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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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Mayors Join Drive

Plug In Partners

Conference of Mayors Join Drive for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles LAS VEGAS—June 5, 2006— The U.S. Conference of Mayors today unanimously endorsed a resolution encouraging the use of plug-in hybrid vehicles as an important step in reducing this country’s reliance on foreign oil and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Roger Duncan gives Campaign Update The Plug-In Partners National Campaign has now been underway for six months. We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX.,

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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

Plug-in hybrid buses purchase: Replace 4 diesel buses with 4 series plug-in hybrid buses, operate in a non-urban/rural area and collect data for two years. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Thunder Bay Transportation Authority – TBTA, Michigan: $2,590,000. as well as administrative and dispatch services.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

Cars That Think

Bob Kahn Soon after he arrived at DARPA, Congress pulled the plug on funding for the proposed automated-manufacturing effort. A plaque commemorating the ARPANET now stands in front of the Arlington, Va., Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966. Kahn shrugged his shoulders and figured he’d go back to MIT.

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

Green Car Congress

Arlington). the electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. This “plug-n-use” technology will enable reliable. . $2,319,474. Pacific Northwest. National Laboratory. Ames Laboratory, Electron Energy Corp, United Technologies. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. during the drive cycle.

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