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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Array Technologies (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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& However, the paper doesn’t favor everyone running out to buy the largest diesel pickup they can afford. Those programs have since been adopted in New York City; Tampa, Florida; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Columbia, Missouri; and Eugene, Oregon.& The issue, as framed in the study, isn’t that EVs still pose a problem.