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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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These include hydrogen fuel cells, battery electric engines, and related infrastructure investments such as charging stations. Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS). New Jersey Transit Corporation. Forty-one projects in 40 states and the District of Columbia will receive funding through the program. Description. 793,420.

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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation. Evatran plans to have over twenty installations as part of the Apollo Trial Program. Penetration in 2012 was only a fraction of 1% of vehicles sold.

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FedEx Converts 92 Delivery Trucks to Hybrids, Expanding Hybrid-Electric Fleet by 50%

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The hybrid conversions were produced in Charlotte, N.C. The converted hybrids were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation, which provided the hybrid-electric systems ( earlier post ). The baseline engine for earlier FedEx hybrids was a 5.9L, 6-cylinder, 175 hp Cummins ISB.

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Is standard lithium LTD a sham?

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Albemarle : Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a market cap of $26.8bn. This project is in partnership with Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC) and Jujuy Energía y Minería Sociedad del Estado (JEMSE). LiSTR is based on three patent applications it purchased in 2018 from an apparent one-man engineering shop.

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FedEx boosts fleet with hybrid-electric trucks

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The hybrid conversions took place in Charlotte, North Carolina over the last six months and were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation. ISB EPA 07 200hp EGR diesel engine and an Eaton hybrid-electric system featuring lithium-ion batteries for energy storage.

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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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City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Caltrode, Inc.