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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

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With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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Despite a Slight Recovery in 2009, Arctic Sea Ice Remains on Downward Trend

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Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains on a trend leading toward ice-free Arctic summers, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center. Earlier post.).

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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

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ICESat measurements of winter multi-year ice cover in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2008, along with the corresponding downward trend in overall winter sea ice volume, and switch in dominant ice type from multi-year ice to first-year ice. Courtesy of Norbert Untersteiner, University of Washington. Credit: Ron Kwok, NASA/JPL.

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

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His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. In 2004, together with other physicians and engineers, he created a company to develop solutions based on his innovations. Joe Fisher is devoted to the light side of human ingenuity, medicine.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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Only a select few experts are capable of analyzing this esoteric data, and until 2004, they did it mostly in their heads. Smith, a data scientist who specializes in infectious disease informatics at the University of Cambridge, set out in the early 2000s to understand the antigenic differences among strains of flu in a more precise way.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CalCars PRIUS+/Ron Gremban, Fall 2004 Ron Gremban, CalCars team; initially with EnergyCS technology (not used in redesigned conversion) Marin County, CA info@calcars.org 2. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org. Contact mike@.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Power and Associates 2004 report ]. For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids. How can I help?

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