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MIT study concludes V2G-enabled electric commercial trucks could offer lower total operating cost than conventional diesel fleet

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Staples currently has 53 all-electric trucks, manufactured by Missouri-based Smith Electric Vehicles, in use in several American cities. Jarrod Goentzel, director of the Renewable Energy Delivery Project at CTL and one of four co-authors of the new study notes, “ almost all these costs scale down to the individual vehicle.”

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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

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Two of the teams, University of Waterloo and Missouri University of Science and Technology, designed a Fuel Cell Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle which uses an onboard hydrogen fuel cell to either propel the vehicle or recharge a battery pack. Renewable fuels (when a liquid fuel is required). Plug-in capability. Powertrain diversity.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia. The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) have awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2 Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. Here, too, electricity is key. In a similar vein, batteries will be a competitive advantage for the auto-makers of the future.

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