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USABC awards $5.48M Li-ion PHEV battery technology development contract to Johnson Controls

Green Car Congress

USABC awarded the contract to continue Johnson Controls’ development of lithium-ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) applications to meet USABC goals for low-cost, long-life, high-power and high energy vehicle systems. JCS PHEV System Development-USABC (DOE OVT 2011 Merit Review).

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

LiveWire Labs in Silicon Valley will communicate with Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee to “pioneer the future of motorcycling.” Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. Fine with me. It debuted in the U.S. as a 1999 model.

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