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DOE to Award $187M to 9 Projects to Improve Vehicle Efficiency for Heavy-Duty Trucks and Passenger Vehicles

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These projects will receive more than $115 million in funding to develop and demonstrate systems-level fuel efficiency technologies by 2015, including improved aerodynamics, reducing engine idling technologies, waste heat recovery to increase engine efficiency, advanced combustion techniques, and powertrain hybridization. Ford Motor Company.

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Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

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will receive $14,997 for California Energy Commission membership in the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative for three fiscal years, through 2014-2015. Big Valley Ford, Inc., CALSTART, Inc., American Honda Motor Company, Inc., Galpin Motors, Inc., Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc.,