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

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston will receive funding to develop and deploy five 60-foot articulated New Flyer battery-electric buses on the MBTA Silver Line Bus Rapid Transit System. Louis County in northeast Minnesota. 54,469,249.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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Using a framework originally developed by researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Georgia Tech team estimated VMT (vehicle miles travelled) in response to three census variables: median household income, vehicle ownership, and employment rate, plus the neighborhood type classification. Stone et al.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Xcel Energy in Minnesota, for example, has already started to upgrade distribution transformers because of potential residential EV electrical-load issues. quadrillion Btus (Quads) of energy, with the transportation sector using 26.9 This situation is not true universally. However, she adds, “All those things are not a magic wand.

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President Obama, DOT Secretary Foxx announce $600M for 6th round of TIGER funding for transportation projects

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US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) competitive grant program.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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it would bring down the neighborhood. For frigid climates like the Minnesota and Canada pack warming can be integrated with the overnight charging for a PHEV. Mohamed Alamgir and Ann Marie Sastry (2008) Efficient Batteries for Transportation Applications. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. Click to enlarge. “

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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 University of Minnesota and BioCee, Inc. will develop an innovative artificial symbiotic colony of a photosynthetic bacterium with Shewanella, a hydrocarbon producing bacteria, to convert carbon dioxide to transportation fuels using sunlight.

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