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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

Green Car Congress

. $505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. In 2007 the company developed Mission One, a high performance electric motorcycle. Earlier post.) 2,962,743 to Leyden Energy, Inc., Leyden Energy, Inc. By displacing petroleum-based diesel, the 5.25

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. This will be five percent of the nation’s vehicle population.

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