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National Academies report finds US interstate highways need major overhaul; calls for 20-year blueprint for action

Green Car Congress

All dollar figures are converted 2016 values. The committee noted, however, that these estimates may be low, because they do not include funding required to reconfigure and reconstruct many of the interstates’ 15,000 interchanges or make the system more resilient to the effects of climate change. National Academy of Sciences.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

Green Car Congress

Natural gas has also revitalized several domestic industries and reduced the US trade imbalance. At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. Such fuels could lower greenhouse gas emissions from transportation compared with gasoline and diesel fuel.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. I would have thought we would be beyond that point and further along in understanding the solar industry, but apparently I’m wrong.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. He's an actual engineer, with a B.S.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. He's an actual engineer, with a B.S.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug In America makes no representations as to the workmanship, creditworthiness, or any other attributes of the companies listed or of their products or services. org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. February 15, 2010.