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- Explosion Damage To GM Battery Lab Could Reach $5 Million
21 April 2012 3:33 AM | No Comments
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Read More - Government Vehicles: Green by 2015
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Read More - President Obama Outlines $4.7 Billion Plan to Boost Clean Energy Transportation
09 March 2012 1:21 AM | No Comments
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Read More - Quieter Cars and the Safety of Blind Pedestrians, Phase 2: Development of Potential Specifications for Vehicle Countermeasure Sounds
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- Explosion Damage To GM Battery Lab Could Reach $5 Million
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Explosion Damage To GM Battery Lab Could Reach $5 Million
Posted on April 21, 2012 | No CommentsBy Antony Ingram GM Battery Lab, Warren Technical Center A week ago we brought you the news that a chemical gas explosion had injured employees at GM’s Alternative Energy... -
Government Vehicles: Green by 2015
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsBy Neil Roland of AutoWeek President Barack Obama said Wednesday that starting in 2015, all new cars and trucks bought by the federal government will be hybrids, electric vehicles and... -
President Obama Outlines $4.7 Billion Plan to Boost Clean Energy Transportation
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsPublished March 8, 2012 By Jeff Cobb Following his recent State of the Union outline [1] to boost domestically produced clean energy and related transportation, this week President Obama announced... -
Quieter Cars and the Safety of Blind Pedestrians, Phase 2: Development of Potential Specifications for Vehicle Countermeasure Sounds
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsPURPOSE This report documents research conducted to identify potential methods of developing specification for vehicle sounds (audible countermeasures), for use in electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)... -
Electric Car Post-Crash-Test Fire Prompts Federal Investigation
Posted on December 30, 2011 | 1 CommentPublished November 15, 2011 By Jeff Cobb NHTSA’s 20-mph pole side-impact crash test. A Chevrolet Volt that was side-impact tested [1] for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and... -
US military planning to go green with hybrid Humvees
Posted on December 30, 2011 | No CommentsThe United States military is looking to implement some green-technology into its arsenal as the Army is said to be developing two hybrid-powered Humvess. It would appear that the US... -
Will Military Necessity Push Hybrid Vehicle Development?
Posted on October 19, 2011 | No CommentsBy Kurt Ernst Delivering fuel on a battlefield is a difficult and dangerous proposition, not to mention the logistical challenges of getting the fuel there in the first place. A... -
Kicking hybrids out of carpool lanes backfires, slowing traffic for all
Posted on October 11, 2011 | No CommentsBy Sarah Yang, Media Relations | October 10, 2011 BERKELEY —The end of a California program granting free access to carpool lanes by solo drivers of hybrid cars has unintentionally... -
Mass-Market Electric Cars Are Mere Months Away—And That Has Charging-Dock Companies Scrambling
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsNext year the number of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in America will increase by an order of magnitude, and all of those cars will be able to draw... -
U.S. Army displays vehicle in a new shade of green
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsPublished June 9, 2011 By Jeff Cobb U.S. Army vehicles have long been green – or at least Olive Drab – but at this year’s Indianapolis 500, the military branch...



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