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Pennsylvania Awards Axion Power $800,000 to Demonstrate PbC Batteries in Hybrids, PHEVs and EVs

Green Car Congress

Those enhancements include deeper cycling, longer life, elimination of sulfation and shedding on the negative plate, lighter weight, and easier more rapid recharging capabilities. 812,610 to retrofit two collection tank trucks to run on straight vegetable oil and for two storage tanks. City of Philadelphia. Ettline Foods Corp.

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Plug In Auto Nation

Plug In Partners

The development of plug-in hybrids could reduce America's addiction to oil," said AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson. We salute his commitment to help us reduce this country's dependence on foreign oil and decrease greenhouse gas emission while also lowering fuel costs for consumers." 12, 2006 AutoNation, Inc.

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Traction Action

Plug In Partners

Plug-in vehicles would combine today’s new electric-flex fuel (gas and/or biofuels such as ethanol) hybrid technology with a larger battery that could be recharged by plugging it into a standard wall sockets. imports about 60 percent of its oil—most of which is used in the transportation sector.