article thumbnail

Pennsylvania Awards Axion Power $800,000 to Demonstrate PbC Batteries in Hybrids, PHEVs and EVs

Green Car Congress

The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. 170,850 to buy down the incremental cost of 240,000 gallons biodiesel blended fuel for use by six municipalities and school districts. Advance Materials Corp.

article thumbnail

EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

Green Car Congress

Energy-related CO 2 emissions buy state, 2010. mt CO 2 ); and Pennsylvania (256.6 Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 tonnes/person).

2010 236
article thumbnail

Rental Review: The 2023 Chevrolet Malibu, Last Domestic Midsize Standing

The Truth About Cars

.& After 720 miles to Pennsylvania and back, the Malibu returned 33.1 Quite literally all its competition is newer, has 30-40 more horsepower, and has a better fuel economy rating for the same or slightly less money. miles per gallon. While that’s not bad, it’s not stunning either. And that sums up most of the Malibu’s personality.

article thumbnail

Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require.

Power 52
article thumbnail

Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla.

article thumbnail

Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla.

article thumbnail

DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

Green Car Congress

The goal is for the projects to advance technologies early enough in their development cycles to permit the full scope of their technical benefits to be shared across a broad cross-section of the domestic economy. Technology; University of California Santa Barbara; and The Pennsylvania State. The Pennsylvania State. University.