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6.8M gallons in new contracts for Redeem renewable natural gas

Green Car Congress

The upgrade will increase the availability of Redeem at the nation’s largest alternative fuel station in America’s largest port complex. has signed a 5-year maintenance and RNG supply contract for an anticipated one million gallons of Redeem to fuel its 70 street sweepers. The company services over 2.5 The City has also received $1.1-million

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Ford prices Auto Start-Stop system in non-hybrid 2013 Fusion 1.6L EcoBoost model at $295

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lasting service with no additional maintenance; a 12V enhanced. Some communities—such as Denver, Colo. Ford is making Auto Start-Stop available for non-hybrids in the US with the new 1.6-liter On average, Auto Start-Stop improves fuel efficiency by about 3.5%. starter motor to provide seamless engine starts once a driver.

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

Green Car Congress

An attractive feature of EDS, according to the report, is its inherent ability to compensate for variations in payload weight, dynamic loads, and guideway irregularities through rapid changes in the magnetic field (via the control system) resulting in the maintenance of the proper vehicle-guideway air gaps.

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

Green Car Congress

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. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

But take a look at the variety of program available. She outlines the variety of choices available in a white paper. Lyft claims it is the fastest-growing ride share service and is available in 190 cities worldwide. Like they say about real estate, with car sharing it is location, location, location. In the U.S.

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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

Cars That Think

In 2005, faulty software for the US $176 million baggage-handling system at Denver International Airport forced the whole thing to be scrapped. Testing and debugging remain the bread and butter of software reliability and maintenance. Consider just a few of the more well-known software failures of the past two decades.

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Junkyard Find: 1983 Volvo DL Sedan With 327k Miles

The Truth About Cars

I've been writing about junkyardified cars here at TTAC since November of 2010, when I documented a pair of Fiat 128s in a Denver boneyard. The 200 Series Volvos were screwed together pretty well, and many of their American owners love their cars enough to perform regular maintenance and get them fixed when something expensive breaks.

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