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Smith Electric Vehicles US Partners with Clean Fuels Ohio Program To Target $10M in Federal Funding

Green Car Congress

We’re involved in this initiative to help our customers with fleet operations in Ohio take full advantage of the benefits the ARRA federal stimulus plan has to offer for the adoption of zero-emission all-electric commercial vehicles. SEV-US plans to participate in similar funding programs in California, Missouri, New York and Texas.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

Green Car Congress

The researchers, Travis Herya and Vishnu-Baba Sundaresan, call the membrane a “ smart membrane separator ” and define it as “ a programmable ionic conductor that exhibits continuously varying ionic impedance due to an external stimulus and applied in an energy storage device (supercapacitor or RFB).”. 9, 2555-2562 doi: 10.1039/C6EE01448H.

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We've Entered a New Era of Streaming Health Care. Now What?

Cars That Think

Digitally connected self-tracking devices come in a variety of forms, such as sensor-embedded wearables, ancillary devices, smartphones, and software. Knowledge is power: By seeing in real-time how behaviors such as exercise, diet, and sleep affect health, people can have real insights into their own health preservation.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008). Five months ago.

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

Neither of them taught me that the two were connected to each other. My attentiveness to Waco and Mclennan County has led to deeper and more informative discussions concerning fleet and transit vehicles, as well as my appointment to the city of Waco’s Sustainable Resource Practices Advisory Board. Who would have thought?

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

It hasn’t led to an immediate abandonment by the automakers of this long over-subsidized initiative, but it will help put a stopper in the drain on resources accelerated under President Bush. million FedEx will get to replace grid-connected zero emission battery forklifts with fuel cell forklifts. Such as the $1.1

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

But an increasingly important energy resource is little more than a digital electric meter. “There is the technology, there is the market, but there is a bigger question than that: it’s also very much about connecting to the nation’s (electrical) grid and where the electricity comes from.&#.