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Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

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Last April, QCD ordered its first batch of 14 leased Volvo VNR Electric trucks with funding support from a grant awarded to Volvo Financial Services from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee’s (MSRC) Inland Port Program. Located in the St.

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NSF awards UIC $1.44M to discover new 2D materials for better batteries

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The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to discover new 2D materials that can be used to manufacture better and cheaper batteries. During the four year grant cycle, Salehi-Khojin and Klie will be assisted by researchers at Washington University of St.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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He authored and edited many technical manuals and was granted several U.S. He enjoyed fishing, studying birds, and collecting limericks, and he volunteered at St. He also was an electrical engineering professor at Illinois Tech , in Chicago. Louis, Axelrod joined the U.S.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) have awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2 The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. sinensis x M.