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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Regents of University of Minnesota. Field Demonstration of a Near-Zero, Tier 5 compliant, Natural Gas Hybrid Line-Haul Locomotive. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). Regents of the University of Minnesota. AOI 06a: Research to Transform the Efficiency of Off-Road Vehicles. Cummins Inc. 299,899.

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FTA awarding $55M to 10 projects deploying battery-electric and fuel-cell buses

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Sunline Transit Agency, in partnership with the Southern California Association of Governments, will receive funding to build and deploy five hydrogen electric hybrid fuel cell buses. DTA provides approximately 3 million rides per year throughout St. Louis County in northeast Minnesota. SARTA provides more than 2.7

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Understand and control ceramic, metallic, hybrid, and nanoscale actinide materials to lay the scientific foundation for advanced nuclear energy systems. University of Minnesota. Washington University, St. University of Notre Dame. Materials Science of Actinides (MSA). Harvard University.

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