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Electric Cars: Yes We Will

Revenge of the Electric Car

Dateline: Washington, DC. The buzz is everywhere and completely electric in Washington DC this week. And some of that energy is headed directly to plug-in cars. We’ve heard electric cars mentioned time and again in our two days here, and we haven’t even been to Live Earth’s Green Gala yet.

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Electric Cars - Yes We Can!

Plugs and Cars

[©Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post] East Coast - Along the route President-elect Obama rode on his way to DC, electric car activists spell it out. West Coast - 75 electric vehicles paraded through the streets of Santa Monica in a pre-Inaugural Parade with a message for the President-elect.

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Txchnologist: 1 Million Electric Cars On U.S. Roads By 2015?

All Cars Electric

Energy Secretary Steven Chu stood in the rain before a row of electric cars parked on the median at the Department of Energy's massive complex in Washington, DC, speaking to a crowd of journalists, carmakers, and utility executives. Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics, touted President Obama's goal of putting 1 million.

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WashPost: Volt Caused GM's woes

Plugs and Cars

Charles Lane is a member of the editorial page staff of the Washington Post. To be sure, the green-leaning Obama administration has not ruled out allowing a restructured GM to continue pouring (federal) money into the Volt. The Volt and other electric vehicles could gobble up more subsidies than ethanol." But I hope it won't.

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Trainspotting

Revenge of the Electric Car

©Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post. One morning just over a year ago, I was surprised to see the above photo taken from President Obama’s Washington, DC-bound train appear in a Washington Post collection from the inauguration. Tags: Obama Energy chel. But when we really do get it done?

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday.

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