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Air Products to build hydrogen fueling station for Flint, Michigan Mass Transportation Authority

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Air Products has signed a contract with Sorensen Gross Construction Services to build a hydrogen fueling station in Flint, Michigan to fuel a hydrogen fuel cell bus owned by Flint’s Mass Transportation Authority (MTA). The station, which will be part of the MTA’s alternative fuels test program, is to be onstream in April 2012.

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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

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Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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Allison Transmission acquires Vantage Power and AxleTech’s electric vehicle systems division

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Vantage Power is an award-winning London-based technology company specializing in developing electrified propulsion and connected vehicle technologies for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers. The EV systems division is located at AxleTech’s headquarters in Troy, Michigan.

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Daimler Trucks & Buses and CATL enter global Li-ion battery cell modules supply agreement for electric trucks

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Battery pack assembly will be carried out by Daimler Trucks & Buses at its Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant in Germany and its Detroit (Michigan) plant in the US. Around 150 units of the light-duty FUSO eCanter are already in customer operation in cities around the globe such as New York City, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon.

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Woven Planet to acquire CARMERA; boost to Woven alpha's automated mapping platform (AMP) initiative

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CARMERA will join Woven Planet Group as a wholly-owned subsidiary, expanding the company’s footprint beyond its Tokyo headquarters by adding New York and Seattle offices to its planned offices in Silicon Valley and London. and CARMERA in Tokyo, Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, laid the groundwork for this deal.

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BAE Systems delivers 7,000th series hybrid-electric system for buses

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Today BAE Systems has fully-electric buses in operation in cities such as Palm Springs, California; Flint, Michigan; Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; and Paris, France.

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Ford forms new Smart Mobility subsidiary to develop and to invest in mobility services

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The new subsidiary will have operations in Palo Alto, California, and Dearborn, Michigan. Ford says that this year it will have the largest test fleet of autonomous vehicles of any automaker, with vehicles on the road in California, Arizona and Michigan. Earlier post.) Autonomous vehicles. Earlier post.)

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