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New Flyer unveils Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus; first to offer two fuel-cell-electric models eligible for federal funding

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(“NFI”), the largest bus manufacturer in North America, unveiled the Xcelsior CHARGE H2—ts fuel cell-electric heavy-duty transit bus—and announced that both the forty-foot and sixty-foot model have successfully completed the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Model Bus Testing Program at Altoona, Pennsylvania (Altoona Testing).

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First two Freightliner eCascadia electric trucks headed to customers

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Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) has built the first two Class 8 battery electric Freightliner eCascadias for customers at its research and development center in Portland. The trucks are part of Freightliner’s Electric Innovation Fleet and built to test the integration of battery electric trucks in to large-scale fleet operations.

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Clean Energy to provide LNG to Hawaii Gas; additional agreements in trucking, transit and refuse markets

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Clean Energy has announced fueling has begun at an Exxon public-access station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which serves the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System. The station will support Raven Transportation’s fleet of LNG trucks at an estimated 11,000 GGEs per month.

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Pike Research forecasts US plug-in vehicle penetration rates to be highest in smaller states

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Exelon (Illinois, Pennsylvania). The MSAs that most match the model demographics were: Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA. Pike Research expects that the electric utilities with the largest number of electric vehicles will be: Southern California Edison (California). Pacific Gas & Electric (California). Consolidated Edison (New York).

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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The Pennsylvania Partnership for Promoting Natural Gas Vehicles project. Greater Portland. Purchasing Agreements; train and deploy Energy Coaches who will work. directly with public and private fleets to assess and successfully implement. opportunities for alternative fuel vehicle use; conduct an audit of the State. Delaware Valley.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. Northwest Energy Innovations (Portland, Oregon) will verify ocean wavelength performance for a new multimode floating point absorber wave energy device. DOE Funding: $240,000.

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Layered Graphene Sheets Could Be A Promising Hydrogen Storage Material

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Graphene—carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick—now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Pennsylvania. To be presented at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Portland, Ore.,

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