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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

Green Car Congress

The Regents of the University of California (Davis, California) will seek to develop an innovative, reliable, and cost-effective Bidirectional Rotor Tidal Turbine for tidal MHK applications. Northwest Energy Innovations (Portland, Oregon) will verify ocean wavelength performance for a new multimode floating point absorber wave energy device.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

And a return to Professor Andy Frank at UC- Davis 2. Note: the Green Train leave on its six week venture from Portland and is en route to DC. Nevada: Las Vegas EVA 3. Arizona: Flagstaff EAA and Phoenix EAA. PHEV3A Planning for 2009 Kick-off and Return to DC: A.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Dan Sperling, the director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, estimated that a typical electric car battery would cost the automaker $12,000, and a 240-volt charging unit would cost a household at least $1,500.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicles converted by Professor Andy Frank and his team at the UC Davis Hybrid Center are listed at our History of PHEVs page , with further info at www.team-fate.net. Full size photo UC-Davis, Prius by Green Gears , Oct 2007 (Davis, CA), contact nick. In addition, see the EAA-PHEV list , which sometimes gets ahead of this list.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. 1 Jack Haddad 2 dividendgrowthinv.