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DOE releases Hydrogen Program Plan

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This version of the Plan updates and expands upon previous versions including the 2006 Hydrogen Posture Plan and the 2011 DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Plan. More-detailed, technology- and application-specific targets and milestones are included in each DOE office’s multi-year planning documents.

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California ARB posts discussion document for developing Advanced Clean Transit (ACT) regulation

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted a discussion document. In 2006, ARB amended the Transit Fleet Rule to include an advanced demonstration from the diesel path transit agencies, and to postpone temporarily the purchase requirement.

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US charges Audi manager with conspiracy to cheat US emissions tests; sacrificing NOx control for a sound system

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According to the complaint, from in or about 2006 until in or about November 2015, Pamio led a team of engineers responsible for designing emissions control systems to meet emissions standards, including for nitrogen oxides (NO x ), for diesel vehicles in the US. Beginning in or about 2006, Audi was designing the new 3.0

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EPA to reconsider particulate matter NAAQS

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g/m 3 (in place since 2006). As with all reviews, the public will have opportunities to comment on these documents during the CASAC review process, as well as to provide input during the rulemaking through the public comment process and public hearings on any proposed decision. The current 24-hour standard is 35 ?g/m

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Ports of LA, Long Beach approve 2017 Clean Air Action Plan; targeted GHG reductions; zero-emissions on-road drayage by 2035

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The document provides high-level guidance for accelerating progress toward a zero-emission future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. The document calls for the ports to reduce GHGs 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% 1990 levels by 2050.

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Scrapyard Find: 2010 Citroën C4 Picasso VTR+

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One model that proved to be a solid showroom hit was the Citroën C4 Picasso , and I documented one of these machines during my recent trip to the scrapyards of Northern England. This generation of C4 Picasso was built from 2006 through 2013, with all examples built at the assembly plant in Vigo, Spain.

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Tesla’s Master Plan turns 15 years old: What Elon Musk’s company has achieved so far

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Fifteen years ago today, on August 2nd, 2006, Co-Founder and CEO of what was then called “Tesla Motors” Elon Musk put out his top-secret Master Plan. Essentially, the cleverly titled document outlined what Musk envisioned for Tesla a few years before it would ever pump an electric vehicle off its production lines.

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