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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Enovix Corporation. Exelon Corporation. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec Corporation). Michigan Technological University. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). West Virginia University Research Corporation. Group14 Technologies Inc. Dream Team Co LLC.

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DOE Investing Up to $78M Investment in Two Consortia Targeting Algae-Based and Biomass-Based Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuels and Infrastructure; $1.6M for Ethanol Blends Fueling Infrastructure

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Led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO), NAABB will develop a systems approach for sustainable commercialization of algal biofuel (such as renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) and bioproducts. National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB) ($44 million).

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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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Michigan Department of Transportation. The Michigan Department of Transportation will receive funds to replace aging diesel buses with zero-emission electric buses and related charging station infrastructure, and provide maintenance and first responder training for the new technology. New Jersey Transit Corporation. 793,420.

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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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Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Large automakers based in Michigan, including GM, Chrysler, and Ford, will receive a total of more than $400 million to manufacture thousands of advanced hybrid and electric vehicles as well as batteries and electric drive components. Technology.

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

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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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ARPA-E selects 33 projects for $66M in awards; advanced biocatalysts for gas-to-liquids and lightweight metals

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University of Michigan. The University of Michigan will create a biological approach to activate methane, which is the first step in producing a liquid fuel from natural gas. Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET). If successful, LBNL’s process will enable low-cost, energy-efficient fuel production from natural gas.

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