FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky school districts will benefit from $12.9 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to purchase new hybrid electric school buses.

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In the coming months and years, most major auto manufacturers and then some will put a hybrid model on the showroom floor.

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General Motors hopes the Chevrolet Volt will seize the green mantle from the Toyota Prius and prove Japan doesn't have a lock on technological innovation, but it could be Mazda the General should be worrying about.

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The Chevrolet Volt won't roll off an assembly line for another two years, but 34,520 people in 60 countries and all 50 states would buy one tomorrow if they could.

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Honda's watched from the sidelines for the better part of a decade as the Toyota Prius left its hybrids in the dust to become the must-have ride of the green set.

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Last week, the Japanese newspaper Nikkei produced a buzz by reporting that a redesigned Toyota Prius, to be released next year, will come equipped with solar panels.

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Would you buy a car that costs 10 times as much as a hybrid gasoline-electric, like the Prius? What if I told you it had half the range of the hybrid? What if I told you most cities didn't have a single hydrogen fueling station? Not interested yet? This should be the deal closer: …

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Volvo showed off its ReCharge plug-in hybrid concept, based on the Volvo C30 model, at last year's Frankfurt auto show.

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A new study by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory looked at the impact that plug-in hybrids (and indirectly, electric cars) might have on the US electricity grid in the next few decades. They found that, as they say, timing is everything: If the cars were recharged after 10 P.M.

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Eaton, maker of the hybrid electric drivetrain for large commercial vehicles, announced today that they had received an order from Coca-Cola for 120 trucks, a serious move by the beverage giant towards having a green fleet.

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For a while, Tesla's Roadster was pretty much the only really sleek electric sports car making the rounds in the Valley.

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