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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

It would also: Provide funds to Minnesota State University – Mankato to convert two conventional hybrids to plug-ins, Establish a task force to assess barriers to plug-in hybrids and to consider possible financial incentives to encourage Ford Motor Company to produce flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles at its St. economy."

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Development of Rechargeable Energy Dense Long Cycle-life Zinc/Copper Oxide Batteries, $250,000. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Beam Suntory, Inc.