar customers. Hara Software must have had that information when it pitched to Coca-Cola. Solar companies shouldn't lose hope – even First Solar started out as a small fry.

Another powerhouse, Volvo, says by skipping a step in the hybrid process we could see a Volvo Hybrid in three years. China is getting into the EV action with the Coda from a Sino U.S.-China Alliance. Turns out electric vehicles could store more energy than the amount made for the nation's electric grid. A new tax bill targets energy storage in cars and tax-incentives for energy storage in individual buildings. Talk about simple solutions: a cell-phone has gone green by getting rid of the big paper manual. Watch our video with BrightSource Energy CEO John Woolard on the future of solar in the desert, but is he one of the many that Travis Bradford thinks is still in denial about the current solar market?

 

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