In November 2008, for instance, Agassi appeared with then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce a billion-dollar project to build an electric car network to link San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.

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In the waning days of the Clinton administration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.

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Over the next five to six years, India plans to spend up to 138.50 billion rupees to boost the market for electric cars and plans to have about 5.0 million to 6.0 million of such vehicles--which includes two-wheelers, three-wheelers and small trucks apart from passenger cars--on the road.

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Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.

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The world is using less oil today to generate electric power than it did in 1973, despite output almost trebling to 17.5 billion watt hours of electricity, from 6.1 billion WH.

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