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Center for Automotive Research awarded Federal grant to study automotive bio-based materials cluster

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The $1,471,800 grant will be shared amongst CAR and its partners, the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC), Macomb/St. —Kim Hill, director of the Sustainability and Economic Development Strategies group and project lead at CAR. The project encompasses a contiguous 22-county area in southeast Michigan.

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GILLIG posts highest score for battery-electric bus at Altoona

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The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Bus Test Program, conducted by the Larson Transportation Institute’s Bus Research and Testing Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, evaluates how well vehicles perform under conditions that simulate the rigorous duty cycles required of transit buses.

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Tesla range lawsuit, electric Minis, Nikola, and biogas: Today's Car News

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Startup heavy truckmaker Nikola won a federal grant to improve fuel cells. All this and more on Green Car. Mini may go all-electric with its next generation of models. And a European project worked out how to get as much range and efficiency from natural-gas engines as from gasoline.

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Peer-to-peer car sharing service Getaround launches in Austin, Texas

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Peer-to-peer car sharing company Getaround announced its official launch in Austin, Texas. million federal grant and expands its reach to four major cities. This announcement closely follows the company’s February launch in the greater Portland metropolitan area with a $1.7

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Free Electric-Car Charges Start To Depart; What's A Fair Fee?

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Plug-In electric car drivers in several regions have enjoyed free public charging at many locations. All of these charging stations were installed with Federal grant funding, so the business owners did not pay anything for what is presumably a.

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CEO of failed 350Green charging network pleads guilty to fraud

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The former CEO of electric-car charging network 350 Green pleaded guilty last week to fraudulently obtaining federal grants intended to be used for installation of public charging stations, notably in the Chicago area.

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Sea-Tac Airport launches major ground support equipment electrification project

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million in airline fuel costs and 10,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions—the equivalent of taking 1,900 cars off the road. The $31-million project is funded in large part through federal grants. The US Department of Energy provided $5 million through a grant with the Western Washington Clean Cities Coalition.

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