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Daimler, Blue Bird, IC Bus introduce electric school buses at NAPT

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Three major school bus manufacturers—Daimler subsidiary Thomas Built Buses, Blue Bird and Navistar subsidiary IC Bus—introduced battery-electric school buses at the recent National Association for Pupil Transportation Annual Conference and Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio (NAPT).

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VinFast’s unutilized gross sales means has U.S. automotive sellers wary however

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“Opening our own stores is great but it takes a lot of time,” CEO Le Thi Thu Thuy instructed Reuters on Tuesday. ” However with dealerships promoting for ancient costs, plenty broker house owners will manufacture the guess, stated Rhett Ricart, CEO of Ricart Car Workforce in Columbus, Ohio, which sells 10 auto manufacturers.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Such tagging will better quantify CO 2 monitoring and make it possible to accurately inventory geologically stored carbon.

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Kenworth Receives Largest Hybrid Tractor and Truck Order Yet

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GVW) will be deployed to Albuquerque, Boston, Cincinnati, Columbus (Ohio), Jacksonville (Fla.), Electricity generated through regenerative braking is stored and used for acceleration, assisting the diesel engine. San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, DC.

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$3M Award Supports Production of New Multi-tasking Fuzzy Fiber Nanomaterial; Energy Applications

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The Third Frontier award, announced 26 May in Columbus, will be matched by UDRI and Ohio collaborators Goodrich, Owens Corning and Renegade Materials to fund the creation and equipment of a full-scale production facility for the hybrid fabric.

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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of Columbus, Ohio (up to $4.9 The project aims to achieve an overall process where switchgrass is dry chopped into bulk format on the farm, hauled to a nearby satellite location, stored in a protective facility, bulk compacted into trailer, and efficiently hauled (80 km) for unloading at the handling unit of the biorefinery.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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As We May Think Bush didn’t foresee the technical means by which vast amount of information could be stored electronically but he correctly predicted in 1945 that radical miniaturization of information was on the horizon. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task.”

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