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$26.4B DOE FY 2010 Budget Request Cuts Funding for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles; With Recovery Act Funding Boosts Support for PHEVs, Biomass and Biorefineries

Green Car Congress

Increases in Lightweight Materials Technology (+$11.7M) will support R&D and pilot-scale demonstrations for reducing the costs of automotive aluminum, magnesium, and carbon-fiber components and structures. Alternative fueled vehicles pilot grant program: $300 million. Fuel cell technologies: $43.4

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

Green Car Congress

We are starting with optimizing our conventional drive trains—the TDI diesel engines, the TSI engines, the DSG transmission, all of those technologies have helped us to lower our fuel consumption a lot. We have different alternative fuels in our program such as CNG and LPG, we are working on some synthetic fuel.

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