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PSU, Partners to Evaluate Toyota Prius PHEV

Green Car Congress

Portland State University (PSU) and its Oregon partners, including Portland General Electric, have been selected by Toyota as one of six groups nationally to demonstrate and evaluate the next-generation Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV). Portland State University will administer the program regionally.

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Toyota chooses Prius Plug-in demonstration venue

Green Cars News

Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Toyota plug-in hybrid cars plug-in hybrid electric cars Portland Portland Oregon Portland State University Toyota Prius Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Its car share program, Hertz on Demand, launched in December 2008 and grew to more than 1,000 vehicles, 85,000 members and more than 500 locations worldwide, including corporate fleets, airports, hotels, utilities, government, and universities. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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Legacy Automakers and the Tesla EV Narrative

EV Adoption

But the automakers and dealers need to invest in something like an “EV University” that would train sales people not only on how to educate buyers about EVs and especially the EV charging process – but how to counter Tesla comparisons. Portland-based Chargeway has a beacon display solution designed just for this purpose.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Cars That Think

Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. Abstract: In nature, living creatures show versatile behaviors.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Headquarters: Phoenix, AZ Manufacturing: Phoenix, AZ and Northern California Deployment: Portland, Salem, Eugene and Corvallis, OR; Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; Phoenix and Tucson, AZ; Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, TN. Purdue University.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. NREL, June 2006 Toyota Prius by EnergyCS Golden, CO Terry_Penney@. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada).

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