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DOE awards $18M to 5 projects to accelerate development of plug-in electric vehicles & use of other alternative fuels

Green Car Congress

million to develop and demonstrate plug-in hybrid work trucks (class 7) that reduce fuel consumption by more than 50% and eliminate fuel consumption during stationary operations. Blue Bird Body Company will receive $4.9 Odyne Systems, LLC will receive $2.9 Blossman Services will receive $2 million to develop a 4.3L

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

Cars That Think

And the reactors themselves are getting better, too: Fourth-generation small modular reactors (SMRs) being developed by companies including U.S.-based A large merchant ship, capable of carrying thousands of containers, could be powered by two (or more) 30-megawatt reactors.