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EcoCAR 2 Year One Winner: Mississippi State University

Green Car Congress

EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future named Mississippi State University, with its series-parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle design, the Year One winner at the EcoCAR 2012 Competition in Los Angeles. The 15 universities competing in EcoCAR 2 gathered for six days of judged competition for $100,000 in prize money.

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Mississippi State University Takes First in Year Two of EcoCAR Competition With Biodiesel EREV

Green Car Congress

Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego, Calif. The Mississippi State University EcoCAR team chose to design an EREV hybrid with a 21.3 GM turbodiesel engine and 75 kW UQM generator in a series plug-in configuration. It’s also equipped with a 1.3L

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GreenTech Auto shutters its doors, closes Mississippi factory

Green Car Reports

The harsh reality of high costs and the inexorable heft of the auto industry have claimed another electric-car startup. GreenTech Automotive opened a plant in Mississippi in 2014, first saying it would manufacture a small, two-seat electric vehicle called the MyCar there.

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Ohio State takes first place in DOE/GM EcoCAR 3 competition

Green Car Congress

Ohio State EcoCAR built a series-parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powered by E85. At the end of the second week, students had the opportunity to display their completed hybrid-electric Chevrolet Camaros with a car show at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle. This is OSU’s fourth consecutive win. Horiba; DENSO; Champlain Cable Corp.;

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Minnesota Plug-in Law

Plug In Partners

R epresentative Frank Hornstein reports that House File 3718 has passed, and that Minnesota is the first state to join the push for plug-in hybrids. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine. Plug in Partners has a new Companion Become a Partner today.

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News: 10 Best States To Own an EV

Clean Fleet Report

That shouldn’t surprise anyone since it parallels what we know about conventional car ownership. What makes having an electric car a positive experience is not only financial aspects, but a functional ones, something the folks at Jerry have taken into account when they did the research behind their Top 10 list of the best states to own an EV.

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Future Cars: Concept EVs for 2023 and Beyond

Clean Fleet Report

Lexus EV Sports Car. This flagship car for Faraday Future will be produced in limited quantities with production beginning in Hanford, California, in late 2022, so customer deliveries could be sometime in 2023. Lexus Sports Car. A Quick Look at What Is on the Electric Horizon. Faraday Future FF 91. Polestar Precept. Polestar 02.

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