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IBM Global Trucking Study Finds Fuel Efficiency, High-Tech Features More Important than Brand Name

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The study—unveiled at last week’s CALSTART Hybrid Truck Users Forum National Conference—comprises interviews with 91 executives in 13 countries, representing the entire truck value chain. Tags: Fleets Heavy-duty Hybrids Telematics. Truck 2020: Overcoming turbulent times for sustainable prosperity.

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

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Almost half of the EcoCAR teams chose to design EREVs, including Ohio State, University of Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University, Penn State and University of Victoria. Tags: Conferences and other events Hybrids Plug-ins.

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GM and ABB to Develop Projects for Re-Use of Volt Battery Packs

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Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins Smart Grid. Back-up Power Supplies for Communities: Volt battery systems can store electricity that can be used by communities during power outages caused by storms or other natural disasters.

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ECP Developing Plasma-Assisted Compact Fischer-Tropsch Gas-to-Liquids System

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Although plasma reactors can be used directly for gasification for the production of clean syngas—and ECP has developed its own such plasma gasification system, SynGen—for this application ECP is suggesting a different approach assisted by its GlidArc low-tech plasma: Gasification of any feed into as-dirty-as-possible producer gas.

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American Le Mans Series Introduces Green Dream Team

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These will include Green Tech Talks to fans at track, promotional events and media messaging outlets such as in-broadcast telecasts, blogs, Twitter and various website initiatives. Tags: Brief. Green Racing does not mean boring. Paul Drayson. It operates a nine-race schedule in top markets throughout North America.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. The cheapest human-sized humanoids I’m aware of are in the $150K range (a long way from the olden days of $1M price tags)… But I’ll believe the price when I can actually buy one.

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U.S. Battery Makers Power Up

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battery manufacturers are taking steps to raise the industry’s profile, a move that backers hope will speed commercialization of high-tech, American-made car batteries. The centers could carry a total price tag of between $1 billion and $2 billion over the next five years. Tags: EV News Production News Inside Track.

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