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GILLIG posts highest score for battery-electric bus at Altoona

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The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Bus Test Program, conducted by the Larson Transportation Institute’s Bus Research and Testing Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, evaluates how well vehicles perform under conditions that simulate the rigorous duty cycles required of transit buses. repair hours of unscheduled maintenance.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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This project complements USDA’s Wood-to-Energy Initiative; it seeks to build a forest restoration economy by integrating energy feedstock within the larger forest products sector to sustain rural jobs and prosperity. ReEnergy Holdings LLC, has three committed facilities dedicated to purchasing from growers in the project area.

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ARPA-E awards $32M to 10 new projects to improve connected and automated vehicle efficiency

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Fuel Economy Optimization with Dynamic Skip Fire in a Connected Vehicle The Ohio State University team with its partners will develop a transformational vehicle dynamics and powertrain (VD&PT) controls solution that leverages a novel ignition and air-management control technology to significantly improve vehicle energy efficiency.

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

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After six months of 80-hour weeks and sleepless nights, SS MAPR was able to finish its maiden voyage with water samples and data collected from the bottom of the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania. By doing what they do best, robots can play a big role in accelerating the fight against climate change by enabling economies of scale.

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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 goal is for the projects to advance technologies early enough in their development cycles to permit the full scope of their technical benefits to be shared across a broad cross-section of the domestic economy. Technology; University of California Santa Barbara; and The Pennsylvania State. The Pennsylvania State. University.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But as of this spring, the average new vehicle sold in America—across everything from large pickup trucks to small economy hatchbacks—the average transaction price was $42,000. From Pittsburgh to the town of Gardiner, N.Y., What do we predict?