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Mayor Menino Adds Boston

Plug In Partners

The purpose of the campaign is to demonstrate to automobile manufacturers that there is a market for flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles. The cost of charging the battery of a PHEV is estimated to be just 50-75 cents per gallon equivalent. more Here is the list of City Partners as of today. We expect some more big ones soon.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Electric Vehicles, University of Delaware). Advanced Electric Vehicle Motors with Low or No Rare Earth. generations of advanced electric vehicles. electric vehicle motors use expensive, imported rare earth. delivers more power than many vehicle motors with greater. efficiency at less cost. Arlington).

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