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Winnebago, Motiv unveil all-electric healthcare vehicles

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The Mobile Lung Unit features: The world’s first portable, battery-powered, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner, BodyTom, featuring an innovative internal drive system that can be easily transported. Motiv Power Systems all-electric/zero-emissions EPIC chassis, removing the need to idle an engine.

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USDOT announces $84.9M through Lo-No program to expand advanced bus technologies

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Eligible projects include the purchase or lease of buses powered by modern, efficient technologies. These include hydrogen fuel cells, battery electric engines, and related infrastructure investments such as charging stations. The Anaheim Transportation Network will receive funds to purchase advanced battery-electric buses.

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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Fly the Hybrid Skies

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Two of GE’s CT7 engines will be combined with electric propulsion units to demonstrate a megawatt-class parallel hybrid electric system. We are in the early stages of a key transition: Electrification could be the first fundamental change in airplane propulsion systems since the advent of the jet engine. Why Hybrid Electric?

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