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Ford turns its attentions to: school buses?

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One of the largest car manufacturers in the world is working on school buses – but that’s exactly what has happened. Ford Motor Company has teamed with the Georgia Institute of Technology on the US’s first conversion of a traditional school bus into a hydraulic hybrid [.]. It doesn’t seem like a natural fit, does it?

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Biofuels research awarded millions in funding

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The grants come from the US Departments of Energy and Agriculture under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006. The University of Georgia, Athens, benefits again from the funding, this time with $705,000 for improving alfalfa as a biofuel feedstock.

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