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DOE to Award Up to $2.4B for Advanced Batteries, Electric Drive Components, and Electric Drive Vehicle Demonstration/Deployment Projects

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released two competitive solicitations that will provide up to a combined $2.4 For purposes of production volume estimation each PHEV battery must be capable of delivering at least 5 kWh of available energy (total production of 100,000 to 500,000 kWh).

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

See the complete Energy report. is 50 mph and its nominal range is 50 miles; it retails for about $12,000. Myers’s NmG—or no more gas—is a three-wheel, one-seat vehicle that can travel up to 75 mph and as far as 50 miles in its lithium-battery model. GM calls the Volt an extended-range electric vehicle, or EREV.

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