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American Honda Motor Co. Begins Use and Testing of Class 8 Hybrid Truck

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The hybrid truck will be utilized along two routes—a hilly route in Tennessee and a relatively flat one in Georgia—in order to evaluate the truck’s fuel economy under various driving conditions. The hybrid truck uses a parallel diesel-electric hybrid system developed by Eaton Corporation.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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Eaton Corporation, DC Wide Bandgap Static Circuit Breaker – $3,760,000. Eaton will develop a silicon carbide-based direct-current circuit breaker design that boosts efficiency and can scale up or down medium voltage application requirements. Eaton Corporation, Ultra-Efficient Intelligent MVDC Hybrid Circuit Breaker – $4,413,913.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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General Motors Corporation. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation. State of Colorado State of Georgia Fort Collins, CO Boulder, CO Atlanta, GA. Louis Science Center; Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEV-US); Kokam America Inc. Brownstown, MI. Production of high-volume battery packs for the GM Volt.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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Eaton Corporation. Eaton Corporation and its project team will develop and validate a wireless-power-based computer server supply that enables distribution of medium voltage (AC or DC) throughout a data center and converts it to the 48 VDC used by computer servers. Georgia Institute of Technology. 1,988,270.

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