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Clean Energy Fuels delivered 143M gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas in 2019, up 30% year-on-year

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The City of Philadelphia has started to replace its diesel refuse trucks with CNG trucks, contracting with Clean Energy to retrofit its city garage to make it CNG-compliant. Clean Energy will also design, build, operate and maintain a 43-truck private time-fill CNG station, with room for expansion, at the same location.

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FTA selects 7 projects to receive $22.5M in grants for battery-electric and fuel cell buses, infrastructure

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FTA awarded the FY 2015 funds after a competitive review process that prioritized transit agencies and bus manufacturers with strong records in building, deploying, and operating clean buses and infrastructure. This program builds on UTA’s extensive commitment to low and no-emission vehicles and technology. King County.

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Clean Energy wins $10M, multi-year transit deal with New Jersey Transit

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Clean Energy Fuels has won a $10-million, multi-year procurement from New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, which links major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia and provides close to 223 million passenger trips each year. In 2015, Dillon’s fleet consumed 1.1

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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A decade later he earned a master’s degree in engineering from Drexel University , in Philadelphia. The series led to the creation of a symposium that sought to build bridges between faculty in the humanities, engineering, and science. He recently served as acting director of MIT’s engineering systems division.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Automakers have entered this market with mixed results, building substantial membership levels in only a few years, but they are also challenged with the new MaaS business model. RelayRides changed its name to Turo in 2015 and has been described as an “Airbnb for real peoples’ cars.” In the U.S.

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Hyperloop: An Engineering Marvel or An Elite Day Dream

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“Although Hyperloop will be fast, the systems we are building will accelerate with the same tolerable G-forces as that of taking off in a Boeing 747,” and acceleration and deceleration will be gradual with no G-forces and turbulence it added. Hyperloop: How Much Do The Tickets Cost? ” Now the real question.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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This reduction will happen mostly thanks to better building practices, not greater housing density. The study analyzes how extensively local planning policies could either complement the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) of 2015 or compensate for its absence. — Landis et al.