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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. lawmakers are supportive of the idea.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

The campus and their housing will cost peanuts and you can negotiate a tremendous tax break investment deal with the emergency managers of the city. I’d even be willing to leave my current great job with CBS EcoMedia and relocate from my comfortable Southern California lifestyle to be a small part of the team. Now is the moment.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. and Chrysler struggle to come up with business plans that regulators will embrace. Advocacy groups argue the task force’s assessment is shortsighted and worry that the Volt project may land in the scrap heap as G.M. rolls toward bankruptcy. and Chrysler. .

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The utility can then juggle small amounts of power back and forth to the cars battery packs, helping the utility level its power from moment-to-moment, providing voltage regulation, spinning reserves and other functions. I love the idea of powering my car from solar power. Better yet, make a tax-deductible contribution.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? ’s power generation, he said. While utilities such as E.ON

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CDM Baby, CDM Ruminations on Vegas and NASCAR California Dreamin' ► February (16) Car Sharing and Saving in a Tough Economy Throwing down the gauntlet to Secretary Clinton Weather Does Not Equal Climate The Hub Lab Seeks Revolutionary New Energy Science. Ethanol – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Beautif. SZ (1) 6753.T

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