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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

These homeowners generate their electricity and many of them put energy back into the grid, and they’ve still had to pay these ridiculous charges,” said MAEAA President Al Pugsley. Clyde Schwanke’s backyard in Topeka, complete with his Nissan LEAF and Ford C=max Plugin.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don’t have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly. The potential impacts of PEVs on climate change are of particular concern. “ We do need a national energy policy.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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