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New Flyer to start development of first 60' fuel cell hybrid bus in North America; introduces 40' battery-electric bus

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New Flyer’s Xcelsior Electric is a 40'' battery electric bus powered by a 100-300 kWh battery pack (scaled to customer need) that can be charged at stops via an Eaton pantograph-based system. and Siemens on the bus that will be operated by Connecticut Transit (CTTransit) for 22 months of in-revenue-service operations.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin). (Watertown, Massachusetts). Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio). Praj Industries Ltd. Pune, India). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Survalent Technology Inc.