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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University will receive funds to purchase zero-emission electric buses, which will replace diesel buses that have reached the end of their useful life. Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS). New Jersey Transit Corporation. New Mexico Department of Transportation. 793,420.

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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation. Evatran plans to have over twenty installations as part of the Apollo Trial Program.

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

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin). Electric Power Research Institute (Charlotte, North Carolina). Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat

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This research is a collaborative project between CSIRO, NSW Department of Primary Industries, University of Adelaide, the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology. The results are published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. General Motors Corporation. Charlotte, NC Aiken, SC. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation. Brownstown, MI. Production of high-volume battery packs for the GM Volt. Cells will be from LG Chem, Ltd. Saft America, Inc.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Costar Corporation by Hymotion, October 2006 (Annapolis, MD), contact kliestenfeltz@costar.com Chelan County (WA) Advanced Vehicle Initiative s "Whitebird," by Manzanita Micro, October, 2006. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. See also Hymotions comments on the subject. Aftermarket Conversion Sources Felix Kramers Prius converted by EnergyCS — click to see more photos of PHEV conversions. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready. Frank has formed Efficient Drivetrains, Inc.

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