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News Summary I

Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G. Cars: It's a Start February 5, 2006 Cities to seek plug-in hybrids Janurary 24, 2006 Coalition Turns On to 'Plug-In Hybrids' January 26, 2006 More News

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

Though he’d previously been too busy to focus on environmental concerns, he went solar in 2013 after seeing Al Gore’s global warming red-alert, “An Inconvenient Truth,” then bought a used Nissan Leaf two years later. When there’s an oil spill, she says, lots of bad things happen.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers. And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

The income cap returns, although now with much lower limits—individuals buying a new EV with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of more than $150,000, heads of households with an AGI of more than $225,000, or joint filers with an AGI of more than $300,000 would not qualify any longer. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array.