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08-14-2009, 09:27 AM
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Fast charging with ECOtality/eTec. (ECOtality graphic)
If it plugged in, it could get funded by an Obama Administration dead set on electrifying America. Administration officials were all over the country yesterday awarding $2.4 billion in federal Department of Energy stimulus funding to 40 battery and EV companies. It could be argued that some very worthy companies (especially California-based ones) got left out in the cold, but the funding as announced will without a doubt give a big boost to the ongoing EV revolution.
The money was to award companies that want to build batteries and EVs right here in the U.S. Without such funding, the lead will unquestionably go to Asia (where government subsidies for plug-in companies is routine). The Europeans have funded EVs far more than the U.S. also. Click here to see which lucky companies (http://www1.eere.energy.gov/recovery/pdfs/battery_awardee_list.pdf) got the millions. Barack Obama is definitely a good salesman for programs like this. Notice how he emphasizes in this video where the batteries he's funding will be made:
More... (http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/electric-car-battery-subsidy-47080603?src=rss)
Fast charging with ECOtality/eTec. (ECOtality graphic)
If it plugged in, it could get funded by an Obama Administration dead set on electrifying America. Administration officials were all over the country yesterday awarding $2.4 billion in federal Department of Energy stimulus funding to 40 battery and EV companies. It could be argued that some very worthy companies (especially California-based ones) got left out in the cold, but the funding as announced will without a doubt give a big boost to the ongoing EV revolution.
The money was to award companies that want to build batteries and EVs right here in the U.S. Without such funding, the lead will unquestionably go to Asia (where government subsidies for plug-in companies is routine). The Europeans have funded EVs far more than the U.S. also. Click here to see which lucky companies (http://www1.eere.energy.gov/recovery/pdfs/battery_awardee_list.pdf) got the millions. Barack Obama is definitely a good salesman for programs like this. Notice how he emphasizes in this video where the batteries he's funding will be made:
More... (http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/electric-car-battery-subsidy-47080603?src=rss)