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PHEV Day 161 - Friday, 21 March 2009. From Vicksburg, MS to the 46th State Capitol - Little Rock, Arkansas

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Hwy 65 parallels somewhat in-land the Mississippi and goes over the flat, broad and green of first Louisiana into the flat, broad and green of Arkansas. The "Spirit" after a night of recharging at Motel 6 had these readings: 78.7MPG for 15 miles; 61.7 Traffic was light, but mainly slight some 200 miles! It was leisure travel!

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

Green Car Congress

The contract is also a milestone in NS’ quest for a battery/hybrid locomotive, which reaches back a number of years to the Green Goat effort. That last feature—the ability to self-regulate in large-string configurations—is especially valuable in the NS-999 application, Granville told Green Car Congress. Earlier post.).

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

Green Car Congress

Electric Power Research Institute (Drexel University, University of Memphis, Evapco, WorleyParsons, and Maulbetsch Consulting). The TES system will utilize phase change materials that operate over a range of temperatures, and the system will recharge at night by an asynchronous air-cooled enhanced heat exchanger.

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