Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2010

The Dayton, Ohio RTA is adding 10 hybrid buses to its fleet, which also includes electric trolley buses. Dayton RTA used two-thirds of the stimulus money it received in spring, 2009, to buy buses, offsetting the cost of fleet replacement and reducing the agency’s budget deficit.

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2009

The new administration’s stimulus package allots $2B for advanced batteries, $300M for federal and states fleets to buy new clean fuel vehicles and $7,500 tax rebate for PHEV, with yet more money in the Auto-Industry Re-tooling fund. No on has a lock on this future; everything is up for grabs.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December, when Nissan introduces the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car that will have a range of 100 miles on a fully charged battery and be priced for middle-class families. “We In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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