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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. New vehicles to be deployed include 55 CNG vehicles, 363 propane vehicles, 89 hybrid electric vehicles, and 56 neighborhood electric vehicles. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that.

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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

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By late summer, the Federal Railroad Administration will begin awarding the first round of grants. According to a 2006 study cited by the Administration, implementation of pending plans for the federally designated HSR corridors could result in an annual reduction of 6 billion pounds of CO 2 (2.7 Vision for High-Speed Rail in America.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

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It’s designed to be easily maintainable, swappable. Another nice thing about our multi-pad modular design: if there is an issue on the ground or on the vehicle side, the rest of those systems will keep operating, because they are independent systems end-to-end, all the way through to the power electronics.