Revenge of the Electric Car

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When Bob Met Elon … and Chris

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s and a prime mover behind the development of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. s and a prime mover behind the development of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. s, but discarded the idea as unnecessary. Chris Paine, Elon Musk, Bob Lutz. More details after the jump : Detroit’s Electric Avenue: The Street of Dreams?

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Cash for Volts?

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to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress.&#. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

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The Leaf is just the first of several all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles about to come on the market. “By the end of the year there will be thousands of these cars in Americans’ hands, and once people have them, it’s game over,&# said Paul Scott of the advocacy group Plug In America. By Dana Hull.

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Are You Plugged In?

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Are You Plugged In? Some of the first plug-in electric passenger vehicles are slated to roll onto U.S. How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. By Mara Lemos Stein.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

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home as “the Plug-In Mecca&# to tell this EV story right. Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times. The Whole Life Times just published an Interview with Chris : The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Filmmaker Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

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This is a well written story in the Pasadena Star News about how the utilities are gearing up for the coming plug-in vehicles. Photo by Eric Tom). The new digital meters are being installed by the thousands in many utility districts, and in SoCal Edison’s case, they expect to be fully installed by 2012. By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

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They own the hybrid market and are doing quite well, thank you, so why adopt a whole new technology that’s untried on a large scale? Those who make the decisions to forgo battery EVs in favor of plug- in hybrids only ignore a sizable market. (That’s Tokyo time, it’ll still be the 1st here.)

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