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Charlotte Douglas International Airport to buy 5 Proterra electric buses; 9th airport

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Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) has agreed to purchase five 35-foot Proterra Catalyst E2 electric buses and five 125 kW Proterra plug-in charging systems. Proterra charging systems utilize the universal J1772-CCS Type 1 charging standard, enabling buses, utility vehicles and cars to share the same chargers.

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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. Her father, a chemist, was on the team that first synthesized vitamin B1 at pharmaceutical company Merck in Charlotte, N.C. At the time, her father was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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NIST is awarding $5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio, which is operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, for a three-phase collaborative research effort involving 27 companies, universities and national laboratories. NIST is also awarding $2.4

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Charlotte, NC Aiken, SC. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Colorado State University. $5. State of Colorado State of Georgia Fort Collins, CO Boulder, CO Atlanta, GA. DOE Award ($mil.). Technology.

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