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Ford Gets $10M Federal Grant for Plug-In Hybrids (PHEV)

Ford Motor Co. will receive a $10 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles and take more steps toward commercialization.
The funding being announced Tuesday will help the automaker continue to work on its demonstration fleet of 20 plug-in hybrid vehicles with a group of utilities. Under the grant, the Energy [...]

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Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles Get Real-World Testing

As part of the recent “Beyond Oil” conference  in Redmond WA, the newest member of the city of Seattle transportation fleet was introduced. It is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), the first of dozens headed to the state of Washington as part of a demonstration project coordinated by Idaho National Laboratory.
The PHEV’s appearance kicked [...]

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Manufacturers Scrambling To Create Safe and Efficient Hybrid Battery

Whoever killed the electric car is now trying to resuscitate it. As rising oil prices push drivers away from SUVs and toward hybrids, it’s suddenly become apparent to consumer and manufacturers alike that the ultimate green car is one with that can run on batteries. But battery technology is stubbornly limited. Car manufacturers are scrambling [...]

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Honda Aims to Avoid Plug-In Hybrids (PHEV)

While the folks at GM celebrate the advent of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, those at Honda aren’t rushing to create a plug-in hybrid of their own.
Masaaki Kato, president of Honda’s Research & Development unit, tells Bloomberg that today’s batteries aren’t quite ready for a plug-in application.
“For battery-powered vehicles to become more widespread,” Kato said, “we [...]

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Toyota Expands Hybrid Battery Plant

Toyota Motor Corp., preparing to build Prius hybrids in the U.S. by 2010, will eventually make advanced batteries within North America to power the gasoline- electric cars, vice-chairman Kazuo Okamoto said.
“We will start producing batteries in North America,” Okamoto told reporters Friday. The date of such production, now done only in Japan, depends on oil [...]

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