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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. When it arrived, the Oldsmobile Eighty Eight became the first production car available in the United States with a GPS navigation system. It was available on all three models for 1996.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

Green Car Congress

To construct the system model, project teams will use data that can be measured and obtained from currently available sources. To develop the software, project teams will use currently available data to simulate the transportation network of a US urban region and quantify how much energy is used in various transportation patterns.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, helps farmers and forest land owners with start-up costs of planting new energy crops that can take several years to reach maturity until harvest, a timeline designed to parallel the construction schedule of commercial-scale energy facilities that will use these crops.

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Following the Money in the Air-Taxi Craze

Cars That Think

Today, Joby has more than 1,000 employees and it’s backed by close to US $2 billion in investments, including $400 million from Toyota Motor Corporation along with big infusions from Uber and JetBlue. Laurie Garrow, Georgia Tech And somehow, the cost would be no greater, either. You can’t do that with a pilot in the seat.”

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. billion available for highway, transit, bridge, rail, shipyard and airport construction and repairs nationwide. The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. Of that, $26.5

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Promote electric vehicle adoption by increasing access to charging infrastructure and supporting the development of plug-in electric vehicles that are as accessible, available, and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles. Georgia Power. Southern Company: Georgia Power. Dayton Power & Light Company. Duke Energy. General Motors.

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