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Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review report concludes DOE is underinvested in transport; greatest efforts to go to electrification

Green Car Congress

Although biofuels have other economic or security advantages, DOE understands that any drop-in liquid fuel will not insulate consumers from the global oil price. Those technical barriers contribute to the primary market barriers for EVs: vehicle cost and range anxiety.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don’t have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly. “ We do need a national energy policy. Automakers could ramp up PEV production if consumer demand proves to be larger than expected.

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

The best thing about the Nissan is the expected price range of $25K- $34K. The benefits overwhelm the perceived problem of range. “A lot of Americans really want to stop using imported oil,&# he says. “We’re excited about being able to market a car that will never use a drop of gasoline.&#.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Project Better Place plans to deploy a massive network of battery charging spots. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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