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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Chasing EVs for 50 years Smith, who grew up on a family farm in Maryland, began working on bicycles when he was a child, and built his own ebike at 14. “I His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained.

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

Green Car Congress

The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit. University of New Mexico aims to develop advanced gas sensors (mixed potential electrochemical [MPE]) coupled with advanced computation (artificial neural networks).

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