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Solaris delivers electric school bus; Kangaroo program

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This financial support was also granted to the commune of Gr?boszów. The bus is fully adapted to transport disabled persons. Students are able to recharge their electric devices using dual USB ports placed on the side walls of the bus. There are 41 seats on board the vehicle and all of them feature safety belts.

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Celgard Seeks DOE Grant for Expansion of Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Separator Capacity

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and a leading global supplier of microporous separators used in primary and secondary (rechargeable) lithium-ion batteries, recently submitted an application for grant funding under the US Department of Energy (DOE) Electric Drive Vehicle (EDV) Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DE-FOA-0000026).

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. In work published in PLoS One in May, they detailed the Kinefox, a GPS tracker that wildlife can recharge simply by moving.

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Berkeley Lab researchers use ion bombardment to create ultrahigh energy density capacitor

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However, the most commonly used ones have low energy densities compared to other storage systems such as batteries or fuel cells, which in turn cannot discharge and recharge rapidly without sustaining damage. Applications include personal electronic devices, wearable technology, and car audio systems.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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And if we could reduce or eliminate that problem, how would that actually influence the development of mobile and wearable tech beyond just not having to recharge as often? We just recharge this small rechargeable battery indoor and outdoor, just continues to charge all the time. Fili: Yeah. We couldn’t go with two sales guys.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water. “The

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Eaton to Support Project to Develop and Deploy Medium-Duty Plug-in Hybrid Systems; Stimulus Funding to Support Largest Commercial PHEV Demonstration to Date

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million grant to develop a fully integrated, production plug-in hybrid system for Class 2 – 5 vehicles (8,501 – 19,500 lbs gross vehicle weight), and the accompanying demonstration of a fleet of 378 plug-in hybrid trucks and shuttle buses. billion in grants by the US Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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