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Consortium Seeks Stimulus Funding for DME-Electric Hybrid Buses

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A consortium is seeking US stimulus funding available through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) program to convert 20 hybrid diesel-electric buses to hybrid dimethyl-ether (DME)-electric propulsion. a developer of fuel injection equipment for DME-fueled vehicles.

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Li-ion maker Boston-Power adds $30M in funding; China expansion

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Long-standing Boston-Power investors Oak Investment Partners and Foundation Asset Management (FAM) also participated. '.

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KBR Awarded Contract by Chemetall Foote Corp. for Lithium Hydroxide Operation Expansion

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million grant from the US Department of Energy to expand and upgrade the production of lithium materials for advanced transportation batteries. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2011. (a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc.) The project is funded in part by a $28.4-million

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ECOtality to Provide Blink EV Charging Stations at Select US Best Buy Stores

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Charging stations at these stores, within pilot markets of The EV Project, will be installed by March 2011. The project is funded by the US Department of Energy through a federal stimulus grant of $114.8 The grants are matched by private investment, bringing the total value of the project to approximately $230 million.

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Grant Thornton LLP Warns of Potential Collapse of Automotive Supply Chain

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But the most immediate and pervasive risk to the economy is a wholesale collapse of the automotive supply base, Grant Thornton LLP partner Laura Marcero told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit. Grant Thornton LLP is the US member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations.

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Odyne Systems delivers 7 plug-in hybrid work trucks through the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program

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The following have received advanced Odyne hybrid systems under the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program: Milwaukee County took delivery of four work trucks in December 2011 and January 2012 that will be used throughout Milwaukee County to maintain traffic signals and street lighting. The Richland Center unit of Wisconsin Public Power, Inc.

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Pike forecasts 26.4% CAGR for electric-drive buses to 2018; hybrid, battery-electric and fuel cell

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This latter development is due as much to the fact that developed bus markets may experience a general slowdown, due to austerity measures and the end of stimulus funding, as to any changes in demand for electric drive. Europe is behind on hybrid bus deployments, although stimulus. grants to offset the price premium.

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