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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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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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includes Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, will provide first. responder and vehicle maintenance technician training; develop. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. Transportation and.

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Volvo CE and Mack Trucks deliver electric excavator and refuse truck to Florida waste hauler – Charged EVs

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Volvo Construction Equipment and Mack Trucks , both Volvo Group companies, recently delivered an electric excavator and an electric refuse truck to Boca Raton, Florida-based Coastal Waste & Recycling, which has 25 locations in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and operates more than 700 vehicles.

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Ford to invest $1.8B in R&D in China

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When launched, these new conveniently-located outlets will provide basic vehicle servicing such as oil changes and other routine maintenance, making vehicle ownership even easier for customers. More than 80% of Ford passenger cars in China are available with EcoBoost engines, up from 20% just five years ago. Greening manufacturing.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The company is currently testing samples of the battery, expects the product to be commercially available in 2013, and has already built a list of several companies who have committed to buy the product. This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. Third Wave Systems, Inc.,

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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The project will ultimately provide data in community-defined formats that will be made available to researchers in a high-performance computing environment and archived for public use. Compared to conventional electricity generation and transmission, CHP captures the otherwise wasted heat and makes it available for useful application.