This includes promoting electric and hybrid cars as an alternative to gas-guzzling cars idling on clogged city roads.
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A123 makes batteries for electric and hybrid cars, and the electric grid.
The company's decision followed Panasonic's move to streamline its unprofitable operations and focus more on competitive businesses such as selling home appliances, as well as rechargeable batteries for electric and hybrid cars.
In an age where green travel and eco-focused marketing continue to grow, car rental companies are bolstering their rental fleets with electric and hybrid cars, giving travellers the opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint, save money at the pump and take one of these new-technology vehicles for a spin before perhaps buying one of their own.
Average new car mileage in the U.S. has increased up to 24.5 miles per gallon in the last year, a large part due to the introduction of electric and hybrid electric cars.
The move puts the Michigan company among a growing number of venture-backed American companies in the alternative vehicle space to land in China, where the government provides incentives for the development and purchases of all-electric and electric hybrid cars.
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The report also highlighted the sales of all-electric and gasoline-electric hybrid cars.
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Under the Gore plan, billions of federal dollars would be aimed at encouraging production and purchase of hybrid gas and electric cars.
How this happens remains to be seen, but there are four distinct options on the table: hybrid cars, plug-in hybrid cars, battery electric cars, and fuel cell cars.
The big push for AONE is the potential for using its technology in hybrid electric and electric cars as the cars start to be mass produced.
In May, auto industry officials and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Energy Department discussed potential dangers faced by first responders from electrical charges produced by hybrid and electric cars.
The new standard is part of a broader package of regulations to cut vehicle tailpipe emissions and greenhouse cases and could mean 1.4 million electric, fuel cell and plug-in hybrid cars on California freeways by 2025.
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That effort includes pushing "greener" hybrid and electric cars that stress fuel efficiency and cleaner technology.
Hybrid and electric cars have become increasingly popular in recent years due to high gasoline prices.
Jobs for factory workers to build high-tech vehicle batteries, electric cars, and hybrid trucks.
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He claims that Fiat is basing the development of its most innovative future projects, such as hybrid and electric cars, in America.
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In part this is to meet expected pedestrian-safety legislation, because hybrid and electric cars can be hard to hear at low speeds.
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Just take one example: Consider the investment that we've made in the kind of batteries used in hybrid and electric cars.
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Yet not everyone is bullish on hybrid and electric cars, with Toyota, for example, pulling the plug on its iQ electric model late last year.
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Driven by demand for hybrid and electric cars, lithium demand is expected to swell to 250, 000 tons annually up from current levels of 100, 000 tons.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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We can invest in American businesses that power our country with all kinds of innovative technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, geothermal systems, hybrid and electric cars, and next-generation batteries.
The company has created hundreds of American automotive jobs and its first model, the Roadster sports car, lit a fire under Detroit to begin producing electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars but with less success.
Perhaps right now hybrid cars and electric cars only the playthings of the wealthy.
When I came into office, we were producing about 2 percent of the advanced batteries that are used in hybrid cars and electric cars -- 2 percent of the market.
While hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric cars largely remain niche vehicles, representing less than three percent of all vehicles sold nationally, 15 U.S. cities combine to account for nearly 30 percent of all hybrids and 41 percent of all electric vehicles on the road according to R.
Porsche is also offering petrol-electric hybrid versions of some of its sports cars and the company is expected to come up with a hybrid version of its latest 911 in the near future.
In other words, the latest hybrid vehicles and all-electric cars are already here.
So it is trying to create another niche, in pollution-saving electric or hybrid cars, through government support and tax incentives.
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