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California Energy Commission Approves $800K in four regional grants to prepare for electric vehicles

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Members of REVI will include San Diego County; the Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, San Diego, and Solana Beach; and three regional public agencies including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, and the San Diego Unified Port District.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

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Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. These incentives are reserved by vehicle manufacturers or their designated dealers, and the purchase prices for buyers are reduced by the incentive amounts. million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Busicom engineers had no interest in dumping their design in favor of Hoff’s unproved proposal. San Jose, Calif., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.”

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. ELECTRIC CARS ARE A CORE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE - NO PLUG? NO PURCHASE!

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

The California Public Utilities Commission, whose headquarters are in San Francisco, has brought together utilities, automakers and charging station companies in an urgent effort to write the new rules of the road. Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. San Jose Mercury News ).

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