The Brookings Institution and Google have started a two-day conference on plug-in hybrids elective vehicles you can listen to here. Needless to say for Climate Progress readers, PHEVs are a core climate solution and probably the best way of significantly reducing US oil consumption (see “Plug-in hybrids and electric cars — a core climate solution“).
Lots of great speakers — here is the agenda.
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Hydrogen cars in the future?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606135330.htm
entitled “Glass Microspheres To Carry Hydrogen, Deliver Drugs, Filter Gases And Detect Nuclear Development”
Efficiency where it counts:
“How Truckers Could Save 2.4 Billion Gallons of Fuel Per Year”
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080612-fuel-savings.html