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Michigan awards $285K to new mobility initiatives that improve roadway safety and sustainability, and customer service

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The technology, which uses lidar sensors and artificial intelligence (AI), will enable the city to monitor key safety metrics 24/7—including traffic conflicts, speeding and red-light runners—and proactively improve the safety of vulnerable road users. The campus-wide study will evaluate the effectiveness of GEKOT’s solutions.

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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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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. Ultra-light Zero Emissions Buses: Replaces two of Flint MTA diesel buses with advanced all-electric Zero-Emissions GTB-40 buses from Fisher Coachworks.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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Now they’re understanding it with a gusto all the way from the halls of power in Washington DC to corporate offices across the country. Charged : For example, one of your customers has a site where they’re not allowed to do any digging because of hazardous waste. I would never have thought of that. So that’s fleet. This is not theory.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49

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