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Best Car To Buy 2015 Nominees, Iowa Tesla Rally, 2016 Mazda CX-3 LA Debut: Today's Car News

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We kick off the week with the nominees for our 2015 Best Car To Buy award, followed by Minnesota Tesla owners'' creative workaround of an Iowa test-drive ban, and a report that the 2016 Mazda CX-3 subcompact crossover will debut at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Either way.'

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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Army for two years after he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating, he joined Collins Radio—now Collins Aerospace —headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He briefly worked at Maytag and left the commercial appliance manufacturer to join Iowa Power and Light.

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GHSA: absent traffic jams, many drivers getting more reckless

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State police in Florida and Iowa are reporting drivers going 20 to 40 miles over the posted speed limit. In Los Angeles, speeds are up by as much as 30% on some streets, prompting changes to traffic lights and pedestrian walk signals.

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Air Liquide expands CO2 liquefaction operations in California; source from ethanol plant

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The facility will serve Air Liquide customers in the central valley and the Los Angeles basin, and is slated to be operational by the end of this year. Sioux City, Iowa; Wood River, Ill.; Liquid carbon dioxide provides manufacturers the benefit of quickly freezing and preserving their products. Martinez, Calif.; Washington, Ind.;

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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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The Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) will receive funds to purchase new electric buses to improve service efficiency to the cities of Palmdale, Lancaster and Northern Los Angeles County. Iowa City Transit. Colorado Department of Transportation. 3,017,280.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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Iowa State University. Iowa State University’s goal for this project is to develop open source software tools for simulating non-equilibrium autothermal processes, to improve prospects for identifying and designing these systems. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 1,000,000.

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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IPAT , a startup company based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods—significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.

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