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Electric Nation is providing access to clean and affordable transportation for underserved tribal communities

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Distributed energy resources (DERs) were essential to support chargers and offset the cost of each station. Cost-sharing among the project partners supports the remaining costs not covered by the federal grant. External funding has supported the creation and ongoing growth of this project.

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'Open The Floodgates': Why Tesla's $243 Million Autopilot Crash Verdict Is Such A Big Deal

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New diamine-appended MOFs can capture CO2 for half or less of the energy cost of current materials

Green Car Congress

Because MOFs are solid, the process also saves the energy costs of heating the water in which amines are dissolved. Last summer, Long co-founded a startup, Mosaic Materials, to use the new technology to reduce the cost of chemical separations, with plans in the works for a pilot study of CO 2 separation from power plant emissions.

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New yeast engineered by BESC, Mascoma could accelerate production of cellulosic ethanol

Green Car Congress

The results were presented at the 31 st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop this week in Minneapolis. Gilna noted that this success and continued efforts through BESC could go a long way toward reducing the cost of ethanol and growing the number of commercial-level ethanol production plants. —BESC Director Paul Gilna.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric. Minneapolis-St.

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

Cars That Think

“That will lower the overall torque that you can produce with the motor because the torque is primarily due to that flux linkage between the motor poles in the rotor and the stator,” says Frank Johnson , another veteran of the GE research team on dual-phase materials, and currently chief technical officer of Niron Magnetics in Minneapolis.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.