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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. Kairos Power, Oakland, Calif. Madison, Wis. Raleigh, N.C. SunPower, San Jose, Calif.

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

Green Car Congress

AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) will provide technical assistance to TBTA.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

They are all interconnected with an above-ground pre-engineered interconnection. ” Furthermore, the product is currently independently rated for 125 mph wind speeds, and we’ll soon be rated for 150. Most famously, the City of Oakland used the EV ARCs that they had deployed at their offices during the height of COVID.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products. Wang says the engineers come from Chinas best schools. You want to meet him."

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