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DOE to award up to $2.5M to deploy fuel-cell-powered baggage tow tractors at commercial airports

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million this year to demonstrate and to deploy fuel-cell-electric baggage tow tractors (BTT) at major US commercial airports. The target market is commercial airports and air freight distribution centers used by passenger airlines and air freight industries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $2.5

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. Why nuclear-powered ships? Why nuclear-powered ships? Cost also played a big role in NuScale Power Corp.’s

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What Does GM’s “30 New EVs By 2025” Promise Mean for the US Market?

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GM Stock Chart: Yahoo Finance. On January 28 GM announced that it plans (aspires) to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines. And then this past week, GM released its humorous “ No Way Norway ” EV commercial featuring Will Ferrell.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. and Toronto, Ont., But Xerox resisted.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power.

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