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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Project partners are MidAmerican Energy and Proterra. These vehicles will be the first electric transit buses deployed in Iowa. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Martha's Vineyard Transit Authority will receive funds to purchase all-electric transit buses and an energy storage system. 1,450,000.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. Iowa State University. Washington University in St.

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