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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Artificial Intelligence-Engine for Optimizing Integrated Service in Mixed Fleet Transit Operations. AOI 13: Alternative Fuel Proof-of-Concept in New Communities and Fleets. Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition. Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition. Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority. Clean Fuels Ohio.

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Denver RTD orders 17 New Flyer electric buses

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RTD provides transportation in the Denver metro area, delivering nearly 33 million annual bus rides on 124 routes. The contract marks New Flyer’s first battery-electric bus order from RTD. New Flyer’s Xcelsior CHARGE NG battery-electric buses provide up to 525 kWh of power and 250 miles of range on a single charge.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Senate ceased funding the development of a supersonic airliner in 1971.

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Summer Update

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The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition.

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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Reductions in fleet NH 3 emissions are slow or insignificant in US cities in recent years due to modest reduction in NH 3 emissions from new vehicles and increasing emissions from older vehicles (though with their TWCs still active). ppbv/ppmv, 15% uncertainty) despite differences in fleet composition, climate, and fuel composition.

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V2G Test Drive

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Xcel Energy announces six-month test drive of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles DENVER - Six plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEVs ) will be on the road by the end of 2007 as part of a demonstration test of vehicle-to-grid ( V2G ) technology by Xcel Energy. The remaining three PHEVs will be used in the company’s fleet.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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The team also compared the effects of these local planning efforts to the reduction in emissions that would occur under the Obama administration’s plan to increase the fuel efficiency of the automobile fleet to 54.5 a rapid electrification of the automobile fleet. miles per gallon by the year 2027.