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New Flyer to start development of first 60' fuel cell hybrid bus in North America; introduces 40' battery-electric bus

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and Siemens on the bus that will be operated by Connecticut Transit (CTTransit) for 22 months of in-revenue-service operations. Upon the success of this program, New Flyer will offer this vehicle to customers throughout the United States and Canada. New Flyer is partnering with Ballard Power Systems Inc.,

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Pune, India).

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Toyota FCV Mirai launches in LA; initial TFCS specs; $57,500 or $499 lease; leaning on Prius analogy

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This includes hot testing in Death Valley, cold testing in Yellowknife, Canada, steep grade hill climbs in San Francisco and high altitude trips in Colorado. In 2016, Air Liquide, in collaboration with Toyota, is targeting construction of 12 stations in five states – New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. Xerox could not afford to have people think they were flakes.” PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y., and Toronto, Ont.,

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