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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. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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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.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49

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