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Phoenix Motorcars, EasyMile win grant for development of first FMVSS-compliant autonomous shuttle bus in US

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The city of Houston is set to receive the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Buy America-compliant mid-size autonomous bus in the US. Jointly developed by Phoenix Motorcars and EasyMile , the EZ Zeus self-driving bus will be deployed in real-life traffic conditions.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Stanley Whittingham.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. He worked at the university at the time of his death.

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Coulomb Technologies Installs First ChargePoint America EV Charging Station in Michigan

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Coulomb’s ChargePoint America program will provide nearly 5,000 charging stations in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Fla., The program is a strategic partnership between Coulomb and Ford, General Motors and smart USA. Sacramento, Calif., and Washington DC.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Railroad Commission of TexasTexas Propane Fleet Pilot Program.

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

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OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Supported by a $10.4

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Williams F1 Establishes Technical Center in Qatar; Initial Focus on Commercial Development of Magnetically Loaded Composite Flywheel

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The first is the development of an industrial-application large Magnetically Loaded Composite (MLC) flywheel—essentially a wholly composite flywheel which integrates the magnets of the electric motor into the composite. MLC Flywheel Evaluation for Transportation by University of Texas. WHP flywheel unit. Click to enlarge.

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