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Ineos builds first Grenadiers for US marketplace

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bound Grenadier—a Belstaff Fieldmaster grade completed in Scottish White—cleared the feature inspection department on the corporate’s manufacturing facility in Hambach, France, within the date time. making it the corporate’s greatest marketplace. The car category of British chemical vast Ineos mentioned the primary U.S.-bound

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Raleigh, N.C. Deploying Intra-hour Uncertainty Analysis Tools to ABB's GridView, $500,000 ABB Power Consulting, Raleigh, N.C.

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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation. Evatran plans to have over twenty installations as part of the Apollo Trial Program. Penetration in 2012 was only a fraction of 1% of vehicles sold.

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USDOT announces $84.9M through Lo-No program to expand advanced bus technologies

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These include hydrogen fuel cells, battery electric engines, and related infrastructure investments such as charging stations. Delaware Transit Corporation. Bloomington Public Transportation Corporation. City of Raleigh (GoRaleigh). Thirty-eight projects in 38 states will each receive funding through the program.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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Information Systems Associates; Loman CSI-Consortium/Resource; Makai Ocean engineering; Martin Control Systems; Nila; Nimbis Services; One Cycle Control; Process Systems Enterprise Inc.; Power America (Raleigh, NC). LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; of Virginia; Virginia Tech; U.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. An engineering manager known for bucking company norms, Estridge turned out to be the perfect choice to ram this project through.

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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

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Nissan also announced the introduction of an automatic transmission (AT) model with a clean-diesel engine in the Japanese market, planned for spring 2010. Raleigh, N.C. In September 2008, a new clean diesel X-TRAIL 20GT, fitted with the Alliance-developed M9R engine, was introduced in Japan. Nissan Motor Co.,

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