Plug In Partners
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
Mike Easley said Tuesday that, depending on the support from federal grants, the state may give $5 million to start and $1 million annually to operate the Advanced Transportation Energy Center there. State to be leaders in creating a workforce for advanced transportation. America's ready to go where North Carolina's ready to go."
Plugs and Cars
JULY 31, 2008
One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. The conference attendees heard the now familiar if increasingly impassioned representatives of the utility industry trumpet the benefits of electricity for transportation.
Plug In Partners
JANUARY 28, 2008
W e've had the people in our shop go over the new energy bill with an eye for Plug Ins and electric transportation in general. DOE to provide grants for electric transportation projects such as truck stop electrification, airport ground support equipment, electric rail, etc. $95 90 million per year authorized (2008-2012).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Only PHEVs and battery EVs get cleaner as they get older - because the electric grid gets cleaner every decade.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.
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