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DOE to award up to $2.5M to deploy fuel-cell-powered baggage tow tractors at commercial airports

Green Car Congress

million this year to demonstrate and to deploy fuel-cell-electric baggage tow tractors (BTT) at major US commercial airports. The target market is commercial airports and air freight distribution centers used by passenger airlines and air freight industries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $2.5

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Mn/DOT assessing potential for mileage-based user fee to replace fuel tax; Battelle conducting technology assessment

Green Car Congress

These funding sources support construction and maintenance of the highway system. We are researching alternative financing methods today that could be used 10 or 20 years from now when the number of fuel efficient and hybrid cars increase and no longer produce enough revenue from a gas tax to build and repair roads.

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