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Mayor Menino Adds Boston

Plug In Partners

Boston joins in the Plug-In Campaign. In addition, I joined mayors from across the country in a national effort to support the National Plug-in Hybrid Campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to demonstrate to automobile manufacturers that there is a market for flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles. By Mayor Thomas M.

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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

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. 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

Green Car Congress

that substantially reduce costs of the motor. Arlington). the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. and smaller footprint TES system at a low cost representing. almost a 75% reduction in the cost of TES. Pacific Northwest.

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