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USDOT FTA announces $182M in Low-No grants for transit vehicles & facilities nationwide

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FTA’s Low-No Program supports transit agencies in purchasing or leasing low- or no-emission buses and other transit vehicles that use technologies such as battery electric and fuel-cell power to provide cleaner, more efficient transit service in communities across the country. Delaware Transit Corporation. City of Fort Collins (CO).

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UPS Deploys 200 More Hybrid Delivery Trucks

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Long Island, Minneapolis and Louisville. The HEV fleet features two different size vehicles from Workhorse Custom Chassis and Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation and a hybrid power system from Eaton Corporation. Before this latest deployment, UPS was operating 50 hybrid electrics in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix.

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Azure Dynamics announces sales of 29 Transit Connect Electrics

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Azure Dynamics Corporation announced 29 new Ford Transit Connect Electric sales, including 8 units in Europe and 21 units in North America, which includes a 3-unit reorder from Johnson Controls, Inc. Boyer Ford in Minneapolis, MN. Harris Ford in Lynnwood, WA (2 units). Metro Motors Ltd in Port Coquitlam, BC (2 units).

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Cummins Demonstrates Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power System

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The Cummins APU incorporated hybrid power electronics, system controls, and balance-of-plant components combined with SOFC modules supplied by Protonex Technology Corporation. The hybrid power electronics provide dynamic load sharing between the SOFC and a battery pack. Average net power produced over test period: 1,100W DC or 820W AC.

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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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The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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Those difficulties in the consumer area led to a corporate pretax loss of $28.9 Zenith has not officially confirmed that its television business is on the auction block, confining itself merely to the statement that it is examining “all options to restore corporate profitability to a satisfactory level.” To probe further. 26, 1957.

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Xcel Energy and Customer Coalition To Be Among First Users of Electric Transit Connect

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Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, will add two of the 13 vans into its corporate fleet. The company is finalizing agreements with others eligible to participate, including the city of Minneapolis and Hennepin County in Minnesota and the city of Denver in Colorado. The city of Saint Paul, Minn.,