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Ford Exec Cites US Energy Policies As Critical Factor in Shaping Future Vehicle Fleet, Calls for Cap-and-Trade Program

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Actual and projected greenhouse gas emissions for passenger vehicles by region/country through 2022. Cischke cited the recent agreement on one national standard for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions regulations as an example of how the government, the auto industry and the environmental community can work together toward common goals.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. Today we are under attack.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

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Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. But many feel the electric car’s time has arrived.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Chris Paine’s film “ Who Killed the Electric Car ? He sent the story to KFWB News 980 and to President-elect Barack Obama.

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USCAR Argues for Continued US Funding of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Research

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the Obama Administration’s focus on nearer-term vehicle technologies to reduce. USCAR was founded in 1992 with the goal of strengthening the technology base of the US auto industry through cooperative research and development. Council (NRC) assessing the strategy and structure of the Department of Energy’s.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

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A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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We are all stampeding towards an electric vehicle future. For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. 0.9 - 0.95X. 0.8 - 0.85X.

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