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Nestlé Waters Converts Lift Trucks from LPG to Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Green Car Congress

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility. Nestlé Waters also signed a long-term agreement with Air Products to supply hydrogen and hydrogen fueling station technology for the Dallas facility.

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BAF Technologies Begins Converting 600 ATT Vehicles To CNG in 2009

Green Car Congress

Dallas-based BAF Technologies has begun converting 600 AT&T Ford E-Series vans to dedicated CNG technology in 2009. The converted vehicles will utilize the BAF CalComp System, a proprietary CNG fuel system certified by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (ARB). Earlier post.).

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Texas awarding up to $5.7M for alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles

Green Car Congress

A hybrid vehicle is defined as a motor vehicle with at least two different energy converters and two different energy storage systems on board the vehicle for the purpose of propelling the vehicle. Projects must result in at least a 25% reduction of emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x ).

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Keeping your Nissan LEAF?

Electric Auto Association

If I was to keep the car, I would need to replace the battery pack (yet again), and if I were to go to that trouble (and expense), then it would make sense to purchase something larger than the current 24 kWh version. 22-36 PIN adapter.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

Cars That Think

Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In A multiplexer processed this data, and an analog-to-digital converter changed it to a pulse-code modulated signal. In the false-color image, shown at top, reds are vegetation and grays and whites are urban or rocky land.)

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Traction Action

Plug In Partners

The Austin Independent School District has agreed to purchase one of the buses. IC Corporation, the nation’s largest school bus manufacturer, will build 19 plug-in hybrid school buses to be used in 11 states as part of a consortium organized by Advanced Energy, a Raleigh, N.C. based nonprofit corporation.