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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The new Fisher buses will provide more than triple the equivalent fuel economy in all-electric mode and reduce CO2 emissions due to the extensive use of lightweight materials and the large capacity battery system. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Kahn Current job: Chairman, CEO, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) Date of birth: 23 December 1938 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Family: Patrice Ann Lyons, his wife Education: BEE 1960, City College of New York ; M.A. 1962 and Ph.D. 1962 and Ph.D.

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ABB charges into the future with Formula E

Charged EVs

Charged attended the New York City E-Prix in July, and spoke with several execs from EV infrastructure powerhouse ABB. Now, the general consensus seems to be that having the [AC-to-DC] conversion happen off-board lightens the bus, and makes room for a bigger battery. We have bus companies that want the 24-kilowatt.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. and New York City.

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

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. and Toronto, Ont.,

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Tata Takes On Air

Plug In Partners

The compressed air technology is basically just a way of storing electrical energy without the need for costly, heavy, and occasionally toxic batteries. So far the possibilities are very limited although we may be able to report soon on some changes in the market for conversion of existing hybrids to plug-ins.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.