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Drive Electric Earth Month Launches April 1 with 172 Events

Plug in America

Events will occur across 39 states, including Hawaii, with additional events in Canada. Plug In America, Electric Vehicle Association, Sierra Club, Drive Electric USA, and EVHybridNoire partnered to organize this year’s national campaign.

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DOE awards $15M to ASU-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership; data for scale-up of algal fuels

Green Car Congress

—Philip Pienkos, principal manager of the applied biology group at NREL and director of integration for ATP 3. Testbed facilities for the partnership are physically located in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Ohio and Georgia. This multi-regional testbed will address a major gap currently hindering the scale-up of algal biofuels.

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

Green Car Congress

4 projects will leverage the Electrocatalysis Consortium (ElectroCat) to accelerate the development of catalysts made without platinum group metals (PGM-free) for use in fuel cells for transportation. Developing Novel Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Alkaline Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions. Proton Energy Systems.

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smart fortwo electric drive Debuts in the US

Green Car Congress

smart USA Distributor LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Automotive Group, Inc. smart USA will begin deploying a fleet of 250 electric drive vehicles across the United States this fall, targeting key electrification leadership cities and Department of Energy grant areas. The smart fortwo electric drive. Click to enlarge.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

org for whom I founded and organized South Bay 350 Climate Action Group. So before it goes out completely forever, I’m headed for the mountains and the woods and the lake and Hawaii too. That’s exactly what I did, going to work for the South Bay Environmental Services Center, GRID Alternatives and of course 350.org

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chicago Tribune ) DaimlerChrysler 12/22/06 [DaimlerChrysler Group research chief Thomas Weber] played down the importance for passenger cars of plug-in hybrid technology that is getting lots of attention in the U.S. let me put it this way: as a technology group, we are very interested in the plug-in hybrid technology." (Bob

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. “It’s a very new way of doing things,&# said Gerard Magnin of Energie-Cites, a group of green local authorities. Bolivia is no friend of the USA. — Bill 7. In fact, almost none at all.

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