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Obama gives $2.4bn Jump Start To Battery Makers

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President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. billion competitive grant program for US battery makers. 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.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

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A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. A $2,000 value!). By Jim Motavalli for the New York Times.

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Computational first-principles approach identifies dozens of new platinum-group alloys

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The research is part of the Materials Genome Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in 2011. The study appears in the American Physical Society journal Physical Review X and is highlighted in a Viewpoint article in the journal Physics. This research was supported by the DOD-ONR (Grants No. —Hart et al. DMR-0908753).

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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constitutional amendment that was passed by the National Congress of Chile and signed by the president, the people of Chile are the first in the world to be granted a new kind of human rights—“neurorights”—which advocates say are made necessary by rapid advances in neurotechnology. Thanks to a. Neurotech includes. IEEE Spectrum.

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Chrysler Changes Its Mind About EVs

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“As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. Read the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. More details below: Tags: Obama Energy chrysler. by Kevin Krolicki, for Reuters.

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Will Obama’s billions jumpstart the electric car? The Green Piece

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If you listen to US President Barack Obama it has been a long time coming – his decision to pour $2.4billion of stimulus money to make America a global leader in electric and hybrid car development comes as the country plays catch up to the likes of Japan and even China in the green car race (see article ). “I Our verdict.

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NYC Goes EV

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From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. by Lars Vercelli.