Relating to transportation; setting targets for increasing the proportion of flexible fuel vehicles; establishing the plug in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) task force; establishing the Ford plant enhancement commission; requiring the public utilities commission (PUC) to open a proceedings to investigate how utilities can best develop the infrastructure to connect plug in hybrid electric vehicles to the electrical grid; requiring the PUC to contract with a firm selected by the commissioner of commerce for an independent study of PHEV and utility economics; requiring a notice by the commissioner of administration in state procurement policy bid documents of the intention of the state to begin purchasing PHEVs as soon as commercially available; appropriating money to the commissioner of commerce for a grant to the automotive engineering program at Minnesota state university Mankato for the purpose of retrofitting a certain number of flexible fuel vehicles to operate as PHEVs
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