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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

No pollution, well-to-wheels. I charge at night, when rates are lowest, so there’s a speck of non-renewable energy in my battery. “I’ve had to pay the electric meter charge, but not a penny for the actual energy.” ” Those criteria pollutants matter a hell of a lot, too, as the WHO notes.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The project will include 27 alternative fuel stations (16 CNG, 7 B20/E85, one B20, three Electric Charging) and deploy 373 alternative fuel and advance technology vehicles (235 CNG, 58 HEV, two LPG, two EV). Metropolitan Energy Information Center’s Midwest Region Alternative Fuels Project. Total DOE award: $14,999,658.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. The SF90 also holds the lap record for production cars on the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 second pace.

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