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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. Connect Transit will receive funding to replace diesel buses used in fixed route service with zero-emission, 40-foot, battery electric buses.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school. Breakthrough at MIT After graduating from Carnegie Tech in 1959, Ivan Sutherland headed to Caltech for graduate studies in electrical engineering.

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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. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Colorado State University. $5. Chrysler LLC. $70. DOE Award ($mil.). Project locations.

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