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IC Bus fulfills largest propane bus order to date

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Purpose-built for the school bus industry, the CE Series with PSI propane engine is designed to provide diesel-like performance with higher torque at lower engine speeds. The high torque-low speed design greatly benefits stop-and-start applications to allow immediate acceleration after stops and greater hill climbing capability.

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Rivian expands testing of its electric Amazon delivery vans to Michigan

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The engineer told Automotive News that Amazon delivery vans undergoing testing in Detroit were assembled at Rivian’s engineering and design center in Plymouth, Michigan. Amazon’s Rivian delivery van has been spotted in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Tulsa.

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IC Bus adds purpose-built propane school bus offering; PSI 8.8-liter propane engine and Allison transmission

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Purpose-built for the school bus industry, the CE Series with PSI propane engine is designed to provide diesel-like performance with higher torque at lower engine speeds. bus assembly plant in Tulsa, Okla. liter engine. Click to enlarge. liter engine is engineered to deliver the highest torque at the lowest speed. 8-11 November.

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ARPA-E awarding $30M to 12 hybrid solar projects; conversion and storage

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This design can provide a low-cost way to utilize the diffuse portion of the solar spectrum. This double-mirror design is optimized to capture as much of the energy in sunlight as possible. The dramatic change in temperature and pressure is necessitated by an innovative design that prevents thermal losses across the turbine.

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USDOT announces $84.9M through Lo-No program to expand advanced bus technologies

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Lextran will receive funds toward the design and construction of a covered storage area and the incremental cost of additional zero emission vehicles. Metro Transit will receive funds for the design and construction of indoor overhead quick chargers as well as a solar power supply and a battery storage system. Metro Transit.

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Team at Saudi Aramco successfully field tests downhole drilling microchip system

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A team at Saudi Aramco’s EXPEC Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC), in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, recently achieved the first major field test milestone of its four-year project to develop the industry’s first downhole drilling microchip.

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

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Trips: Electric and shared-use vehicles are best designed to fill shorter travel needs in more heavily trafficked areas. INRIX then looked at the percentage of a city’s intra-city trips, 10 miles or less, and combined these two metrics to score each city out of a possible 100 points. New Orleans. Albuquerque.

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