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US official takes zero-Tesla road trip to promote EVsā€“things get so tricky they ended up ICE-ing a charger

Teslarati

United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm went on a four-day, 600+ mile journey from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, with a fleet of all-electric vehicles. The distance itself between Charlotte and Memphis is not that far. There were some combustion-powered cars in the entourage as well, but zero Teslas.

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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

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. It was leisure travel! And at 55 MPG, too!

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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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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

Green Car Congress

Compared to advanced lead-acid batteries, the PbC batteries: Support higher [10-20x] charge acceptance and faster recharge [5-10x] in partial state-of-charge (PSOC) applications; Offer an 4x increase in cycle life in 100% depth-of-discharge applications; and. This limits the ability of battery to take on recharge. PbC battery.

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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). The TES system will utilize phase change materials that operate over a range of temperatures, and the system will recharge at night by an asynchronous air-cooled enhanced heat exchanger.

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