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Obama gives $2.4bn Jump Start To Battery Makers

Revenge of the Electric Car

President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015. Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy. The new $2.4-billion

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. From the article: “The goal is to make it easier for consumers and communities to get started with E.V.’s. California-based Coulomb Technologies makes the program’s ChargePoint chargers, which were shipped to 130 customers in 2009.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

Roll back the clock to the dark days of 2009, when two of the three US automakers collapsed into bankruptcy and were restructured by the White House Auto Task Force in the early days of the first Obama administration. This article appeared in Issue 59: Jan-Mar 2022 – Subscribe now. Photo courtesy of FedEx.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr.,

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Chrysler Changes Its Mind About EVs

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Fri Nov 6, 2009 9:49pm EST. By Kevin Krolicki. More details below: Tags: Obama Energy chrysler. Chrysler dismantles electric car plans under Fiat. “Until the (battery) storage gets resolved, I think electric vehicles are going to struggle,&# he said.

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Accessing Pixs of the "Spirit of DC" and LOTS of Other Plug-ins from the Inaugural Parade West: Plug In, America! in Santa Monica, 17 Jan 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

End of Article] Hopefully, soon we'll be posting pixs from Bill Hopkins as well. The country is ready, the market is ready, the people are ready and news flash, the technology is ready." Photo courtesy of Jeanne Trombly. More photos of the event available here.

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Tesla Prepping IPO

Revenge of the Electric Car

The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009.&#. Here is the full text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009. by Reuters.

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