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Plug In Partners

T he Plug In Partners Blog celebrates its first year of publishing this month. Cars: It's a Start February 5, 2006 Cities to seek plug-in hybrids Janurary 24, 2006 Coalition Turns On to 'Plug-In Hybrids' January 26, 2006 More News Here are the years most important stories that we have either highlighted or linked.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Are You Plugged In? Some of the first plug-in electric passenger vehicles are slated to roll onto U.S. How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. By Mara Lemos Stein.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

“Well, I confess, I still go to a gas station regularly—to clean my damn windows,” says my friend and fellow Plug In America co-founder Ron Freund. Winter solstice has swept in , and me and my electric vehicle (EV) are taking another trip around the sun—on sunshine! . And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. .

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Sure, national leaders failed to sign a meaningful agreement, even after painstaking work by so many national staffs, NGOs (like Global Observatory), and demonstrators. It reported – even with global distractions like Tiger Woods in full swing. But what I really wanted was…a bicycle. one point for cars). The list goes on.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Ethanol – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Beautif.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Before greenhouse gasses became a global concern, before we came to terms with the inevitable limits of fossil fuels, natural gas would have been a logical fuel alternative to petroleum. But we can use the electricity generated with each to power plug-in cars. Hundreds of articles were published asking if the Volt can save GM.

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