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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Green Car Congress

University of Washington, Seattle. Develop and demonstrate technologies to enable a downsized, boosted, lean, low temperature gasoline combustion engine system that improves fuel economy while meeting emissions requirements. General Motors. HRL Laboratories, LLC. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Felix and I might differ on that -- Felix and I were talking the other day -- but we dont expect the battery and the battery maintenance to be part of the ownership cost of your car. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! Its not in todays Prius and we wouldnt expect that in the future. It is something we are seriously looking at.

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