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7-state Midwest EVOLVE project to promote electric vehicles; Ford, GM, Nissan initial automotive partners

Green Car Congress

The American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest announced the launch of Midwest EVOLVE , a three-year project to promote electric vehicles in seven Midwestern states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. The Midwest is often overlooked as a market for electric vehicles.

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Junkyard Find: 1993 Nissan Sentra with 320,165 miles

The Truth About Cars

With Nissan machinery, however, the bar is lower; today's Junkyard Find should make both Yokohama and Smyrna proud. I feel certain that the pasted-together-from-many-taxis Nissan Tsuru I found last year belongs in this list, but I can't prove it. The Mexican-market commercials for this car are more fun.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. Look at the T.

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