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Nissan Dealership Handed Over 400 Charges

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This time, some former employees at a Nissan dealer in North Carolina are on the hook for more than 400 charges. It was the North Carolina DMV that seems to have blown the cover off the place, taking it upon themselves to rightly look into alleged shady activity at Nissan of Shelby.

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South Carolina Vehicle Conversion Centers Roll Out First Round of Propane Autogas Vehicles

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Greenville County and Light’N’Up are two of nine conversion centers participating in the project. The conversion centers are trained and certified by Alliance AutoGas, a national network that provides fleets with a turnkey propane Autogas vehicle conversion and fueling solution.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. Because the material can be heated within a relatively narrow temperature range, the non-volatile component (i.e., Earlier post.).

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EV News keeps on coming

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A truck from Flux Hybrids out to do a conversion. EV conversions Back to the past in NC Flux Hybrids, a North Carolina start-up, converts ICE cars to electric by simply adding electric power to the existing power range. Both Kia and Hyundai unveiled large SUV concept vehicles with noteworthy features at the show.

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SRI wins $925,000 DOE award to liquefy biomass for production of transportation fuels

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The process will convert biomass to stabilized bio-oils that can be directly blended with hydrotreater and cracker input streams in a petroleum refinery for production of gasoline and diesel range hydrocarbons. In addition, it has more than three decades of experience in the conversion of syngas to liquids and related technologies.

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DOE to award up to $36M to support small-scale projects for drop-in biofuels and bioproducts

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The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Genomatica, Inc. (up

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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cell that significantly improves the light-to-energy conversion efficiency of conventional cells.

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