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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. In addition to Smart Grid City, another major EV/V2G initiative is unfolding.

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Proposed Federal CEDA Designed to Help Risky Breakthrough Technologies Cross the Valley of Death; Working with $10+ Billion Fund

Green Car Congress

Proposed by Representatives: Jan Inslee (D- Washington), Steve Israel (D- New York), John Dingell (D - Michigan), Deborah Halverson (D - Illinois), Ellen Tauscher (D - California) and Anthony Weiner (D - New York). 949 : The 21 st Century Energy and Technology and Deployment Act of 2009.

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