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While at the Washington Auto Show, Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Nissan to see the 2013 Leaf. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    While at the Washington Auto Show, Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Nissan to see the 2013 Leaf. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    The new Nissan Leaf is being built at the company's Smyrna, Tennessee, Vehicle Assembly Plant -- helping to cut the price of its electric vehicle. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses the features of the 2014 Cadillac ELR -- the luxury car built built on the same powertrain platform as the Chevy Volt. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses some of the features of the Chevy Spark with the Chevy representative. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses Ecoboost technology with the Ford representative. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses the Focus Hybrid -- Green Car Journal's 2013 Green Car of the Year -- with the Ford representative. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses the Focus Energi with the Ford representative. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Today at the Washington Auto Show, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a new EV Everywhere initiative -- the Workplace Charging Challenge -- designed to increase the convenience of owning an electric vehicle by expanding consumer access to charging stations. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu announces the new Workplace Charging Challenge, a collaborative effort to increase the number of U.S. employers offering workplace charging tenfold in the next five years. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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    Energy Secretary Steven Chu was joined by several of the founding Workplace Charging Challenge partners and ambassadors at the Washington Auto Show. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

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Top 9 Things You Didn’t Know about Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Denver International Airport is one of many airports across the U.S. that is turning to alternative fuel vehicles. The airport maintains 324 alternative fuel vehicles, including 210 buses, sweepers, and other vehicles that use compressed natural gas, and 114 electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. As of 2010, alternative vehicles made up 32 percent of the airport's fleet. | Photo courtesy of Dean Armstrong, NREL.

Test your alternative fuel vehicles knowledge with these little-known facts.

Clean Cities Coalitions Charge Up Plug-In Electric Vehicles
Workers put the finishing touches on installing a plug-in electric vehicle charger that is part of the West Coast Electric Highway. | Photo courtesy of Columbia-Willamette Clean Cities Coalition.

Clean Cities coalitions all across the country are helping their communities get ready for plug-in electric vehicles.

National Parks Move Transportation Forward in America’s Great Outdoors
Together, the five newest National Parks Initiative projects will save the equivalent of nearly 10,000 gallons of gasoline and 71 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. | Infographic courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

Learn how the Energy Department's Clean Cities is helping National Parks across the country reduce air pollution and lower fuel costs.

What’s Your PEV Readiness Score?
PEV readiness is a community-wide effort that requires charging infrastructure, planning, regulations and support services. The new PEV Scorecard helps communities determine their PEV friendliness. | Photo courtesy of IKEA Orlando.

The new Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Scorecard helps communities measure their PEV friendliness.

Fueling the Next Generation of Vehicle Technology
Professor Jack Brouwer, Associate Director and Chief Technology Officer of the National Fuel Cell Research Center, points out the tri-generation facility that uses biogas from Orange County Sanitation District’s wastewater treatment plant to produce hydrogen, heat and power. | Photo courtesy of the Energy Department.

Learn how fuel cell technologies are vital to our nation's future energy and transportation economies.