20
Mar
Automobile Electric Vehicles – Obama Announces $2.4-Billion Grant for Electric Vehicle Programs
On the second day of his tour of Southern California, President Obama highlighted his environmental jobs agenda with a visit to an electric-vehicle testing facility in Pomona, where he announced a $2.4-billion competitive grant program to make the electric vehicles more widely available.
The president renewed his commitment to doubling the country’s supply of renewable energy over the next few years—including spending $11 billion upgrading the nation’s power grid to ease the delivery of renewable energy across the country, and $15 million to help develop green technologies such as solar and wind power, and new coal technologies… DetailsÂ