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Phoenix Motorcars, EasyMile win grant for development of first FMVSS-compliant autonomous shuttle bus in US

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The city of Houston is set to receive the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Buy America-compliant mid-size autonomous bus in the US. Jointly developed by Phoenix Motorcars and EasyMile , the EZ Zeus self-driving bus will be deployed in real-life traffic conditions.

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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

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If you owned a car that had traveled more than 400,000 miles during its life, could you bear to send it into the cold steel jaws of The Crusher ? Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. That car has been pushed down to 16th in the MMJO list.

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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

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A Honda Civic hybrid retrofitted with lead-carbon UltraBattery modules ( earlier post ) (provided by East Penn Manufacturing) has recorded more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) of courier duty in the local area of Phoenix, AZ. That’s when we approached the US DOE and Ecotality about operating a vehicle in a fleet in and around Phoenix.

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GreenPower delivers its first electric school bus in Arizona

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The BEAST has a 194 kWh lithium iron phosphate battery pack and a range of up to 150 miles, and standard dual port charging, with Level 2 charging rates of up to 19.2 The electric school bus was delivered to Phoenix Elementary School District #1, which operates 15 schools in the center of Phoenix.

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CMU team details impact of regional and drive-cycle variations on degradation of a PHEV battery pack

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Effect of air cooling on capacity fade and battery life when annual miles driven are 14,700 miles. a) Capacity Fade in Phoenix, comparison of air cooling vs no cooling for two drive cycles. (b) b) Capacity Fade in Phoenix and San Francisco, using GPS data. Air cooling can increase battery life by a factor of 1.5–6,

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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 hybrid group accumulated 33% fewer miles than the conventional group during the complete 18-month study. During dynamometer testing, three standard drive cycles were chosen to represent the range of delivery routes. The differences in per-mile maintenance and operating costs were not statistically significant. Source: NREL.

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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UPS is working to meet its goal of logging one billion miles with its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet by the end of 2017, using a Rolling Laboratory approach to determine the right alternative fuel solutions to meet the unique needs of route-specific driving environments. Phoenix, Ariz.; Columbia, S.C.; Trinidad, Colo.,

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