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Gore's group on board with plug-ins

Plugs and Cars

The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore's group, has taken another step toward promoting plug-in cars (all electric cars and plug-in hybrids) with its RePower America campaign. Let's hope Al Gore's been saying as much to President Obama (doesn't that sound great!).

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Grove made it clear one thing was glaringly missing from Gore’s plea: dealing with our national petroleum addiction. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” We spoke with Shegerian about e-waste’s effect on the future of our world and our privacy, and the role engineers can play in solutions.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

2 billion for the Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant program , which “encourage[s] domestic production and sales of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles and components of those vehicles”. billion for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and $1.71 billion for supporting charging infrastructure.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying? " Best of the Blogroll Maria Energia Piceance Basin: Learning How to Drill for Natural Gas Clean Break U.S. SZ (1) 6753.T

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