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Fast charger comes to Voltageville: Envisioning the Future

Plugs and Cars

In 2001 I began driving an electric car, obtaining the last of the ZEV mandate-required EVs. The DOE grant to the Etec EV Project will put 260 Level III chargers in the ground in the next two years. I got enthused just as the automakers, CARB, the feds, and major environmental organizations ended their various flirtations with EVs.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. home | search | site map | contact.

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Univ. of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Team Up On Li-Air Batteries, 5 Other Renewable Energy and Biomedical Technology Projects

Green Car Congress

The other winning projects in the renewable energy category are: High-efficiency hybrid solar cells based on carbon nanotube enhanced nanostructures. Goal: Integrate single-walled carbon nanotubes into existing silicon and polymer photovoltaic devices to create high-efficiency hybrid solar cells.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

But I will admit that one thing has changed even more than the size of our electric bill and that’s the size of the solar PV system we now need to generate 100% of our electricity – because the same moves that cut our electric bill also cut the number of solar panels we need by 50% too.

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