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DOE awards $18M to 5 projects to accelerate development of plug-in electric vehicles & use of other alternative fuels

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million to develop and demonstrate a battery-powered electric school bus that improves propulsion energy efficiency by 20-30% and that can connect to the electric grid (vehicle-to-grid). propane direct injection engine and emission control system that will be demonstrated on a package delivery vehicle.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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The Russian cargo vessel Sevmorput , commissioned in 1988, is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship still in operation as of early 2024. The other two ships, the Japanese Mutsu (1970) and the German Otto Hahn (1968), were both refitted with diesel engines partway through their service lives.

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Dominion Virginia Power Tests Plug-In Hybrid Cars, Hybrid Bucket Trucks

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The Prius PHEVs will be instrumented for data collection as part of a larger US Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho National Laboratories study of modified hybrid vehicles. The new hybrid trucks—and all on-road diesel trucks in Dominion Virginia Power’s fleet—operate on a blend of 80% diesel fuel and 20% biofuel produced in Virginia from soy.

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