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GEM Light Electric Vehicle
(9/24/08) Chrysler builds on the success of its 38,000 GEM EVs that are currently on the road in the U.S. with new battery-electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid announcements. Any time I visit university...
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High-Speed Rail at 357 Miles per Hour
Fiona Ma was nervous about getting on a train that was about to set a world speed record. Just before Easter 2007 in the countryside outside Paris, she saw the people lining the green and flowered...
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(10/11/08) Cash-strapped consumers take advantage of Transit in Record Numbers A record number of Americans are saving thousands per year by using public transportation from one day per week to living...
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FedEx Improves Fuel Efficiency
(10/20/08) FedEx is sometimes referred to as a bellwether for the U.S. economy. The bellwether appears to be doing OK, based on the quarterly financials which FedEx released today. Revenues increased,...
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Solar Charged Electric Vehicles
Applied Solar Parking Solar is powering more vehicles. American’s have reduced their use of petroleum 5 percent this year. So far, petroleum reduction is the result of fewer miles traveled solo as...
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Transit Records in USA
A record number of Americans are saving thousands per year by using public transportation from one day per week to living car free. In 2007, a 50-year record was set of 10.3 billion transit trips per...
View ArticleCalifornia Plans High-Speed Rail
California is moving ahead with an 800-mile high-speed train system serving Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, Orange County and San Diego....
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GM Bailout
On September 24, Congress approved a $25 billion bailout for GM, Ford, and Chrysler. “It seemed like a lot when we first started pushing this,” says Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, one of...
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Hundreds of Electric Delivery Trucks Today, Millions Tomorrow
When you join one hundred others in your community to order online, the 100 of you saved 100 trips to nearby stores and to distant malls. You saved hours of driving and gallons of gasoline from...
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How Long Will It Take to Convert the U.S. Fleet to Electric Cars?
Past Experience Doesn’t Make One Optimistic, But Times Are Changing. Plug-in electric cars had record sales this past year, jumping 84 percent from the previous year’s sales and hitting almost 100,000...
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