April 05 2013
In the summer of 2008, the price of regular gasoline exceeded $4 per gallon in Oregon for the first time in history. I work in ODOT’s Office of Innovative Partnerships where we have a unique statutory authority to enter into public/private partnerships for transportation projects. The phone rang and it was a fleet operator in the Portland area who said the fuel prices were going to put him out of business. He was thinking about converting to electric drive vehicles, ...
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