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California Energy Commission approves $46.6M for hydrogen refueling and $2.8M for EV charging projects

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The California Energy Commission gave final approval for nearly $50 million in grant awards for hydrogen refueling and electric charging construction projects recommended for funding in notices of proposed awards published in April and May. California’s zero-emission vehicle goal is to get 1.5

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Frito-Lay boosts electric fleet; 275 electric trucks by the end of 2012

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The new all-electric trucks will operate from distribution centers located throughout California: Alameda, City of Industry, La Mirada, Manteca, San Diego, San Jose and Torrance. In May of this year, Frito-Lay reached a milestone of one million all-electric miles driven.

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Plug-in readiness reports show wide difference between California regions

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The grant also included support for PEV community readiness reports for Los Angeles, Sacramento, the Bay Area and Central Coast. Only about 5% have considered such issues because of limited staff resources and lack of public demand. This is in addition to $2,500 from the statewide Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.

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U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

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The collaboration was announced this week in San Jose at the second annual OpenPOWER Summit 2016. Working with IBM, U-M researchers have designed a computing resource called ConFlux to enable high performance computing clusters to communicate directly and at interactive speeds with data-intensive operations.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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Coulomb Technologies unveiled San Francisco's first ChargePoint America charge stations yesterday in a Priority Parking lot along the Embarcadero. The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. As Richard Lowenthal said to me at the event: "Great deal!"

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., He was granted two U.S. Provide resources to help members elevate to IEEE Senior Members and IEEE Fellows. Growth and Nurturing: Provide access to IEEE resources for up-skilling worldwide. Life Fellow Thomas M. Nominated by Petition.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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Jonathan Macias Current Profession: Grant Manager for County Government and CEO/Founder of Sky Island, LLC How will you add value to the EAA Board? Writing a grant to fund the expansion of 15 Level 2 community chargers within the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico. What is your most effective contribution toward the adoption of EVs?