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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Minneapolis-St.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

The other challenge was where to charge the EV. Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., There were two Level 2 charging stations about six blocks away in a grocery store parking lot, but that was not a convenient or reliable option. has no EV chargers in its five-story indoor parking garage.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

Cars That Think

and especially California,” he says, “has come at the cost of exacerbating the air, water and soil pollution of Asian societies.” Another way of expressing this relationship is that improving air quality of the U.S. He believes that, at some point, US foreign policy will likely held accountable for US EV industrial policy.