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Fri 07 Jul 2010100m cars will be electric by 2030, says US energy secretary
UP TO 100 million cars on American roads will be electrically-powered or hybrid-electric vehicles by 2030, according to the US under secretary for energy, Dr Kristina Johnson, herself a “third-generation engineer”.
Speaking in Dublin yesterday at the Institute for International and European Affairs, she said this would be one of the measurable outcomes of President Barack Obama’s drive to create a “new clean energy economy”.
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