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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Develop, validate, and deploy 220 advanced plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans. Manufacturing: Elkhart County, IN; Deployment: Portland, Chicago, and Sacramento. Chrysler LLC. $70. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). Navistar, Inc.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) The average new vehicle costs around $28,000, and most midsize cars are in the $20,000 to $25,000 range." -- ( Chicago Tribune ).

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