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California Air Resources Board Pushes for Restoration of DOE Funding for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles; Tackles the Four Miracles

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ARB staff cited an Idaho national Laboratory estimate that the average cost of adding a home 120V, 20A circuit to charge one PHEV would be $878/vehicle, and a 240V circuit needed for a PHEV-30 or PHEV-40 would costs $1,500-$2,100 per vehicle. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Star to Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

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OTC: GSPI) announced today that within the next four weeks it plans to publicly test its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). President Barack Obamas New Energy For America program calls for deployment of 1 million plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2015, and on March 19, 2009, he announced programs directing $2.4 energy independence.

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NHTSA Modeling and Technology Projections Underlying the Proposed CAFE Target of 34.1 mpg by MY 2016

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In developing technology inputs for MY 2012-2016 standards, NHTSA and EPA reviewed, as requested by President Obama in his January 26 memorandum, the technology assumptions that NHTSA used in setting the MY 2011 standards and the comments that NHTSA received in response to its May 2008 NPRM. Technologies.

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