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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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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University. Helping engineering students succeed Alexander was born in Amherst, Ohio, where he became interested in mechanical engineering at a young age.

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Ford to expand 3-Wet Paint capacity by 50% globally in 2013

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Ford was the first automaker to implement the 3-Wet high-solids solvent-borne technology in 2007; it now has eight plants in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe equipped to use the process to paint vehicles. Ohio Assembly Plant, Avon Lake, Ohio; Cuautitlán Assembly Plant, Cuautitlán, Mexico; Michigan Assembly Plant, Wayne, Mich.;

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EPRI calculates technically recoverable US riverine hydrokinetic potential at 3% of annual electricity demand

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The results show that the Lower Mississippi region contributes almost half (47.9%) of the technically recoverable resource estimate; Alaska 17.1%, the Pacific Northwest region 9.2%, and, the Ohio region 5.7%. Collectively these four regions represent 80% of the technically recoverable hydrokinetic resource in the continental United States.

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NASA satellite images highlight US air quality improvement with reduction of NO2

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The new NASA images also take a close up look at the Ohio River Valley, Northeast Corridor, and some populous US cities. They show how nitrogen dioxide concentrations during spring and summer months, averaged from 2005-2007, compare to the average from 2009-2011.

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

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The new alternative fuel vehicles join other propane vehicles already operating for DHL Express in Ohio, Tennessee and Louisiana. They all complement Deutsche Post DHL’s GOGREEN program and its target to improve the company’s worldwide carbon efficiency 30% by 2020, using 2007 levels as a baseline.

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NHTSA issues safety advisory on preventing undercarriage corrosion to prevent brake-line failures; closes GM investigation

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The agency’s Vehicle Research and Test Center in Ohio conducted a survey that gathered data from approximately 2,000 owners of GM and peer vehicles from the period. Investigators also examined 71 randomly selected vehicles in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland and Ohio.

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