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Big Blue Bus investing $18.2M to upgrade bus fleet; Cummins-Westport Near-Zero NOx engines

Green Car Congress

Big Blue Bus (BBB), a bus operator serving Santa Monica and the Los Angeles area, will invest $18.3 million in Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and California Proposition 1B Bond funds to replace fifty 40-foot New Flyer buses purchased between 2004 and 2006.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. Not all these companies will succeed, and Los Angeles–based Second Sight provides a cautionary tale for bold entrepreneurs interested in brain tech. approval in 2013. James Provost. Terry Byland.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. In 2004, Singh fielded her first query about hoax callers from the Coast Guard.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon. It takes 3Prong Power a little more than a day to convert a Prius to a plug-in, and costs customers about $6,700.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Detroit News ).

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