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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy refueling stations and alternative fuel vehicles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Total DOE award: $15,000,000. Total DOE award: $12,975,388. Total DOE award: $12,299,828.

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PHEV Day 149, Friday, 6 March 2009. "Spirit of DC".The First EVer PHEV in Bonham, Texas!

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Later, after recharging at John & Nancy, the "Spirit" made a run to the North Texas Mensa "Texas Hold'em," in East Dallas and returned with a 69.8MPG for 81 miles, doing in the process some 99.9MPG fro 13 or so miles. Jack lives in Murray, UT and wants to get into the EV conversion business, maybe even PHEV conversion business!

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Abengoa Solar Inc.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. Much of the technology needed is still a distant dream ?

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