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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

It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities. AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, Oregon: $750,000.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Sokol, who now sits on BYDs board, says BYD could instead become a battery supplier to global automakers.

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