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BMW i Ventures invests in Kodiak Robotics; autonomous long-haul trucking technology

Green Car Congress

The Kodiak Driver incorporates numerous autonomous trucking-specific innovations including its light-weight mapping technology. Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

Cars That Think

CNRS-AIST JRL] Wing’s progress can be charted along the increasingly dense environments in which we’ve been able to operate: from rural farms to lightly populated suburbs to more dense suburbs to large metropolitan areas like Brisbane, Australia; Helsinki, Finland; and the Dallas Fort Worth metro area in Texas.

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Clean Energy wins $10M, multi-year transit deal with New Jersey Transit

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Clean Energy Fuels has won a $10-million, multi-year procurement from New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, which links major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia and provides close to 223 million passenger trips each year. In 2015, Dillon’s fleet consumed 1.1

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, a tunnel of neon lights and mirrors by the artist Michael Hayden and the architect Helmut Jahn enlivens a subterranean passageway ( located after security in Terminal 1 between Concourses B and C). Not a cheese fan? The cupcake A.T.M.s,