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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Structural factors (Infrastructure decisions and global shocks to fuel prices) are going to do far more to determine which fuel source wins out — this is not purely demand-driven; this is an “If you build it, they will come&# situation.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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