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US Refiner Converting Fleet to Hybrids and Diesels

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has launched a new initiative to convert its 170-vehicle fleet to hybrid and clean diesel vehicles. Alon also operates more than 300 convenience stores primarily in West Texas and New Mexico substantially under the 7-Eleven and FINA brand names and supplies motor fuels to these stores primarily from its Big Spring refinery.

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NASA awarding $45M to green rocket propellant technology demonstration mission

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NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., Green propellants include liquid, solid, mono- or bi-propellants, and hybrids that offer safer handling conditions and lower environmental impact than current fuels.

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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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Louis region will receive funds to purchase new electric buses to replace aging diesel buses and related charging infrastructure. The City of Jackson, MS will receive funds to purchase new diesel electric hybrid buses to replace aging diesel buses that have reached their useful life expectancy. New Jersey Transit Corporation.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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The project will include 13 different technologies from the substation to the customer, including distribution automation and control, smart meters and appliances, home area networks, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, energy and battery storage, and renewable generation sources. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA).

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NAMII awarding $9M to 15 additive manufacturing projects

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CDI Corporation; Honeywell Aerospace; Pan Computing LLC; Penn State University; United Technologies Research Center; and the University of Louisville). Concurrent Technologies Corporation; General Electric; and Robert C. University of Texas - El Paso (Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman Corporation; rp+m, Inc.; Byrd Institute).

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. GE Global Research (Niskayuna, New York).

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. See How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity. So far, most start as hybrids. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"

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