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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 US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Metropolitan Energy Information Center’s Midwest Region Alternative Fuels Project.

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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. Energy efficiency of passenger transportation modes. The plan notes that rail is already among the cleanest and most energy-efficient of the passenger transportation modes. Source: DOT. Click to enlarge.

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

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If you have a lighter vehicle, it has more capacity, more energy efficiency, because you’re not driving dead weight mass around. metric tons [in battery weight] from a bus, we saved a fleet operator $24 million in energy costs. That’s at today’s energy prices. Grant Transit, which is in Moses Lake, Washington.