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President Obama launches $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership; Ford involved as an initial partner

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in low-tech industries and products and not just due to low wages abroad, but in the production of high tech products, including those resulting from US innovation and. The AMP will be led by Andrew Liveris, Chairman, President, and CEO of Dow Chemical, and Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Kiessling Transit orders 32 more Lightning Hybrids hydraulic hybrid buses

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Kiessling Transit, a Massachusetts-based transportation company, is ordering 32 more hydraulic hybrid buses equipped with Lighting Hybrids’ Energy Recovery System (ERS) for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. Kiessling Transit Ford E-450 paratransit bus with Lightning Hybrids system installed. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Daniel Ford, Managing Director and the head of US Utilities Equity Research for Barclays Capital noted that utilities are mature, capital-intensive, highly-regulated groups of companies that are local monopolies. —Dan Ford. Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-founder, A123Systems, Inc.

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Electric Vehicle Spotlight: Financing Tesla Cybertruck 

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The journey from concept to reality was a rocky one, fraught with production delays, price changes, and brake issues outlined in leaked engineering reports. Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicles. But despite the setbacks and missteps, the first deliveries of the Cybertruck have finally arrived. And plenty more !

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an. substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. biomass production. Description.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The selected projects range from improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products. Collaborators include Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ford Motor Company. production.