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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

Green Car Congress

General Motors Corporation. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. Deploy up to 150 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, including 130 Ford Escape PHEVs and 20 Ford E450 Van PHEVs. Rolla, MO Warrensburg, MO Linn, MO St.

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

Cars That Think

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. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. and Toronto, Ont., Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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