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UK names first 7 plug-in vans eligible for grants

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UK Transport Secretary Justine Greening and Business Minister Mark Prisk announced the first vans eligible for the Government’s new Plug-in Car Van Grant. The first seven vans to be made eligible for the grants are: Azure Dynamics – Transit Connect Electric. Faam – JOLLY 2000. Earlier post.) Faam – ECOMILE.

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Hydro-Québec grants an exploitation license and partners with Nouveau Monde Graphite to develop materials for Li-ion batteries

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In connection with these agreements, NMG has closed a non-brokered private placement of 6,666,667 units in the capital of the Corporation, at a price of $0.30 NMG’s Demonstration plant as a production capacity of 2000 tonnes of concentrated flake graphite for a two-year period. NMG’s financing.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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As it turns out, Estrin—whose parents are IEEE Fellows Gerald and Thelma Estrin—has a connection to von Neumann, a mathematician who made contributions to physics, computing, and game theory. She left USC in 2000 to join UCLA and founded the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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Start-up AEV developing battery-electric shuttle buses for China, India and US markets

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with LG Chem in 2000—is developing a 6.3m The Government of India will do a matching grant with us on the shuttle. AEV is upgrading to include 3G cellular network connectivity in China. Click to enlarge. electric shuttle bus, with its primary markets intended to be China, India and the US. —Dan Rivers.

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Going with the talent flow

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Barnhart was responsible a range of clean energy legislation, including including statutes granting apartment renters and condominium owners the right to install electric charging stations in parking areas so long as they paid for the equipment and installation. EWEB gave us a $5000 grant to advertise this project,” LePage explained.

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