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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I Too bad the cars were no longer available by then.” Two decades of teaching about driving electric.

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Castor Bean Genome Published

Green Car Congress

Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), University of Maryland School of Medicine, published the sequence and analysis of the castor bean ( Ricinus communis ) genome in Nature Biotechnology. A research team co-led by scientists from the J. Jatropha is also an oilseed crop. X coverage was conducted at JCVI.

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DOE and USDA Award $6.3M for Genomics-Enabled Biofuels Research

Green Car Congress

University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. This grant seeks to understand winter survival in switchgrass populations and individual plants specifically selected for greater yields and with known differences in winter survival by studying molecular events occurring in the crowns and rhizomes during two growing seasons and winters.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. in planning overnight charging locations and events. Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska.