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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

Green Car Congress

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University will receive funds to purchase zero-emission electric buses, which will replace diesel buses that have reached the end of their useful life. The Transit Authority of the City of Omaha (Metro). 2,369,500.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. For the next 8 years, approximately 23 students per semester enrolled in Cox’s class, and when he established a similar course at the Omaha campus (UNO), the average was closer to 12.

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

Green Car Congress

This includes the southern boundary of the University of Texas Austin (Block Chain 1); West 15 th Street (Block Chain 2); 11 th Street south of the State Capitol (Block Chain 3); 5 th and 6 th Streets (Block Chain 4); and along the Colorado River in Downtown (Block Chain 5). —Avery Ash, autonomous vehicle market strategist at INRIX.

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DEI Fund Supports STEM Workshops and Coding Camps

Cars That Think

This four-day education series aims to encourage underrepresented and economically disadvantaged preuniversity students in Omaha to pursue an undergraduate degree in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics subject. Raspberry Pi coding workshop.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The car came straight to Omaha from the Detroit auto show. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. In between, they stopped in Omaha. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US "How did BYD get so far ahead?"

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