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Fort Worth approves $68.9M incentive package for Linear Labs for electric motor manufacturing

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The City of Fort Worth, Texas has approved a $68.9-million Fort Worth is our home and we can see the strategic moves the city is making to shape its infrastructure into the next major technology hub. —Brad Hunstable, Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Labs.

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INRIX and Parkmobile bring end-to-end parking solution to the connected car

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Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Houston. INRIX launched the industry’s first dynamic off-street parking service in 2013, followed by the first integrated on-street parking solution in June 2015. Parkmobile’s solutions are available in 35 of the top 100 U.S.

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GE Transportation expands locomotive diesel engine remanufacturing facility; demand increasing in part from compliance requirements for EPA Tier 3 standards

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This increase will be driven by routine locomotive overhaul cycles and the need to comply with stringent EPA Tier 3 emissions standards for diesel engines by 2013. and Fort Worth, Tx. GE Transportation expects demand for remanufacturing services to increase significantly in coming years. Earlier post.). during 2011 and 2012.

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Cummins/Peterbilt SuperTruck shows 54% improvement in fuel economy, 61% improvement in freight efficiency

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Still to come are the 24-hour Cycle Freight Efficiency Demonstration (December 2013) and the 55% BTE scoping and demonstration (Aril 2014). l/100 km) during testing last fall on US Route 287 between Fort Worth and Vernon, Texas. During the reported test, the Class 8 Peterbilt 587 powered by a Cummins ISX15 engine averaged 9.9

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Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

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LL was established in 2013 after developing an entirely new methodology in the construction of electric motor and generator technologies that create more power while using less energy. Next-generation electric motor company Linear Labs (LL) closed a $4.5-million million seed round led by Science Inc. —Fred Hunstable, CTO of Linear Labs.

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TransCanada receives final key permit for Gulf Coast Project pipeline; construction set to begin this summer

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With the permit from the Fort Worth, Texas Army Corps district added to previously received permits from the Galveston, Texas and the Tulsa, Oklahoma districts, TransCanada is now in a position to start construction of the oil pipeline in the coming weeks. Earlier post.)

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In Meanwhile, Landsat 5 stayed the course, imaging the Earth from March 1984 to June 2013—an astounding 29 years. In the false-color image, shown at top, reds are vegetation and grays and whites are urban or rocky land.)

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