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Study finds road conditions in US states worsening in important categories

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Missouri, Maine and Kentucky round out the top five states. Similarly, the study’s three traffic fatality categories—overall, urban and rural—all show more fatalities in 2016 than in any year since 2007. The most positive news is on bridges, where 39 states lowered the percentage of bridges deemed structurally deficient.

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Johnson Controls providing AGM batteries for Start-Stop F-150

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Since 2007, Johnson Controls has produced 28 million AGM batteries. Joseph, Missouri; Toledo, Ohio; Changxing, China; Gumi, South Korea and Hannover, Germany. In 2013, Johnson Controls began supplying batteries for Ford’s Fusion Auto Start-Stop vehicle.

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DHL Express adds 100 more propane autogas vans for pickup and delivery fleet

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The new Ford E-250 cargo vans, each equipped with a ROUSH CleanTech dedicated liquid propane autogas fuel system, will be on the road by late August 2012 and will support DHL Express pickup and delivery service within California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas.

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GAO report finds DOE not actively considering any applications for Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program

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The ATVM loan program was established in 2007 by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) to provide up to $25 billion in loans for projects to produce more fuel-efficient passenger vehicles and their components. billion in loan authority or $4.2 DOE has made five loans worth $8.4 billion and used $3.3

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EV gateway

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This go-kart, Garver explained, dates back to 2007, when chapter members built and electrified a very basic, homegrown version after a founding member thought it would be effective to show at outreach events. “So My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri.

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Electric Auto Association

This go-kart, Garver explained, dates back to 2007, when chapter members built and electrified a very basic, homegrown version after a founding member thought it would be effective to show at outreach events. “So My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri.

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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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a five-spot well configuration was drilled in the summer of 2007 consisting of a center injection well surrounded by four monitoring wells. The final phase, the development phase (2007–2017), will conduct large-volume carbon storage tests. In collaboration with Eagle Operating Inc.,

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