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Tesla boosts its data collection team with hiring ramp for Prototype Vehicle Operators

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In the job’s description, Tesla notes that Prototype Vehicle Operators will be part of its vehicle data collection team.

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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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Houston Area — Texas Medical Center, Houston METRO HOV lanes, and Port of Houston. Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Area — UTA campus, Arlington streets, I-30 corridor and Managed Lanes. San Antonio Area — Fredericksburg Road/Medical Drive corridor and bus rapid transit system.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. High-Temperature Sensing Electronics for Downhole Smart Drilling, $150,000 NOV Wellbore Technologies, Houston, Texas Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, Durham, N.C. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vitriflex Inc., San Jose, Calif.

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APTA: public transportation ridership up 5% in first quarter 2012

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The ten light rail systems with the highest rates of growth were located in the following cities: Memphis, TN (45.7%); Salt Lake City, UT (34.1%); Seattle, WA – King County DOT (19.4%); Boston, MA (12.6%); Cleveland, OH (10.7%); Houston, TX (10.3%); Seattle, WA – Sound Transit (10.3%); Los Angeles, CA (9.9%); Sacramento, CA (8.5%); and St.

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EPA Proposes New Tougher Ground-Level Ozone Standards

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2010 in Arlington, Va. and in Houston; and 4 Feb. EPA will take public comment for 60 days after the proposed rule is published in the Federal Register. The agency will hold three public hearings on the proposal: 2 Feb. 2010 in Sacramento.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Arlington). If successful in this high-risk, high-reward research. effort, the ultimate goal of this project is to develop a. subsequently scalable process that demonstrates magnetic. National Renewable.

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