Transportation
Is 1 million plug-ins by 2015 the key to ‘winning the future’?
Plug-ins powered with American batteries could help the US win the future President Obama sticks to his electric plan To help reduce foreign oil dependence and to create new jobs the Obama Administration is keeping its focus on being the first country to produce 1 million electric cars – a number the administration hopes to [...]
Continue reading...Today’s Headlines – 1/27/11
27 January 2011 – 11:24 am PST
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO issued a rare joint statement in support of the President’s infrastructure push. (WP) The House transportation committee got started on a bipartisan note, and will tackle aviation before surface transportation. (Streetsblog Capitol Hill) Senate EPW chair Barbara Boxer said Congress needs take care of a new transportation bill [...]
Continue reading...State of the Union: AASHTO Supports President Obama’s Vision for Transportation Investment
27 January 2011 – 8:50 am PST
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – AASHTO commends President Obama’s State of the Union address for supporting jobs and the economy through greater investment in transportation infrastructure. “We continue to be encouraged that President Obama supports investing in America’s transportation infrastructure – recognizing the role it plays in creating jobs, growing the national economy and balancing the federal [...]
Continue reading...President Obama calls for fixing 20th century infrastructure while building for the 21st
26 January 2011 – 9:16 am PST
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The theme of President Obama’s State of the Union address last night was winning the future, and investing in America’s infrastructure was an integral part of it. “The third step in winning the future is rebuilding America,” the President said, after discussing his vision for innovation and education. Other nations have outpaced our investment in [...]
Continue reading...America’s broadest transportation coalition applauds President Obama’s call to fix 20th century infrastructure while building for the 21st
26 January 2011 – 8:54 am PST
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WASHINGTON, DC — In response to Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Transportation for America Director James Corless issued the following statement: “We were thrilled to hear the President come right out and say that investment in transportation and other infrastructure is central to rebuilding and growing our economy. An upfront investment in the most [...]
Continue reading...VW’s 261 mpg XL1 plug-in hybrid: What about today?
25 January 2011 – 11:49 am PST
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When will such a hybrid be cost-effective? Coolest concept you’ll never drive? What’s not to like about the VW XL1 plug-in hybrid debuting in Qatar? 21 miles of EV range. Carbon fiber. A plug-in hybrid architecture that achieves 261 mpg. This is the kind of car that can save the world, right? Well, except that [...]
Continue reading...Foreign oil independence by 2030: Can we make it happen?
25 January 2011 – 9:42 am PST
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The most hyped car ever? Too much marketing, too much spin, too little leadership? Yesterday I read that some believe that GM’s new CEO Dan Akerson is too focused on marketing, rather than product – a tendency that has often plagued GM in the past. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it [...]
Continue reading...Could you plug-in a hydraulic hybrid?
24 January 2011 – 1:49 pm PST
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Can lithium drive US auto profits? Isn’t no battery or less battery the best? Alright, I’m a bit smitten with this idea of hydraulic hybrid cars right now. No need for foreign lithium. No need to worry about competing with the much more mature Asian battery manufacturing industry. No need to worry about state-owned Chinese [...]
Continue reading...Tell President Obama to call for smarter transportation policy tomorrow night
24 January 2011 – 12:45 pm PST
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Since September 2009, Congress has passed one extension after another to the expired transportation law continuously punting difficult decisions about reforming the way we fund and build our transportation system. We’ve heard that President Obama is ready to change that and could be including a big push for a new transportation bill in tomorrow’s State [...]
Continue reading...So what do you want from transportation?
21 January 2011 – 1:49 pm PST
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We noticed that the folks at AASHTO are asking all their visitors to weigh in and “tell Congress” what they want to see in a transportation bill, and more broadly, what they think we need to be building and doing with our transportation dollars. During the six-week campaign, people can use AASHTO’s Facebook page to [...]
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27 January 2011 – 11:42 am PST
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