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California ARB holding Advanced Clean Transit Advisory Committee meeting in Jan; at work on regulatory proposal

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has tentaively scheduled the first Advanced Clean Transit Advisory Committee meeting for 29 January 2016 in Sacramento.

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Cummins ETHOS 2.8L optimized E-85 engine demonstrates 50-80% reduction in CO2 emissions in medium-duty truck

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A final on-road validation testing phase has been underway in the Sacramento, California, area since June and continuing into this month, and is being managed by Cummins Pacific, the exclusive California and Hawaii distributor for Cummins Inc. More than 1,000 miles and 1,500 hours have been accumulated on the ETHOS 2.8L The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. 16,080,554.

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

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O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. need to have multiple technologies in the future and not be tied to one like we are to gasoline now.Some of them may not be successful in the commercial marketplace, but it is unlikely that we will just have one.

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Rory Cooper’s Wheelchair Tech Makes the World More Accessible

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But Cooper hadn’t perfected the device when, after graduation in 1989, he joined California State University in Sacramento as a faculty member. The device became commercially available in 2000 and was used by the U.S. It worked for him: He received a bronze Paralympic medal in wheelchair racing in 1988.