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The energy bill introduced Thursday in the Senate has a pleasant surprise: $3.9 billion in funding for electric vehicles and infrastructure.


Earlier in the week, Senate staffers briefing the media discussed only $400 million of EV funding. But the full text introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., includes $2 billion for the so-called early deployment communities program and $1.5 billion for EV and battery research and development.


The EV provisions were pulled into the energy bill from the separate, bipartisan Electric Vehicle Deployment Act introduced earlier in the year.


Reid's bill, the "Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act of 2010," still must win approval of the full Congress.


Some legislation watchers think it has scant chance because it needs unanimous Democratic support just to get out of the Senate and the votes of at least two oil-state Dems opposed to its provision lifting the $75 million oil spill liability cap on oil companies are in doubt.
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Tags: Batteries, Legislation, Plug-ins and Electric, Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act of 2010, EV, EV Subsidies

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