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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

Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The DOT is making $48.1

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos 1. Obama Calls for Simpler Tax Code 185 comments 2. The quality of conversations can deteriorate when real identities are not provided. An account already exists for the email address entered. Forgot your username or password?

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Bring on the EV Trucks

Revenge of the Electric Car

The more the merrier, the market for these is going to explode soon with Obama’s stimulation plan, and its tax of $7,500 to $15,000 for electric trucks. Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). Now EVI believes cash-strapped U.S.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Do the simple math, Obama (ho,ho) and learn just how stupid thou really art.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. April 12, 2009 2:08 pm Link Obama’s “Social Democratic&# dream will be further unveiled after the failure of GM and Chrysler is certain and on the books.

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