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Production of 100th GILLIG battery-electric bus

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GILLIG is currently booking new bus orders into 2023. In addition, the electric bus completed testing with the Federal Transit Administration’s Bus Test Program in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in July, where it scored exceptionally well in all measurement categories, especially for durability and performance.

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Uber says expanding shuttles in US, other services – ET Auto

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Partnerships have been signed with Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, as well as venues in Chicago, the North Carolina financial hub of Charlotte and Pennsylvania’s Pittsburgh, said Uber Shuttle chief Anthony Le Roux. A pilot project will also be launched at US airports to shuttle passengers to and from cities’ downtown areas.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

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It appears that this truck began its career in Bristol, Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware River from New Jersey. This oil-change sticker shows that it was still in Pennsylvania in 1993. There's air conditioning, which the 1986 Edmund's Foreign Car Prices book claims was standard equipment in the 1986 BRAT GL (I'm skeptical).

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Coskata files registration statement for proposed IPO

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Citigroup, Barclays Capital and Piper Jaffray will act as the joint book-running managers for the offering. Based on production runs at its demonstration facility in Pennsylvania, Coskata projects producing 100 gallons of ethanol per dry ton of softwood in its commercial-scale facility using its hybrid biothermal process.

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Alcoa to roll out lightest heavy-duty truck wheel in Europe, offering increased fuel efficiency, payload

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The wheel has been approved by all major US truck and trailer manufacturers, and is in most manufacturer data books making it available for order by fleets. The MagnaForce alloy was invented by Alcoa’s experts at the Alcoa Technical Center—the world’s largest light metals research center—located outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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Then I got a job [in 1967] as a technician at [Pennsylvania TV maker] Philco-Ford and noticed that the engineers were making about twice as much money. When I got there I found they only had an associate degree in engineering technology. But I didn't know what I was doing, so I thought: Let's finish up that associate degree.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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He left Pittsburgh eight years later to teach at Pennsylvania State University in State College, where in 2001 he became director of its multivariate analysis center. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career.

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