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Lightning Hybrids and National Fleet Hybrids partner on hydraulic hybrid retrofits

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The fuel efficiency gains are achieved by regenerating the braking energy that is normally wasted to heat, and using this energy instead of (and in addition to, if needed) the internal combustion engine for acceleration. National Fleet Hybrids is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Van Builders, Inc.,

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Ford Motor Company. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot? General Motors LLC. Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority. 1,750,000. .

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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Collaborators include Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ford Motor Company. This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. process will reuse more than 50% of the facilities’ wastewater, decrease wastewater discharge, and recover significant amounts of industrial waste.