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Article: In Joint Pledge, Utilities Ramp Up Efforts to Make Electricity a Crucial Transportation Fuel.
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- Global Warming Focus
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Declaring an urgent imperative to prepare for the use of electricity as a crucial transportation fuel in the future, the nation's electric utilities today collectively pledged to move forward aggressively to create the infrastructure to support the full-scale commercialization and deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs).
"Our industry acutely recognizes that now is the time to redouble our ongoing efforts to lay the groundwork for making plug-in electric transportation in this country a reality, not just a vision," said Anthony F. Earley, Jr., Chairman and CEO of DTE Energy and Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute. "We, as an industry, are eager to ...