Fisker Raises $392M, Ups Goal to $500M
Jeff St. John: April 2, 2012
Fisker joins the billion-dollar VC club with new raise from Advanced Equities, as it struggles to overcome recalls, other setbacks.
Fisker joins the billion-dollar VC club with new raise from Advanced Equities, as it struggles to overcome recalls, other setbacks.
“The way energy is generated, flows, and is bought and sold is going through a revolution.”
We explore the 60-plus smart grid players and cutting-edge test labs and pilot projects of North Carolina’s Research Triangle.
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China’s Xiamen University enlists partners to use direct-current solar power for lights, HVAC and data centers. Will DC-to-the-desktop be next?
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New roadmaps point Ireland toward the future of the electricity system.
ABB wants to use ECOtality’s Blink operating platform for car charging networks around the world.
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“There is a fundamental change going on in the structure of the industry.”
Not building a smart grid will cost $400 billion; building it will deliver $1 trillion to $2 trillion in value. What’s the holdup?