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U of Michigan Study Finds Costs of Plug-in Cars Primary Key to Broad Consumer Acceptance

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A newly released University of Michigan study found widespread consumer interest in buying plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; however, the cost of the cars is much more influential than environmental and other non-economic factors as a predictor of purchase probabilities. Source: Curtin et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

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Two of the teams, University of Waterloo and Missouri University of Science and Technology, designed a Fuel Cell Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle which uses an onboard hydrogen fuel cell to either propel the vehicle or recharge a battery pack. Tags: Conferences and other events Hybrids Plug-ins.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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As one of the speakers put it to the attendees, the bulk of which came from Southeast Michigan, plug-in vehicles will a major career path for most of the people in the room. Infrastructure, recharging and business models. Topics covered the expected gamut of policy (especially carbon policy), infrastructure, batteries and consumers.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Michigan: $2,200,000.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. Batteries that go farther than the competitions and recharge in a shorter time will win. Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. The business world hopes shes right. Can Motown catch up to the rest of the world?

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. transportable like fuels, 100% renewable, rechargeable like a. Michigan State. University of Michigan). develop tobacco plants with leaves that contain fuel. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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