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This is an excellent opportunity for our state to test the viability of a new type of electric vehicle. Thank you for featuring it, Matt.

I'm very uncomfortable with part of what Sam Adams said. The credit for making this program a reality correctly goes to Art James, Project Director of ODOT's Oregon Innovative Partnerships Program, his project team members, and Governor Kulongoski.

For more information, here's their direct link:
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/OIPP/inn_ev…
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Sounds very cool. To clarify - those are going into the state fleet of cars? Not available for sale to the public in any way?
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Plug in electric vehicles are a great idea. If I could get my hands on one with a 50 to 100 mile range I would be very interested.

Problem is we need to address how the power will be generated to charge all those cars. I don't think burning more coal at Boardman is going to cut it.
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NUCLEAR!
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Well, Dave, at this point we dump a lot of energy that is generated by wind at night. There is no place to store it and not enough people are using power in the middle of the night. In the next ten years (maybe sooner) we will begin to see a smart grid system that will allow us to use that energy to charge cars at night. At this point, even without a smart grid if there was more draw at night (from cars or other things) we would use power that is not being used. I highly recommend you read the report "Bright Futures" which can be found here: http://www.lightintheriver.org/reports/bri…

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