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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). The Net-Zero Neighborhood. Net-Zero Neighborhoods. An Energy Plan Only A Scientist Could Love or Net-Zero Neighborhoods or ?

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Secretary of the Navy Sets Target for 50% of Total Energy Consumption from Alternative Sources by 2020; Role for Biofuels and EVs

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It will do that, Secretary Mabus said, by replacing the current fleet, as they go out of service, with a new composite fleet of flex fuel vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and neighborhood electric vehicles. That means for every 7 planes we put these new engines on, we’ll be able to buy an additional F/A-18 E/F with the savings.

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SoCal Edison white paper shares data about PEV usage and charging

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SCE began its PEV readiness efforts in 2009, and quantified the anticipated impact of PEVs on the electric grid before consumers began buying and leasing them. But I’m not sure fast charging really compensates for that—the cost to fuel the vehicle will be more expensive or comparable to gasoline. —Ed Kjaer.

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Minnesota Plug-in Law

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The new law instructs the state to buy plug-in hybrids on a preferred basis when they become available and also it encourages Minnesota State University at Mankato to develop a flex-fueled hybrid. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Is it the Right Time to Buy an Electric Car?

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’ But when the question of buying an electric vehicle pops up, some of us are still can’t make a decision, and it’s not our fault. The transition from gasoline-powered vehicles to electric vehicles is not an easy one. If you choose to buy a long-range electric car despite the price differences it has now, Congratulations !!

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Study: Four of five new-car buyers can charge EVs at home

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To understand how and where those new EVs will be charged, we need to look at the people who will buy them—and not the much larger pool of US drivers overall. To understand how and where those new EVs will be charged, we need to look at the people who will buy them—and not the much larger pool of US drivers overall.

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