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Dual-powered locomotives debut in New Jersey

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Dual-powered locomotives—the first in the US to be powered by the overhead catenary or by twin diesel engines—recently made their debut in New Jersey. The locomotives are being manufactured by Bombardier in Kassel, Germany.

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Velodyne Lidar acquires AI software company Bluecity

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The solution is deployed across four continents with 74 installations, including systems rolled out domestically in California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, Maryland, Texas, Nevada and Michigan and internationally in Canada, China, UAE, India, Finland, Germany and Australia.

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BASF to start up new FCC catalysts testing and research lab in Germany; addressing the impact of the North American tight oil market

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BASF will start-up a new multi-million euro fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory at the hte Aktiengesellschaft (hte) facility in Heidelberg, Germany. FCC (source: EIA ).

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U.S. pace of EV adoption rivals rate of California: analysis

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states and other countries have followed suit with California’s mandate, including New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Canada, and more. as a whole follows California’s adoption rate, 25 percent of new car sales nationwide could be fully electric by 2026. A number of U.S. If the U.S. BEV market share.

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California Energy Commission selects 16 hydrogen station projects for up to $33.4M in funding

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In 2016, Toyota announced a collaboration with Air Liquide to develop and supply a phased network of 12 state-of-the-art hydrogen stations targeted for New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Shell is taking part in various initiatives to encourage the adoption of hydrogen as a transport fuel.

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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

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The MINI E Fleet trials began in 2009 in the USA (New York, Los Angeles and in the state of New Jersey), UK (Oxford / London) and Germany (Munich and Berlin). Three out of four Berlin MINI E users advocated an exclusive use of renewable energy sources for electric vehicles in the future.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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New Jersey is second only to California in adoption of solar infrastructure. Despite the announcement recently that Germany will be lowering their feed-in tariffs in January of 2012, they remain 40% of the total solar market globally while receiving less average daily solar radiation than New Jersey. [

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