Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015. Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy. The new $2.4-billion

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JULY 3, 2010

President Obama announced in his weekly video address on 3 July that DOE has offered a conditional commitment for a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar, Inc. Abengoa Solar signed a power purchase agreement with APS, the state’s largest electric utility, to sell the energy produced by Solana for a period of 30 years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The Obama Administration is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes with a Federal commitment of $200 million across five Federal agencies: Defense, Energy, Commerce, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. Earlier post.). —DE-FOA-0000683. Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

President Obama used his last State-of-the-Union (SOTU) address of his term to outline four main elements of a blueprint for an “ economy that’s built to last: an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. ”. —President Obama.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 28, 2008

presidential candidates Barak Obama and John McCain are talking about EVs. Tags: Editorials candidates senator barak obama john mccain ev electric vehicle phev hybrid range extended campaign race 2008 energy sustainable clean solar wind biofuels diesel hydrogen. Are the candidates finally committed to electric vehicles?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. Details of the three winning consortia are as follows: Solar Energy : The consortium’s research will focus on sustainable photovoltaics, multiscale concentrated solar power, and solar energy integration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 —President Obama. billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

President Obama announced more than $467 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act will go to expand and accelerate the development, deployment, and use of geothermal and solar energy throughout the United States. Solar Energy. Solar Energy Deployment ($40.5 Geothermal Energy. DOE will provide $117.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In 2016, TCSA was amended by the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (signed into law by President Obama). New MMOs can also be used for semiconductors, and renewable energy generation and storage, such as solar cells and wind power turbines.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory. He began researching how solar energy technology worked. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2013

This program was signed into law by President Bush in 2008 and then awarded under the Obama administration in the years that followed. This is another important contribution to what the Obama Administration has done to preserve and promote America’s auto industry.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. Task Force Funding.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

In March, GM CEO Dan Akerson called on President Obama to appoint a Blue Ribbon Commission to develop a 30-year policy framework for energy security. It also is the leading automotive user of solar power in the United States and hosts two of the five largest rooftop solar arrays in the world.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

In October, President Obama issued a memorandum to executive departments and agencies directing agencies with federal laboratories to accelerate technology transfer and commercialization of research, and to take steps to increase partnerships between businesses and laboratories.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. China’s target to expand total energy consumption coming from zero-emission sources to around 20% by 2030 is “notable”, the White House said.

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MAY 19, 2009

US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2009

Now it seems that solar power may be taking the lead in the USA. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has revealed that his department is studying whether 670,000 acres of federal lands in six western states are suitable for the construction of large-scale solar power projects, according to reports in Yale Environment 360.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

President Obama today transmitted the proposed $3.8-trillion 302 million for solar energy. Solar energy. trillion FY 2011 Budget to the US Congress. The President’s 2011 Budget provides $28.354 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE) in discretionary budget authority—an 8.9% increase over FY 2009 actuals and a 7.4%

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Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. citizen volunteer climate change environment fossil fuels greenwashing renewable energy solar power. In the U.S.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 19, 2009

Case in point: we opened the paper on our arrival to see a full 1/4 page photo of this message greeting Obama from the sides of the train tracks on his big journey from Philadelphia to DC: Electric Cars: Yes We Can ! " " Surely these citizens deserve a cup of fair trade java and low interest solar panels for their communities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

The Obama Administration’s central estimate of the SCC would be approximately $50 per ton in today’s dollars. This is several times higher than conventional estimates of the benefits of reducing a metric ton of CO 2 emissions, a measure known as the social cost of carbon (SCC).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

For example, if you look at the page on Obama you find: * The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term. So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * Obama on cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

So far, President Barack Obama has announced no new federaleffort to promote the fuel, and federal funding for hydrogen fortransportation use in the 2009 budget dropped to $177.7 Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

In his remarks at NETL, Secretary Moniz said: In the last four years, we’ve more than doubled renewable energy generation from wind and solar power. The increase in efficiency translates to electrical energy cost savings of approximately $450,000 annually.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We know that Secretary of Energy Moniz recently admitted that the Obama administration’s ambitious and encouraging goal of one million EVs on American roads by 2015 is unattainable. We have done our part to bring very competitive and viable vehicles to market but we have to have a market that encourages their sale.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 22, 2009

Ed, you may remember, gave President Obama a tour of the same facility a couple of months ago, which may account for the strong support we’re seeing from Obama’s administration for plug-in cars. More meetings are planned at our houses so they can see how the solar PV integrates so well with the cars.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

China’s just committed to a 50% solar subsidy in the last 30 days, Westly told us. And in the US, not only is the Obama administration providing a major stimulus program, but 31 states are enacting incentives and mandates to require clean alternative energy for utilities.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

That’s right my friends, while others are cutting back, downsizing, slowing down and pulling back, your Creative Greenius is not only Ready to Go, I’m already going, baby, and I’m moving at Obama speed. Using AB 811 To Finance Solar PV Installation : Finding the Green to Green the Grid, House By House.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The DOT is making $48.1 Of that, $26.5

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APRIL 29, 2009

Many of the EFRCs address multiple energy challenges that are linked by common scientific themes—such as interfacial chemistry for solar energy conversion and electrical energy storage or rational design of materials for multiple potential energy applications.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 17, 2009

I heard that Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, was giving the commencement address at CalTech recently, so I jumped in our solar-powered RAV and drove over to Pasadena to hear what he had to say. Those of us in the EV movement were overjoyed when Obama picked Dr. Chu to head the Energy Department. He did not disappoint.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

For those of you who aren’t boarding the ClueTrain on this issue, just connect the dots between this strategic move on the part of the Obama administration and the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Talks. We’re going to be plugging in our next cars and generating our own electricity from solar, wind and geothermal.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

Inspired by President Obama’s election and the collapse of the ponzi scheme economy, I decided to work full time, pro bono, on the issues I cared about most – climate change, renewable energy, energy conservation and sustainability. See you around campus.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. On the national level, the Obama administration has set the goal of 1 million plug-in hybrids on U.S. Tags: EV Chargers EV Economics Obama Energy New York City. That represents only 1.43

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama announced $3.4 Map of the 100 smart grid awards. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

President Obama has stated a commitment to 1 million plug-in cars by 2015. Tags: biofuels nissan GM zev mandate cafe standards barack obama battery electric car. In the past industry ultimately called the shots. Today the federal government holds the cards. The taxpayer is financing the American automakers’ survival and their future.

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