Recent interview published on cityfix:
France wants to take the lead in the new electrified vehicle industry. The 2007 Grenelle Environnement (a multi-party roundtable to define public policy in France) helped to shape the country’s sustainable development strategy. The stimulus plan at the end of 2008 emphasized this effort by establishing an 800 million-euro fund for sustainable [...]
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Could Autolib’ Transform the City of Lights into a City of Electric Vehicles?
Posted in Green Revolution, Management & Stratégie on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
French Solar Photovoltaic Market is “a new Chinese” market
Posted in Green Revolution on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For much of the past decade, policy-driven demand in a series of champion markets has driven the growth of the global PV industry. Successively, Japan, Germany and then Spain fueled the PV market growth. Now, secondary markets such as the French one are poised to take off.
Specificity of this market is its uncertainty. Uncertain markets [...]
Plug into the end of oil age
Posted in Economie, Green Revolution, tagged Electric vehicle, green strategy, china on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sustainable development may ultimately be about the environment, but it is perhaps about economics first and foremost.
Electric vehicles are not new. They were first marketed in the early 1900s and then revived unsuccessfully in the 1990s. However, the situation at that time was very different: oil was cheap and abundant, and the downside costs of [...]
