House and Senate to Unveil Bipartisan Electrification Bills

House Cosponsors to Unveil Bipartisan Electrification Bill

On Thursday, May 27, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) will introduce the Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010, legislation that aims to advance the widescale deployment of electric vehicles and to develop the infrastructure needed to support them, largely through the selection and creation of specific geographic areas in which government incentives and local initiative will combine to provide all of the elements of an electrified transportation system.

  

                 House cosponsors unveil "Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment
  EVENT:         Act of 2010"

  DATE:         Thursday, May 27, 2010

  TIME:         9:30 AM

  LOCATION:     2456 Rayburn House Office Building

                 Cosponsors Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Judy Biggert
                 (R-IL) and members of the Electrification Coalition and the
  PARTICIPANTS:  Energy Security Leadership Council, including:
                -- Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman & CEO, Rockwood Holdings, Inc.
                -- Reuben Munger, Chairman, Bright Automotive, Inc.
                -- David P. Vieau, President & CEO, A123 Systems, Inc.
                 -- Gen. Charles F. Wald, USAF (Ret.), former Deputy Commander,
                 United States  European Command

  Senate Cosponsors to Unveil Bipartisan Electrification Bill

On Thursday, May 27, Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) will introduce the Electric Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010, legislation that aims to advance the widescale deployment of electric vehicles and to develop the infrastructure needed to support them, largely through the selection and creation of specific geographic areas in which government incentives and local initiative will combine to provide all of the elements of an electrified transportation system.

  

                 Senate cosponsors unveil "Electric Vehicle Deployment Act of
  EVENT:         2010"

  DATE:         Thursday, May 27, 2010

  TIME:         2:15 PM

  LOCATION:     Capitol Visitor Center, Room SVC 215

                 Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and
  PARTICIPANTS:  Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

  CONTACT: Seth Becker of Electrification Coalition, +1-202-461-2368

  /PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 26/