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Sandia’s Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory Awarded $4.2M

Green Car Congress

million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to modify and enhance its existing Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab), with the goal of developing low-cost batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. With the recent stimulus funds, the BATLab will be able to greatly increase the number of tests it does.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

sensor units mounted on buildings to stream data via Wi-Fi to Web-based mapping programs. Sensors that mount on buildings can just plug into a wall outlet. This has been the experience of hundreds of Californians. Too many did not make it out of their beds, let alone their homes. These particular networks use.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Still, the company will respond to a push by theObama administration for carmakers to sell plug-ins, he said. “We We are thinking about plug-in hybrids, but we aren’tthinking about commercializing one right away,” Fukui said. We are thinking aboutextending that application to plug-in hybrids.” General Motors Corp., at 4:01 p.m.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

This is a well written story in the Pasadena Star News about how the utilities are gearing up for the coming plug-in vehicles. Photo by Eric Tom). The new digital meters are being installed by the thousands in many utility districts, and in SoCal Edison’s case, they expect to be fully installed by 2012. By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. February 15, 2010. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Greenius Is Fired Up Over Obama’s Green Economic Recovery Bill!

Creative Greenius

This bill is not only the most sweeping economic recovery package in our nation’s history, it’s also the greenest. Tags: carbon producers Voters renewable energy fossil fuels campaign citizen volunteer environment green building politics plug-in cars climate change Yes We Can! Some people never will.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

This is a global challenge, to which different countries can contribute in different ways, and the big picture must be in view. Advantage goes to countries that contribute in multiple ways. New for 2020: this is an EV ranking, not a complete ranking for how cool countries are. This year, though, I used his input into the EU-sanctioned eafo.eu

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