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Mn/DOT assessing potential for mileage-based user fee to replace fuel tax; Battelle conducting technology assessment

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The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) will recruit 500 people from Wright and Hennepin counties to take part in research to test technology that could someday be used to collect a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) in lieu of a gasoline tax. —Cory Johnson, project manager.

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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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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. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. Similarly, GE sold off GE Capital for $26 billion after the 2008 finance and banking collapse, which is a far cry from a decade earlier, when it was worth ten times that.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Gillian Flaccus/AP Renters in the United States are now spending 30 percent of their income on rent, leaving little to finance the purchase of a vehicle. She uses an extension cord that plugs into a standard electrical outlet, since DeWhitt and her partner aren’t allowed to use the rental home’s garage.

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FedEx and VW EV Plans, Second GM Battery Factory – EV Week in Review: Mar 2 – Mar 8

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Volkswagen said it plans to spend about 16 billion euros ($19 billion) for investment in the future trends such as “e-mobility, hybridization and digitalization” by 2025. ” – March 7, Business Insider via Yahoo Finance. The automaker also plans to make autonomous driving features widely available by 2030. Volkswagen ID.4

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Auction revenues may be used for the public good by allocating the allowance value to: households as dividends; financing investments and other public expenditures; and. Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures.

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