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

Green Car Congress

AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

Now they’re understanding it with a gusto all the way from the halls of power in Washington DC to corporate offices across the country. Charged : For example, one of your customers has a site where they’re not allowed to do any digging because of hazardous waste. I would never have thought of that. So that’s fleet. This is not theory.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 6.23% Lam Research Corporation 27.89

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