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Let My People Convert! - The A123 Challenge

Plugs and Cars

Les Goldman wants you to convert (your hybrid.) So he proposed at the California Air Resources Board ZEV workshop on Tuesday. Now, to add some further complication, everyone's got religion on plug-in hybrids. A plug-in hybrid, one could say, simply integrates electric drive into a car with internal combustion.

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Obama Administration Opens Up Oil and Gas Development and Exploration in Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Arctic

Green Car Congress

The strategy will guide the current 2007-2012 offshore oil and gas leasing program, which was written by the previous administration but found by the courts last year to be legally flawed, as well as the new 2012-2017 program that this administration will propose. Tags: Natural Gas Oil Policy.

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Zero-Carbon Drive to Sacto Anti-Carbon Rally and Back

Plugs and Cars

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. So far, most start as hybrids. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison Co. makes street-legal three-wheelers with a unique, aerodynamic design. Sacramento Municipal Util.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD’s plug-in hybrid F3DM went on sale (for fleet operators) late last year, and it’s supposed to launch its first all-electric model — the E6 — in the second half of 2009. BYD plans to sell its electric E6 and a plug-in hybrid sedan in the U.S. Tags: evdriven. Alex Koppelman Joan Walsh Me vs. G.

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Bring on the EV Trucks

Revenge of the Electric Car

According to its website, it is a California-based manufacturer of battery-electric and hybrid-electric trucks that was founded in 1989, spent years or development and has been building and selling its vehicles in Mexico for several years now. Tags: smith trucks Production News Inside Track zero truck EVI.

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