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PHEV Day 161 - Friday, 21 March 2009. From Vicksburg, MS to the 46th State Capitol - Little Rock, Arkansas

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Traffic was light, but mainly slight some 200 miles! The "Spirit" after a night of recharging at Motel 6 had these readings: 78.7MPG for 15 miles; 61.7 Tomorrow would be the run to Memphis on another Blue Highway -- Hwy 70, which lays within miles and parallels the busy, truck-laden and hi-speed Interstate 40 some 140 miles to Memphis.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

Green Car Congress

Electric Power Research Institute (Drexel University, University of Memphis, Evapco, WorleyParsons, and Maulbetsch Consulting). This low-cost structure, which would sit atop water channels, can reflect solar light while simultaneously dissipating heat to the atmosphere and cooling water below ambient temperatures, even in broad daylight.

Fusion 150