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APRIL 25, 2014

and will donate a Chevrolet Camaro to each one of the 16 universities that were recently selected for the exclusive competition. EcoCAR 3 challenges university students across North America to design, build and optimize eco-friendly powertrains over the course of the next four years. California State University, Los Angeles.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

The goal of NAFTC is to bring critically needed alternative fuel vehicle first responder safety training to state fire academies across the country and to provide the knowledge to safely and confidently respond to accidents involving the vehicles, said Al Ebron, NAFTC executive director. Earlier post.).

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Standards West Virginia Hybrid Alternative Fuels 252

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Virginia Clean Cities announced an additional nine fleets and more than 160 vehicles are joining the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program for vehicle conversions to propane autogas and the installation of on-site fueling stations. Virginia Premier Health of Richmond, Va.; the City of Sandy Springs, Ga.; Lee County, Ala.;

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Craig Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University, will lead the laboratory’s project. Old Dominion University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Virginia Tech, and EP Analytics are named as partner institutions in the effort. The US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is launching a four-year, $3.2-million

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Greenville County, South Carolina and Light’N’Up, deployed 15 propane Autogas vehicles last month as part of a large-scale, Recovery Act-funded alternative fuel vehicle project in the Southeast United States. —Alan Fairfield, Greenville County fleet director.

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MAY 31, 2012

Chairman and CEO Nicholas DeBenedict made the announcement before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Alternative Fuel Vehicles forum held at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Aqua America, Inc., Pennsylvania has always been an energy-rich state with natural gas being its latest form. —Nicholas DeBenedictis.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) will hold its upcoming Electric Drive Vehicle First Responder Safety Training at the Tesla Motors headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Scheduled for 6-7 Dec., Scheduled for 6-7 Dec., —NAFTC Executive Director Al Ebron. Online courses will be available in 2012.

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Tesla Motors West Virginia Motor Motors 278

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AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh. Description. Federal funding.

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JUNE 19, 2014

Hydraulic pumps/motors and an accumulator (power storage unit) are added to gasoline, diesel, propane or CNG engines to store braking energy and use the captured energy to accelerate the vehicle, significantly saving fuel and brakes and cutting emissions. Fleets Hybrids Hydraulic Hybrid'

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

It’s striking, Lux said, that the US EPA, with its $8-billion budget and workforce of 15,000 staff, couldn’t catch VW, but a small team of researchers from West Virginia University could. Other outcomes projected by the Lux team include: Regulators will try to improve, but will need better equipment.

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JUNE 2, 2014

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) contracted with the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions at West Virginia University to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles (two 2.0L diesels and one 3.0L

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Green Cars News

MAY 9, 2009

That is the question posed by Car.com’s second annual Green Cities Index which shows which areas have the most interest in hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles. In among the top 15 cities are several smaller cities with large state universities such as Charlottesville, VA and Gainesville, FL. Charlottesville, Virginia.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Using an engineered strain of the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, a team from the University of Washington, Utah State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have reduced carbon dioxide to methane in one enzymatic step. Fixen et al. Click to enlarge.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. manufacturing (some of which overlaps with the EV-related aspects – more on that in a moment) appeared all but doomed earlier this summer.

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