Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2009

New York Times reports the expected change in federal policy will happen Monday.the centerpiece of Monday’s East Room announcement is Mr. Obama’s directive to the Environmental Protection Agency to immediately begin work on granting the so-called California waiver, which allows the state, a longtime leader in air quality matters, to set its own standards (..)

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Providing a toolkit for climate resilience. Energy Efficiency.

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JULY 20, 2010

Organizations representing auto manufacturers, electric utilities and the electric drive industry are calling on President Obama to establish a new National Electric Fuel Task Force to help accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $2.4

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Eisenhower in 1960, Bill Clinton in 1999, and now Barack Obama, yesterday. Only three U.S. presidents in history have visited the Detroit Auto Show in its century-plus of existence: Dwight D.

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MARCH 30, 2012

USGS is announcing the latest awardees for grants it issues through its John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis. US Geological Survey – Big Data for Earth System Science. million in support for a focused research group of statisticians and. transform teaching and learning.

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JUNE 30, 2009

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. President Obama. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Earlier post.)

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MAY 5, 2009

US President Barack Obama has established a Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to further the research, development and commercialization of biofuels. This is a very aggressive directive from the President.”

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APRIL 2, 2012

On 13 October 2010, EPA granted the first partial waiver for E15 for use in MY2007 and newer light-duty motor vehicles. On 21 January 2011, EPA granted the second partial waiver for E15 for use in MY2001-2006 light-duty motor vehicles. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2009

Following months of anticipation, President Barack Obama has finally announced 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects that will receive a total of $2.4billion in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. If you’d like to read a full list of the award recipients, click here.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

US President Barack Obama has announced $3.4billion in grant awards to fund a broad range of smart grid technologies and projects. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Barack Obama plug-in hybrid electric vehicles SmartGrid SmartGrid investment US President Barack Obama.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 23, 2009

Tags: EV Economics Inside Track Obama Energy Ford Nissan Tesla.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I The grant provided the seed money to launch their startup that year: Green Village Electricity Projects of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I still remember the number, down to the last dollar.”

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JULY 2, 2009

The US state of California has been granted a waiver request enabling it to enforce its own greenhouse gas emissions standard for new cars starting with the current model year. Tags: Green cars Green credentials Latest news Barack Obama California California emissions standards California emissions waiver EPA Pavley requirements.

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MAY 19, 2009

US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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JUNE 22, 2010

The new program builds on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a new interagency collaboration launched by President Obama in June 2009, between the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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MARCH 22, 2012

Over the past three years, the Department has invested $170 million in research grants at more than 70 universities, supporting R&D into a full spectrum of technologies, from advanced reactor concepts to enhanced safety design.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Now that they’ve proven unworthy of any bipartisanship I’m looking forward to watching President Obama, and the vast majority of Americans who support him, beat these bad guys like a boogie woogie piano man playing eight to the bar.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The Obama Administration’s proposed FY 2013 budget of $8.344 billion for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $105 million below the EPA’s enacted level for FY 2012. billion in categorical grants for states that are implementing environmental statutes such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

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APRIL 2, 2018

The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high. The California waiver is still being reexamined by EPA.

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APRIL 8, 2011

The Obama administration has set a goal of installing 10,000 flexible fuel pumps nationwide within 5 years. In addition to flexible fuel pumps being eligible for funding under REAP, Vilsack noted that: Grants are available for audits of energy improvements and studies to determine the feasibility of renewable energy systems; and.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 18, 2009

With the promise that he will scrutinise how every dollar is spent as the US bids to stage an economic recovery, President Barack Obama has released a strategic vision for a high-speed passenger rail system in the US.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2009

Department of Energy (DOE) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Grant to continue its efforts to design, develop and manufacture a cost-competitive commercial hybrid truck drive system. The Allison Transmission DOE grant will further increase U.S. Tags: Hybrid cars Allison DOE grant hybrid. million U.S.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

billion investment the Obama Administration already devoted to a national high-speed rail system—including $8 billion of Recovery Act funds and $2.5 This long-term commitment builds on the $10.5-billion billion from the 2010 budget.

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MAY 26, 2010

Earlier, the Obama Administration outlined the “round-the-clock” scientific support from the Department of Energy and National Labs to help inform strategies to stop the BP oil spill.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A Fully funded, the ChargePoint America program would cost $37 million, with some of the shortfall for the actual station installations being addressed, the organizers hope, through state and local grants.&#. A $2,000 value!).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

President Barack Obama last week ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the EPA’s earlier denial of the waiver to California to implement its greenhouse gas reduction standards for vehicles sold in the state. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2010

In addition to President Obama's proclamation of 1,000,000 plug-in cars by 2015, several newcomer companies, including Tesla, Fisker, A123, and Johnson Controls-Saft, received multimillion dollar grants and/or loans to accelerate production. In 2009, the plug-in vehicle market gained unprecedented federal support.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 9, 2010

While President Obama has been fumbling a legitimate response to the Gulf Oil Spill, a group of U.S. The "Electric Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010" is intended to leverage $10 billion in federal grants to make it easier to early.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Earlier post.). Advanced Technologies R&D.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama. Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. patent , shortly before his 100th birthday.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

The research is part of the Materials Genome Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in 2011. This research was supported by the DOD-ONR (Grants No. N00014-09-1-0921) and the NSF (Grant No. —Hart et al. We’re looking at the properties of ‘expensium’ and trying to develop ‘cheapium’. —Stefano Curtarolo.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

“As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. More details below: Tags: Obama Energy chrysler. As the race to produce mass market EVs heats up, Chrysler has pulled out of the contest. by Kevin Krolicki, for Reuters.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

President Obama announced the awards for the $2.4B Modec is being granted full N2 EC Type Approval, allowing it to sell its electric vehicles in all EU member states without the need for individual national approval. in funding at Navistar in front of a Navistar Modec prototype. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Novozymes said it has allocated unprecedented resources to the project, and the company has also received development grants totaling US$29.3 Novozymes welcomed the recent support from the Obama Administration in the form of the RFS2 rules from the EPA ( earlier post ), saying it will reignite investments in new biorefineries across the US.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) competitive grant program.

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MAY 14, 2010

The eStar all-electric truck transitioned from concept to reality in August 2009, when President Barack Obama visited Navistar’s manufacturing plant in Indiana to announce a $39.2 million federal stimulus grant to build electric trucks. and Modec Limited of the UK. Earlier post.). e-Star Quick Specs. 80 kWh Li-ion pack.

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