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BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in electric bus company Proterra; part of $55M round

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Electric bus manufacturer Proterra has closed a $55-million Series 6 round, on the heels of an oversubscribed $140-million Series 5 in January. Currently, the company has sold more than 400 vehicles to cities and communities in the US, including Seattle, Dallas, Nashville, San Jose, Philadelphia and Reno.

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Indy 500 race vehicles are working on one hundred pc renewable gas and tires with recycled plastics

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With their unique greenwalls, those tires were given their real-world take a look at endmost while on the Nashville Lavish Prix. Bridgestone grows its personal guayule shrubs at a farm in Arizona, and the environmentally pleasant Firehawk tires are made on the corporate’s Complicated Check Manufacturing Middle in Akron, Ohio.

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Eaton Advances Integrated Solar-Assisted Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Collaboration with Tennessee Valley Authority and EPRI

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Eaton Corporation is collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on a prototype integrated solar-assisted electric vehicle charging station to be erected at EPRI’s research laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. Nose-to-nose parking layout with a center access aisle.

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ECOtality Expands to Australia

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Major auto manufacturers including Renault-Nissan and Mitsubishi have announced plans to introduce electric vehicles to Australia by 2011. Through its wholly-owned US subsidiary, Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), ECOtality has been involved in every major North American electric vehicle initiative since the 1990s.

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Underwriters Laboratories Named Exclusive Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory for The EV Project

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The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc. Manufacturers work with UL to develop safer products and increase consumer confidence. to test and certify eTec’s vehicle charging stations that will be used in the project.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. IBM's original manufacturing forecasts called for 1 million machines over three years, with 200,000 the first year. He protested that Corporate had transferred thousands of programmers to him who knew nothing about PCs.

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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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These projects, selected through a highly competitive process by the Department of Energy (DOE), are intended to accelerate the development of US manufacturing capacity for batteries and electric drive components as well as the deployment of electric drive vehicles. General Motors Corporation. Industry officials expect that this $2.4

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