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President Obama Awards $2.3B for Tax Credits for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs; GE Gets Largest Battery-related Award

Green Car Congress

President Obama announced the award of $2.3 The 183 projects in 43 states include several for the manufacturing of advanced batteries; biomass projects; and vehicles. It is designed for on-road service trucks to provide a quick charge to stranded battery electric vehicles similar to an “out-of-gas” situation.

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The United States plans to build charging piles in the wilderness

Setec Powerr

Unfortunately, you can’t drive an electric car, because there are almost no places to charge in public places. On Montana’s 147,000 square miles of land, the state’s latest count of charging points was just 57, most of which were concentrated in towns and cities rather than along highways.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Late this year, a new wave of electric vehicles will begin to arrive on the U.S. Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. by Lars Vercelli.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

This is a well written story in the Pasadena Star News about how the utilities are gearing up for the coming plug-in vehicles. That should be in plenty of time since even the most optimistic of us (that would be me:~) don’t expect much more than a million vehicles delivered nationwide by 2012. Photo by Eric Tom).

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Why NPR Hates Electric Cars - A Greenius Expose

Creative Greenius

The Focus is supposed to get 100 miles to a charge, but Frank is very worried about where people are going to plug in their cars. He also didn’t have a word to say about the coming smart grid or vehicle to grid connections. After my exhaustive investigation I now have the answers and they’re both simple and horrifying.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Plug them in, charge them up, drive silent, drive clean. You say you’re looking for something a little larger? This might have been the most important electric vehicle at the parade. That “V2G&# over the wheel stands for Vehicle to Grid. That’s what our friend Moira and her husband Dency do.

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