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Los Angeles Harbor Commission Launches 2009 Alternative Fuel Truck Incentive Program with $44.2M

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The Los Angeles Harbor Commission recently approved up to $44.2 million in Port funding toward the 2009 Clean Truck Incentive Program at the Port of Los Angeles. Within the next 30 days, the Port will publish program guidelines and will begin accepting letters of intent.

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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The problem affects cities in the United States as well: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas and Milwaukee were the top five cities in the US with the highest percentage of pediatric asthma cases linked to polluted air. —Pattanun Achakulwisut, PhD, lead author of the paper and a postdoc at Milken Institute SPH.

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NREL publishes online collection of case studies in EV deployment

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NREL developed the online resource for DOE’s Clean Cities initiative, which works to reduce petroleum consumption in transportation. The newly compiled information is housed on Clean Cities’ Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (AFDC) at www.afdc.energy.gov/plugin_case_studies.

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California ARB Awarding $200M to Reduce Diesel Emissions from Trucks, Locomotives, Harborcraft

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The California Air Resources Board awarded $200 million in Proposition 1B funds to cut harmful emissions from heavy-duty trucks and other sources in the state’s four busiest trade corridors to clean up air pollution and protect community health. The trade corridors to receive funding are: $110 million for Los Angeles/Inland Empire; $55.5

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Plug-in readiness reports show wide difference between California regions

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Funding comes from DOE’s Clean Cities Program, designed to assist the development of alternative fuel technologies, leading to decreased greenhouse gas emissions and reduced petroleum use in the transportation sector. This is in addition to $2,500 from the statewide Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.

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Alabama will be ‘first to mass produce green cars’ says HK Motors

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Los Angeles-based start-up, Hybrid Kinetic Motors (HK Motors) has announced plans to construct a new green-vehicle manufacturing plant in Baldwin County, Alabama in the US. By utilizing natural gas, HK Motors says it is tapping into an abundant, exceptionally clean, and surprisingly affordable resource.

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Acura unveils all-new electrified ARX-06 race car

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Critical to the projects was a clean sheet hybrid powertrain control system, brake-by-wire and vehicle dynamics control system—all written in-house at HPD. They also coded the new car into HPD’s static and dynamic Driver in the Loop simulators to begin development of the car’s vehicle dynamics and vehicle dynamic control systems.

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