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St. Louis Launches SiLVERS EV Shuttle Service for Seniors

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A groundbreaking concept, the SiLVERS program accomplishes multiple goals. For one, it demonstrates the cost benefits of EV fleets for social service agencies and how that can translate to improved quality of service.

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

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New Two-Cylinder Prototype Demonstration and Concept Design of a Next Generation Class 3-6 Opposed Piston Engine. AOI 13: Alternative Fuel Proof-of-Concept in New Communities and Fleets. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). A New Approach for Increasing Efficiency of Agricultural Tractors and Implements.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Louis , Mo. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. San Jose, Calif.

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What Is Hyperloop? And What Does It Offer?

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Several companies are striving to develop the concept into a viable commercial solution. Despite the fact that the basic concept of hyperloop technology has been known for many years, it is still in development. Potential routes include New York-Washington DC, Pune-Mumbai, Kansas City-St. Hyperloops: When Can We Hope On One?

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Bladon Jets, SR Drives and Jaguar Land Rover Win Funding for Gas Turbine Electric Vehicle Project

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Both companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Emerson Electric Co of St Louis, Missouri—the world’s largest manufacturer of electric motors. ETVM) completed a proof-of-concept test of its Range-Extended Electric Vehicle (REEV) architecture using a gas microturbine for the range-extending generator. Earlier post.).

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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