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Big Blue Bus investing $18.2M to upgrade bus fleet; Cummins-Westport Near-Zero NOx engines

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Seven 30-foot Gillig buses are being placed in service now; an additional twenty 40-foot Gillig buses will be delivered and commissioned in October 2018. Slip Resistant Flooring: Buses will also feature durable and slip resistant flooring that allows for increased safety and easy maintenance. Earlier post.).

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XL to launch plug-in hybrid electric Ford F-250 pickup at NTEA Work Truck Show

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In 2018 at the NTEA show, XL displayed a hybrid-electric F-250, as well as the plug-in hybrid F-150. The truck will also feature regenerative braking, enabling it to store energy in the battery while slowing and then use that energy to help propel the vehicle during acceleration. Earlier post.).

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

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The exact date depends on when the Large Hadron Collider is set to renew proton-proton collisions after three years of upgrades and maintenance. The new detector was constructed while the collider was shut down from 2018 to 2021. The Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at CERN is slated to switch on in July 2022. FASER will.

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EFG Companies launches MAP Electric Vehicle Protection for EV customers; 11 years, 150k miles

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According to 2018 research from J.P. As electric vehicles gain market share, dealers are concerned with profit potential per unit and service drive retention on vehicles with thousands of fewer parts than traditional combustion engine vehicles. Additionally, most VSCs on the market are designed for traditional, combustion engines.

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These Are Your Extended Warranty Horror Stories

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Take commenter Eve65688363 who said this: "In 2018 I purchased a 2015 Honda Odyssey and purchased the extended warranty, I used it once for a battery replacement; a couple of years ago the alternator shot craps. Basically, it's good for handling a major failure in the engine and transmission of the unit, and nothing else.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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A consortium of leading global companies and top institutions have joined with SGH2 and the City of Lancaster to develop and implement the Lancaster project, including: Fluor, Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, Thermosolv, Integrity Engineers, Millenium, HyetHydrogen, and Hexagon. Now, most of these materials are stored or sent back to landfills.

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