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Mountain View, Calif. (UPI) Mar 14, 2011 Drivers of electric cars looking for someplace to charge vehicles when away from home are getting some help from Google, company officials say. The company has added the locations of electric vehicle recharging stations to the popular Google Maps smart phone application, PhysOrg.com reported Monday. Despite electric cars becoming mass-market items, drivers still have to deal with infrastructure problems not faced by their fossil-fuel-powered counterparts. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is providing the data on the charging locations, adding 7,000 alternative fueling stations in the United States to the Google Maps application. Electric vehicle owners can type "ev charging station" into the application's search function and will then be presented with a local area map with charging stations highlighted, Google said.
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Buffett-backed China carmaker BYD sees profit slipBeijing (AFP) March 14, 2011 Chinese carmaker BYD, backed by US billionaire Warren Buffett, said net profit fell 33.5 percent year on year in 2010 due to intense competition and rising distribution costs. The company - in which Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holds a nearly 10 percent stake - posted a net profit of 2.52 billion yuan ($384 million) last year, it said in a statement. That compared with 3.79 billion yua ... read more |
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