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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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The event is being hosted by the Metropolitan Energy Center/Kansas City Regional Clean Cities in conjunction with Veolia/Kansas City Transportation Group and Alliance AutoGas. liter Ford F-150 V6, was converted to propane autogas almost 30 minutes faster than the predicted 2 hour window at the recent Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

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WHYY reports Philadelphia’s Proterra electric bus fleet sidelined due to cracked chassis and other defects

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Philadelphia’s public media organization WHYY, also the local PBS and NPR station, reports that the regional public transportation authority SEPTA has sidelined its entire fleet of 25 Proterra electric buses since February 2020. Proponents, like engineering professor Jeremy J.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

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If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e. Heat pumps have two huge advantages: They can operate in both directions and they can transport more heat than the energy required to operate them.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. Array Technologies (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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A specialized molten salt transport system will then move the high-temperature fluid to a molten-salt steam generator that produces electricity. Albuquerque, NM – up to $4.3 Wilson TurboPower is utilizing a small transportable turbine power system in a modular CSP solar power tower configuration. SkyFuel, Inc.

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