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Capstone Receives order for 34 microturbines for Denver RTD electric bus fleet

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Corporation has received an order for thirty-four liquid fuel C30 microturbines for use in DesignLine’s Eco Saver IV range extended electric buses. The buses are expected to be delivered to Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) later this year. The new Denver RTD buses will operate on the 16 th Street Mall in downtown Denver.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Enovix Corporation. Exelon Corporation. General Motors LLC. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec Corporation). Ford Motor Company. General Motors LLC. Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes.

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Auto retail tech startup Stella Automobile AI hires unutilized CEO

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His hiring, efficient Would possibly 26 and introduced Monday, comes then the corporate in early Would possibly introduced it had closed a seed spherical of financing. Energy and was once a knowledge era supervisor at Ford Motor Co., ” Boudett is staying on as corporate chair. Stella Automobile AI, a Tampa, Fla.,

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

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Lee Iacocca 's Chrysler Corporation sold K-Cars in the United States for the 1981 through 1989 model years, saving itself from near-certain bankruptcy in the process. For the 1980s, GM created the X-Cars , Ford offered Fox sedans and American Motors had the Concord. Look at that interior!

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

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I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. Peugeot stuck it out until 1991 , when the last new 405s hit American streets.

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

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Both rely on the principle of stator motor design and magnetic induction to create propulsive physical forces. Maglev 2000 of Florida Corporation to establish the feasibility of a superconducting electrodynamics suspension (repulsive force) technology. Two types of propulsions systems are employed using magnetic technologies.

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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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Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Solar Panel Installations at DTC facilities: Retrofits Delaware Transit Corporation facilities with solar panels, which will generate cost savings through fossil fuel energy reductions.

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