Tennessee's Governor Wants Electric Car Plug-in Station In Chattanooga

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Earth Day could provide a glimpse into the future of transportation in Tennessee.

Governor Phil Bredesen marked Earth Day 2009 by highlighting the combined potential of solar and electric vehicle technologies in Tennessee. He test drove an all-electric vehicle that Nissan shipped from Japan.

He then invited Nissan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and TVA to join the state in exploring opportunities to develop solar-powered charging stations on a limited basis in Chattanooga, Nashville, and Knoxville.

Nissan is expected to introduce electric vehicles for U.S. commercial and government fleets in late 2010 and for mass market globally by 2012. The Japanese automaker has a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee... near Murfreesboro.

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With a Bush white house and

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 27, 2009 - 7:48pm.

With a Bush white house and a republican congress, our government paid for helping rebuilding Iraq infrastructure. It also allowed for higher prices at the fuel pump. And managed to spend all the surplus the Clinton adminstration had been able to save. As well as allowing the credit card interest rates to increase enormously. And killing the General Motor's fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in which were so efficient that they were on the brink of altering the future of driving in the U.S. —perhaps even in the entire world. Everyone who drove the cars gave them outstanding reviews.

Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, with a limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.

It was released on DVD to the home video market on November 14, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The film details the California Air Resources Board's reversal of the mandate after suits from automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the George W. Bush administration. It points out that Bush's chief influences, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Andrew Card, are all former executives and board members of oil and auto companies. It should be noted that this car was introduced during the Clinton Administration in 1996 they were eliminated from the GM Line in 1999. One of the film's most entertaining scenes shows George W. Bush helping to fill up a hydrogen-powered vehicle at a model hydrogen-fueling station.

Makes one wonder why the Bush white house would have killed these none oil burners. Was they looking out for the majority of the american people?

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