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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. Port Authority of Allegheny County: A $1,104,000 grant to replace two diesel transit buses with two new battery electric buses and install two charging stations. Beaver County.

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CMU demo’ing Autonomous SRX in Washington this week

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The car was brought to Washington at the request of Congressman Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania, who participated in a 33-mile drive in the autonomous vehicle between a Pittsburgh suburb and the city’s airport last September. radar and LIDAR, or radar and camera). (a) b) Visualization of LIDAR measurement. Source: Cho et al.

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

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The Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA), the transit provider in Central Massachusetts, will receive funding to purchase and install a Proterra charging station for its existing fleet of zero-emission battery-electric buses. The two agencies serve Berks and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania. 54,469,249.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

I continue to be an aspiring policy wonk on the solar financing issue known around the state as AB 811 financing, since we need it if we’re going to make it possible for people to install solar right now, instead of waiting till electric rates triple and the greenhouse gas situation makes it mandatory.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Is 381 miles by the shortest route and 420 miles if I take the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. The Pennsylvania State University and partner Sentech Corporation will develop catalyst-coated titanium dioxide nanotube membranes to use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane and other hydrocarbon fuels. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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