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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. Louis, and north of Florida. Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

Baua Electric

“Some people put in everything they had and now they are broke or homeless or wandering from cruise to cruise like tumbleweeds because they have no other place to go,” said David Purcell, a 78-year-old retired lawyer from St. I am about to go on my fifth back-to-back cruise,” she said, speaking from a friend’s house in North Carolina. “I

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

Green Car Congress

Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses. North Carolina. Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision is replacing five short-haul trucks and one crane. New Jersey and New York. New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition is repowering seven marine vessels with 13 Tier 3 engines.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The project will include vehicles and fueling infrastructure for electric, hybrid-electric, compressed natural gas, propane, E85, and biodiesel fuels and technologies to be deployed throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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University of North Carolina. Washington University, St. Rational Design of Innovative Catalytic Technologies for Biomass Derivative Utilization. Design and characterize novel catalysts for the efficient conversion of the complex molecules comprising biomass into chemicals and fuels. Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center. $20.

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Washington University, St. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advance the knowledge of catalytic transformations through new theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches in order to design materials and processes for energy- and atom-efficient conversion of shale-gas components. Montana State University.

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