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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

Green Car Congress

Eligible projects include the purchase or lease of buses powered by modern, efficient technologies. These include hydrogen fuel cells, battery electric engines, and related infrastructure investments such as charging stations. Forty-one projects in 40 states and the District of Columbia will receive funding through the program.

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

Cars That Think

The course will start in Omaha and end four days later in Manteo, N.C., The game was developed by engineer Allan Alcorn and originally assigned to him as a test after he was hired, before he began working on actual projects. Both fixed-wing craft and helicopters are eligible. near the site of the Wright brothers’ first flight.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. I constructed the curriculum with another professor in the engineering school,” he said. The students were primarily in electrical or mechanical engineering. Sound familiar?”

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Michael purchased a new white Tesla Roadster with the intention of making a cross-country trip that would be powered only by homegrown American electrons. Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. This time it would be with a Tesla Motors Roadster!

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The car came straight to Omaha from the Detroit auto show. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota.

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