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California ARB approves AMP Electric Vehicles E-100 medium-duty electric truck as ZEV for California

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has approved AMP’s E-100 truck as a zero emission vehicle and eligible for sale in California for the 2014 model year, which began this January. We are extremely pleased that our AMP E-100 truck and its battery-electric power train has been approved by CARB and can be sold in California.

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Aemetis to license InEnTec gasification technology to produce cellulosic ethanol; coupled with LanzaTech syngas-to-ethanol tech

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Under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard that was enacted in 2007, the cellulosic ethanol production mandate limit increases each year to up to 16 billion gallons per year by 2022. The current market price of cellulosic ethanol sold in California is estimated to be $4.50 per gallon, about $3.00

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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This duo, alongside Timothy Lipman of the University of California, Berkeley , and Alec Brooks of AC Propulsion , laid the foundation for vehicle-to-grid power. In 2007, Berg landed a contract to install rooftop solar at a local school, with the idea to set up a microgrid.

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Cummins faces $1.7B fine for diesel Ram pickup emissions cheating

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Justice Department and the State of California claiming Cummins violated the Clean Air Act by installing so-called defeat devices that allowed its diesel engines to cheat emissions tests. These were from model years 2007 to 2012, before Ram was split off into a separate brand. Engine manufacturer Cummins will pay a $1.67

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Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

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In 2007 I pledged that—by 2010—Nissan would mass-market a zero-emission vehicle. Nissan is demonstrating the breadth of the capability of its autonomous drive technology for the first time at Nissan 360, a test drive and stakeholder interaction event being held in Southern California.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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GE in framework agreement with Chinas CSR to form US JV targeting high-speed rail and other rail technology in US

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This collaboration establishes the GE Transportation - CSR joint venture as the first US manufacturer ready to supply high-speed rail (HSR) passenger trains for the two proposed true US HSR corridors in Florida and California. GE and CSR are committed to maximizing US content in high-speed passenger trains to meet Buy America standards.

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