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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE). The SF90 also holds the lap record for production cars on the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers , the union representing many Zenith employees, has also expressed interest in bidding, but seems not yet to have done so. “If The winds of change started blowing in the 1970s, when Zenith led the fight to preserve the U.S. presence, and only one of them is said to have made a bid.

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Proud of its roots

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Recently, DEVC Education Outreach Coordinator Dave Pence established an EV Club at the Horizons K-8 School in Boulder, where students are given hands-on experience converting the internal combustion gasoline engines of scooters, minibikes, bicycles and tricycles to electric. EV entrant at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb starting line.

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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

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In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. The battery-electric NS-999, “under the long hood”. Source: NS. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) In November of 2011, Axion commissioned a.5 25 MWh PowerCube.

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