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DOE to Award $187M to 9 Projects to Improve Vehicle Efficiency for Heavy-Duty Trucks and Passenger Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Daimler Trucks North America, LLC. Develop and demonstrate technologies including engine downsizing, electrification of auxiliary systems such as oil and water pumps, waste heat recovery, improved aerodynamics and hybridization. 38,831,115. 39,559,868. . 37,328,933. Grantee Project Award. Chrysler Group LLC. 14,458,572.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, GM North America in GMs interviewed by Carlist.com ). —Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor North America, first non-Japanese member of Toyota Motors Board of Directors in exclusive interview at Edmunds.coms. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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