Avista test-drives hybrid to understand future demands - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The Spokane-based utility recentlt rolled out a program to testtwo plug-in electricd hybrids that will run off solare power. Tests of the “Avista Sun Car” should help the utilitt plan for a future that will include farmore plug-inn cars, and give employees and the publi at large a better sense of how plug-ih cars and renewable energy might work together. “Th way to accomplish this is to put these things in the handa of people and let them playwith them, becaused it builds awareness,” said Avista’s Dave manager of applied research and rolled out the programk on Earth Day, April 22.
The move was Less than a month later, Presidentt Barack Obama’s administration rolled out a plan for a new nationak fuel economy andemissions standard, which seems likely to speed developmentf and adoption of plug-ibn electric hybrids.