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US DOT awards $13.6M to 8 projects to advance fuel cell technology for transit industry

Green Car Congress

Battery Dominant Fuel Cell Hybrid Bus Develops and demonstrates a battery-dominant fuel cell bus based on a commercial hybrid platform, and smaller, less expensive fuel cells. The bus will operate in similar service to the American Fuel Cell Bus, allowing direct comparison.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. When I returned to New York City in 1981, after a decade of living in other places, Manhattan’s raw sewage was still being released without treatment into the Hudson River.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV). The cost of platinum makes hydrogen fuel cells an expensive proposition even in comparison to lithium-ion batteries. In comparison to a pure battery electric vehicle, FCEVs are more complex and heavier.

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

Cars That Think

told the New York Society of Security Analysts that Xerox was determined to develop “the architecture of information” to solve the problems that had been created by the “knowledge explosion.” He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models. Way to go morons.

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