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Consortium Seeks Stimulus Funding for DME-Electric Hybrid Buses

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A consortium is seeking US stimulus funding available through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) program to convert 20 hybrid diesel-electric buses to hybrid dimethyl-ether (DME)-electric propulsion.

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Enova Announces 16 Unit Hybrid School Bus Order; Initial Deployment of Federal Stimulus Dollars for School Buses

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This interest should continue to grow as more tax credits and incentives become available to ease the transition to hybrid school buses. Several states and school districts have expressed interest in expanding their hybrid school bus fleets, Enova said.

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New report showcases innovative finance tools to electrify truck, bus fleets; TCE Toolkit

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Further, when the full range of costs, risks, uncertainties and frictions are thoroughly inventoried, understood and evaluated, an array of tools available to policymakers and other stakeholders to overcome those barriers becomes apparent. confidence to commit to and successfully realize fleet electrification efforts.

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Continental Mobility Study 2020 finds many people still have doubts about EVs

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The four main arguments of electrosceptics are evenly distributed from an international perspective: the low availability of charging stations, range anxiety, the need for charging breaks on longer journeys, and the high price when compared with cars with combustion engines. Only in France is the price the most discouraging factor.

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MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

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You can easily see how the accuracy of the map improves significantly as the robots talk to each other: More details and code are available on GitHub. Below is an example of the map generated by three robots as they travel a total of more than two kilometers.

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EV Project collects more than 24 million miles of EV operating data since inception

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These white papers will be available to the public at www.theevproject.com. ECOtality is the project manager of The EV Project, a public-private partnership funded in part by the US Department of Energy (DOE) through a federal stimulus grant and made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

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Dow to produce advantaged materials for energy storage; initial focus on automotive

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With an initial focus on the automotive market, Dow will sell advantaged materials that will enable manufacturers of rechargeable lithium ion batteries to produce batteries with extended run times, increased power and operational life, with equal or enhanced safety performance than what is commercially available today.