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Charlotte Douglas International Airport to buy 5 Proterra electric buses; 9th airport

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Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) has agreed to purchase five 35-foot Proterra Catalyst E2 electric buses and five 125 kW Proterra plug-in charging systems. Kennedy International Airport (JFK); Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR); LaGuardia Airport (LGA); Sacramento International Airport (SMF); Silicon Valley’s Norman Y.

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Gas Cars Parked In One Electric-Car Spot Earn Raleigh $27,000 A Year

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It''s known as "ICE-ing," referring to cars with internal combustion engines parking where they shouldn''t. But the problem has proved to be lucrative for Raleigh, North Carolina. The problem of gasoline cars parking in spaces reserved for plug-in electric cars to recharge at is nothing new. DON''T MISS: Been ICEd?

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Coulomb Technologies releases OpenCharge Protocol for EV charging equipment

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Coulomb is also offering the OpenCharge Protocol as an international standard for EVSE-to-charging network communication. A demonstration will be shown at the Plug-In 2011 conference and exhibition in the Coulomb Technologies booth #121, 18 – 20 July in Raleigh, NC.

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

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Raleigh, N.C. Fabrication and Testing of Solid-solution Strengthened Corrosion Resistant Alloys For Service in Molten Fluoride Environments, $625,000 Haynes International, Kokomo, Ind. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Enabling interoperability for PV inverter controllers, $149,995 Triangle Microworks Inc., Niskayuna, N.Y.

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VinFast pushes forward regardless of early setbacks

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Nguyen spends maximum of her occasion in Raleigh, N.C., billion from Vuong and Vingroup, is wanted for the automaker’s growth into North The united states and Europe because it bets on international markets for speedy enlargement. marketplace, and 800 on the market in Canada. The investment, together with as much as $2.5

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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Pike notes that the market for wireless plug-in vehicle charging is necessarily tied to the widespread deployment of PEVs, but also notes that the degree to which PEVs will compete with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles is not certain. Penetration in 2012 was only a fraction of 1% of vehicles sold.

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DOE announces EcoCAR 2; focus on electric drive technology

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At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate. EcoCar 2 Malibu. Click to enlarge.