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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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The largest PV installation in Georgia. 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 Buses: Upgrade a planned order of buses from diesel to hybrid technology.

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Exxaro Partners With Sasol Mining in JV to Supply Potential Mafutha CTL Plant in South Africa

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The development would contribute to meeting the growing shortfall in South Africa’s domestic fuel production, most notably in the installed capacity for producing diesel and gasoline. Exxaro expects that such a mine would require an opencast truck-and-shovel extraction method, an area in which Exxaro has beneficial expertise.

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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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The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Smith Applies StormMQ CLoud-Based Message Queuing in EV Telematics System

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In fleets of conventional diesel or gasoline vehicles, telematics is used primarily as a vehicle tracking device. Smith US expects to install more than 500 Smith Newton electric trucks with Smith Telemetry by 2011, as part of a $32-million grant from the US Department of Energy (DoE). Tags: Brief.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Since our cars and trucks use almost two-thirds of the oil we buy, the quickest way to cut oil use is to free transportation from its grip. But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high-speed rail networks.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. Energy” companies are poised to receive the lion’s share of $50 million dollars to install a few more H2 filling stations. No plug, no deal!

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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. $1 million to TransPower, a clean energy company headquartered in Escondido to study the feasibility of manufacturing large electric-drive trucks in or near San Pedro by 2013. These would then be installed on-site into mass-produced truck bodies made elsewhere. million gallons of diesel fuel each year. Earlier post.)