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- From: tylerh@cco.caltech.edu (Tyler R. Holcomb)
- Subject: Electric cars get a jump start
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.181506.25658@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:15:06 GMT
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- BURBANK, Calif. (UPI) -- A consortium of public and private
- organizations has been awarded $6 million in state and federal grants to
- develop a California-based electric vehicle industry and infrastructure
- by 1994.
- Calstart officials announced Tuesday that the group will receive a $4
- million federal grant and a $2 million state grant to develop advanced
- electric vehicle parts and build a statewide infrastructure of charging
- stations, service and battery centers within two years.
- The grants also will help the group to develop an advanced electric
- bus and mass transit program.
- Officials believe the program will help transform the state's
- struggling defense and aerospace industry into an advanced
- transportation center.
- ``California has always been a technological leader,'' Rep. Howard
- Berman said. ``This grant will help us retain that leadership as well as
- gain a foothold in the rapidly growing vehicle industry.''
- Calstart was formed last December to help the state compete in the
- world market through advanced transportation. Officials believe the
- program will generate more than 55,000 new jobs by the year 2000.
- The electric vehicle industry also will play a critical role in
- meeting air quality standards, said Charles Imbrecht, chairman of the
- California Energy Commission.
- The consortium consists of more than 40 public and private agencies
- and businesses, including Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas &
- Electric, Hughes Aircraft Co., Lockheed Corp., the South Coast Air
- Quality Management District, the Los Angeles Department of Water and
- Power and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
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