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This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a Reality

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The SEC Goes After Broadcoms Stock Option Grants This sharing of the wealth, ironically, led to one of the darkest chapters in Samuelis story. He had resigned from the company in 2003, and around the same time as the stock options investigation, he was indicted for distribution of illegal drugs. In the mid-2000s, the U.S.

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Dalma Novak’s Journey From Professor to Entrepreneur

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The company went out of business in 2003. We decided that we were going to fund our own company and bootstrapped it through research grants, Novak says. The company initially was constrained to working on projects for which they received funding, but it has evolved and no longer applies for research grants, Novak says.

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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 news comes as part of Houston Metro being selected among projects to receive funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Accelerating Innovative Mobility ( AIM ) grant of nearly $1.5 As the inaugural class of AIM incubators, provide industry leadership in sharing project outcomes with the public transportation community.

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Plug In America Awards Grants to Support Formula Hybrid Competition

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Plug In America , the non-profit plug-in vehicle advocacy organization, has awarded grants of $15,000 each to student teams at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Irvine and UC San Diego to design, build and race plug-in hybrid cars in the 2009 Formula Hybrid International Competition.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. is providing incentives to voluntarily replace 19 drayage trucks operating 1995-2003 engines. Delaware and Virginia.

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Allison Transmission Prepares to Manufacture New Hybrid Commercial-Duty Truck Drive Systems in Indianapolis

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million matching grant in 2009 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to increase the United States’ capacity to manufacture cost efficient, fuel-efficient commercial-duty hybrid truck propulsion systems. Allison Transmission has been producing hybrid propulsion systems for city transit buses since 2003. Allison was being awarded a $62.8

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MCCA and Zipcar introduce new Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrids, charging stations, and priority parking in Boston Common Garage

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The charging stations were funded through a US Department of Energy grant. Zipcar is also the first to offer hybrid vehicles through a partnership with Honda in Seattle in 2003. In addition, the BCG is branding priority parking spots for hybrids near each of the garage’s four entrances to Boston Common.

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