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DOT to award $42M to New York, Wyoming and Tampa to pilot connected vehicle technologies

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New York City will received up to $20 million to install Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) technology in up to 10,000 city-owned vehicles including cars, buses, and limousines that frequently travel in Midtown Manhattan, as well as Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) technology throughout Midtown. —Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

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New fleet customers for XL Hybrid’s plug-in hybrid upfit for Ford F-150 pickups

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.; Southern California Edison (SCE); and Tampa Electric (TECO). They join the previously announced customers, NV Energy, DTE Energy, San Diego Gas & Electric Company—which recently signed a memorandum of understanding to purchase 110 units—Liberty Utilities, and Hawaiian Electric Company.

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Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway

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The Tampa Bay Times reports that House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) said: I think it’s very similar to offshore drilling. And state Senator Jay Collins (R-Tampa) had this to say about the impending wind turbine ban: I think there are many causes [to climate change] and I think our weather patterns are cyclic. …

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