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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. Sacramento Municipal Util.

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BMW bringing 4-cylinder gasoline engines back to the US; more diesels to come

Green Car Congress

So we continue to concentrate our innovation on making every new generation of BMW gas and diesel engines more efficient, cleaner, and better performing than the one that preceded it. But does this mean none of us should continue with electrical vehicle development? —Jim O’Donnell.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. These include Pacific Gas and Electric, Kansas City Power and Light and Edison Electric Institute , the trade association for IOUs (see quote below). The press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. Keene, N.H.,

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Heidi On The Hot Seat

Creative Greenius

It’s a daunting task made ever more difficult by the ambitious goal of those action plans - reducing our region’s greenhouse gas emissions 7% below what they were in 1990 - in just the next four years, by 2012. It hardly seems fair. The Greenius wishes the Govenator walked the walk as well as he talks the talk.

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Rory Cooper’s Wheelchair Tech Makes the World More Accessible

Cars That Think

He then turned to building a better wheelchair and came up with an electric-powered version that helped its user stand up. The VCJ-CA lets users customize the driving controls of electric-powered wheelchairs and is used today in just about every such chair. Then he met Charles Robinson at an IEEE conference that year in Seattle.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $17M to support alternative fuel and infrastructure projects

Green Car Congress

The additional funding will cover demonstration projects of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric and range-extended hybrid electric/natural gas heavy-duty drayage trucks operating at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. These four chargers will serve customers of Car2Go, an electric vehicle car-share program.

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Garage Lessons: Charging in The Real World

Plugs and Cars

I participated in the Governor''s Office Conference Coast-to-Coast Workshop on E-Mobility in Sacramento sponsored by the governments of California and the Netherlands on Wednesday. For the past decade I''ve been driving the 91 miles to Sacramento without stopping to charge in a 2002 RAV4 EV. The meeting was informative.

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