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Cummins investing more than $1B in US engine manufacturing network

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In addition to recent investments in Fridley, Cummins is investing more than $1 billion across its US engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York. Over half of all medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the road in the US today use Cummins engines, the company said. The Cummins Power Systems factory is a 1.1

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NREL study finds 2nd-generation diesel hybrid delivery vans show significant gains in fuel economy over conventional vans

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on an 18-month evaluation of in-service second-generation diesel-electric hybrid delivery vans and found significant fuel economy benefits of the hybrids compared to similar conventional vans. —NREL Project Engineer Michael Lammert.

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Cummins Demonstrates Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power System

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The SOFC APU system form factor and mission capabilities are comparable to commercially available diesel engine-based APU generators, highlighting the ability of the SOFC APU to be integrated into the same form factor as existing production hardware. Average net power produced over test period: 1,100W DC or 820W AC.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Further, the system was designed for one-way power, not for distributed renewable-energy devices sending power back into the system. Policy runs up against engineering reality The situation in Palo Alto is not unique. A big problem is the 3,150 distribution transformers in the city, Marshall indicated.

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ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics progressing in their algal biofuels partnership; preliminary results from lifecycle analysis

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At the 2011 Algae Biomass Summit in Minneapolis, Dr. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work and described some preliminary results from a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of different algal biofuel production pathways being done by the two partners along with MIT.

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ExxonMobil, MIT and Synthetic Genomics team publishes results of LCA on algal biofuels; potential for large reductions in GHG

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Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. At the 2011 Algae Biomass Summit in Minneapolis, Dr. Michael Matturro, Corporate Programs Laboratory Director for ExxonMobil, provided a brief overview of the scope of the work.

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DOE, USDA awarding $12.6M to 10 biomass genomics research projects for improved biofuels

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million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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