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GM Ventures invests in battery-electric bus company Proterra

Green Car Congress

was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C. with additional buses to be added, and new buses and charging stations are also headed to San Antonio and Tallahassee, Fla., —Jon Lauckner, president of GM Ventures. Proterra Inc. later this year.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. In 1992, Asad M. And he had a problem. The Cold War had ended, crashing the U.S. defense industry.