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California Energy Commission awards >$6M for EV charging, H2 fueling and V2G

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The investments include: Electric vehicle charging: Ten grants totaling more than $3.5 million contract to the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will help fund demonstration of an all-electric, heavy duty, non-tactical vehicle-to-grid (V2G) fleet at Moffett Field near San Jose.

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Toyota to provide financial assistance to FirstElement for construction of H2 refueling network in California

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FE) to support the long-term operation and maintenance expenses of new hydrogen refueling stations in California. Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) and its affiliate Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC) have entered into a group of financial agreements with FirstElement Fuel Inc. (FE) Earlier post.) Earlier post.) —Bob Carter.

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Coulomb Technologies to Provide 4,600 Free Home and Public Charging Stations Through ChargePoint America Program

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the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, California; Redmond, Wash.; The $37-million ChargePoint America program is made possible by a $15-million grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Transportation Electrification Initiative administered by the Department of Energy. Sacramento, Calif.;

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Sprout at Plug-in 2010

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million grant from the Wythe County (Virginia) Joint Industrial Development Authority to conduct more research and testing on the system. Among those exhibiting were: Aerovironment. Evatran, a subsidiary of MTC Transformers, has developed a Level 2 (7.7 The company recently received a $1.25-million

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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The California Energy Commission has approved eight grants that leverage more than $9.6 Project partners will provide $1,000,000 to match the state grant. 500,000 to the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System to help it speed the refueling of its growing fleet of compressed natural gas-powered buses.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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million) grant from the UK government, and $21.4 My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. His new company, ZeroAvia, is developing an aircraft powertrain energized by hydrogen fuel cells.