First Recovery Act Electric Vehicle Delivered Today

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For months now, a team at an Indiana plant has been hard at work preparing to manufacture electric delivery trucks that are entirely powered by plug-in power. They’ve been installing equipment, retrofitting an old manufacturing facility, assembling parts, testing the new technology – and today they became the very first Recovery Act recipient to deliver an electric vehicle with the advanced battery and electric drive grants the President announced last year as they unveiled their new truck today and handed the keys off to the customer.




Very cool story:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/13/first-recovery-act-electric-vehicle-delivered-today

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1. Wow! Cool! Joe Biden gave them a call during their launch!

:P

He said, "Hey, congratulations, you guys! This is a Big Fuckin' Deal!"

Vice President Joe Biden calls the Navistar Electric Truck Team to congratulate them on shipping their first vehicle as a result of Recovery Act funding, from his home office in Wilmington, Delaware.

[boppers]

2. 400 trucks going to FedEx...

It's real.

[Cha]

3. Zowie! Awesomely

Awesome!~