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Porsche launches carbon offset program in US

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Following its corporate fleets, PCNA will soon offer Porsche Impact to USA customers who want to reduce the CO 2 footprint of their internal-combustion engines. The two Experience Centers are popular destinations, with more than 335,000 visitors combined since opening in 2015 in Atlanta and 2016 in LA.

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ALTe Powertrain Technologies to form $200M JV in China; 4 factories plus $70M services contract for range-extended plug-in light commercial powertrain

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Under the agreement, ALTe will own one third of the Joint Venture known as MESA Industrial Technology Corporation. Designed to replace a base V-8 internal combustion engine powertrain, the current system’s technology improves fuel economy from 80–200%. A total of US$200 million has been committed to the JV at this stage.

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Hertz adds 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to rental fleet

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The Hertz Corporation, which includes the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands, has expanded of its Green Traveler Collection car rental fleet to include the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid ( earlier post ) in select cities across the US.

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ARPA-E awarding $9.4M to 4 projects focused on removing sulfur hexafluoride from US grid

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Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.; and Toshiba International Corporation in Houston, Texas. Toshiba International Corporation. However, SF 6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with 23,500 times the comparative Global Warming Potential of CO 2 and a lifetime of 3,200 years in the atmosphere.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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General Motors Corporation. Exide Technologies with Axion Power International. Honeywell International Inc. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation. State of Colorado State of Georgia Fort Collins, CO Boulder, CO Atlanta, GA. Brownstown, MI. Production of high-volume battery packs for the GM Volt.

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Clean Energy unveils LNG backbone network for America’s Natural Gas Highway; 150 LNG stations by end of 2013

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Worth); Los Angeles-Dallas; Houston-Chicago; Chicago-Atlanta; and a network of stations along major highways in the mid-west region (IL, IN, OH, MO, KY, TN, KS, OK, AL) to serve the heavy trucking traffic in the area. Earlier post.).

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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The selected projects, each 36 months in duration, include: Georgia Tech Research Corporation , Atlanta, Ga. The initiative is managed by FE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. DOE share: $500,000; recipient share: $125,000).

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