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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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Working with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Toyota Motor North America, the team is sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. Earlier post.).

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New “50 by 50” Commission seeks to halve US transportation energy use by 2050

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The Alliance to Save Energy has chartered a national commission of business, government and civil society leaders that will work together to develop a pathway and recommendations to reduce energy use in the US transportation sector by 50% by 2050 while meeting future mobility needs. Non-road (e.g.,

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Clean Energy wins $10M, multi-year transit deal with New Jersey Transit

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Clean Energy Fuels has won a $10-million, multi-year procurement from New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, which links major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia and provides close to 223 million passenger trips each year. In 2015, Dillon’s fleet consumed 1.1

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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The use of natural gas reduces greenhouse gas emissions six to 11 percent, according to the US Department of Energy. The 12 new CNG stations will be built by TruStar Energy in Amarillo, Texas; Chattanooga, Tenn.; El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; Columbia, S.C.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Trinidad, Colo.,

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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CNRS-AIST JRL] Wing’s progress can be charted along the increasingly dense environments in which we’ve been able to operate: from rural farms to lightly populated suburbs to more dense suburbs to large metropolitan areas like Brisbane, Australia; Helsinki, Finland; and the Dallas Fort Worth metro area in Texas.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

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At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, a tunnel of neon lights and mirrors by the artist Michael Hayden and the architect Helmut Jahn enlivens a subterranean passageway ( located after security in Terminal 1 between Concourses B and C). Not a cheese fan? The cupcake A.T.M.s,