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US Public Transit Ridership in 2008 At Highest Level in 52 years; 10.7B Trips

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increase over the number of trips taken in 2007 on public transportation, while at the same time, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) declined by 3.6% Light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) had the highest percentage of annual ridership increase among all modes, with an 8.3% Americans took 10.7 This represents a 4.0%

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Small modular reactor company Gen4 Energy will not pursue DOE SMR Licensing funding

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Gen4 Energy, based in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 2007, and is working in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, under the DOE Technology Transfer program, to develop an advanced design nuclear reactor referred to as the Gen4 Module (G4M). Earlier post.).

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. The CNG-Hybrid buses are heavy duty and larger than the current light duty Ford vehicles.

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Study finds 2008 recession contributed to increase in age of US LDV fleet, slowing of emission reductions

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The global economic recession of 2008—which severely depressed light-duty vehicle sales—resulted in an increase in the age of the light-duty vehicle fleet in the US that likely slowed the rate of decrease of fleet average emissions, according to a study by Gary Bishop and Donald Stedman at the University of Denver.

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Chevrolet Vega Kammback

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The Vega has been a junkyard rarity for decades now, but I just found six early Vegas all within a couple of rows of one another in a Denver self-service yard. General Motors built more than two million Chevy Vegas , and they were everywhere on the roads of North America through about the second half of the 1980s.

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Study concludes that NG leakage higher than reflected in inventories; transportation fuel climate benefits questioned

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In contrast to the “green light” for coal-to-NG substitution for power generation, the authors suggest that climate benefits from vehicle fuel substitution are uncertain (gasoline, light-duty) or improbable (diesel, heavy-duty). Definitions of error bar bounds vary between studies. (US, See SM for figure construction details.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hourcar by Hymotion, August 2006 (Twin Cities, MN), contact info@hourcar.org Southern California Edison by EnergyCS, August 2006 (Los Angeles County) Manitoba Hydro by EnergyCS, August 2006, then converted by Hymotion, November 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact jeinnes@hydro.mb.ca 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Jim Tech Ltd.

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