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BP plans charging hubs for ride-hailing EVs, first near LAX

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The first of these hubs will be built near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in collaboration with rental-car firm Hertz, and will be funded in part by a $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), BP said in a press.

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Proterra beats out BYD for Mineta San José International Airport electric bus contract; 10 Proterra electric buses to be in service by late 2018

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Mineta San José International Airport (SJC). Scheduled to be placed in service in late 2018, the buses will be designed and built in California at Proterra’s Los Angeles County manufacturing facility. Funded in part by a $3.8-million Funded in part by a $3.8-million

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Pasha, Port of LA and California ARB partner on $26.6M Green Omni Terminal demo project; emerging zero and near-zero emission tech

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and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million Pasha Stevedoring and Terminals L.P.

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Transient Plasma Systems says advances are bringing plasma ignition technology closer to commercialization

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Traditional ignition systems when used to enhance internal combustion engine (ICE) efficiency and lower emissions are handicapped with high energy consumption and poor durability leading to an unattractive cost of ownership. Kairos Ventures is the Los Angeles venture capital firm funding TPS. TPS ignition system.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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EPICS in IEEE provided a US $10,000 grant in July 2022 to deploy the systems. Warudkar is an associate aeroelasticity engineer at Virgin Galactic , in Los Angeles. The project started as part of the EPICS students’ coursework, but it has grown into something more. The project “didn’t just fall in our laps,” he says.

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Why These Members Donate to the IEEE Foundation

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The Foundation’s support is made possible, in part, by the gifts from its generous donors. While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., The fund also supports the creation of a chapter grant program and chapter coaching program.

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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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The new grantspart of DOE’s Computational Materials Sciences (CMS) program launched in 2015 as part of the US Materials Genome Initiative—reflect the enormous recent growth in computing power and the increasing capability of high-performance computers to model and simulate the behavior of matter at the atomic and molecular scales.

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