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EV Fun Run!

Electric Auto Association

EVA members can qualify for the ‘Best EV’ and ‘Best Conversion EV’ awards, Martinson continued. The “Mother Road,” as John Steinbeck coined it in his classic 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath , winds from Chicago to Los Angeles, passing through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

Green Car Congress

Smart, Compact, Efficient 500kW DC Fast Charger Cree Fayetteville (operating as Wolfspeed, A Cree Company) and its project team will build a DC fast charger for electric vehicles using a solid-state transformer based on silicon carbide (SiC). Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. CIRCUITS awards. Organization. Description.

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

Green Car Congress

University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. 3,123,750.

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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

EVJerry traveled with the RAR caravan as an advance scout vehicle in the All American “Spirit of DC”. The EVADC chapter became the lead sponsor of an EVducational Tour, called the "Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle).