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GM’s Maven and Uber to pilot flexible car-sharing offer

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The 90-day pilot will launch in San Francisco as part of Uber’s Vehicle Solutions program, which provides driver-partners flexible options to access vehicles they can drive on the Uber platform. Insurance coverage is included in the cost of every lease for a weekly price of $179 plus taxes and fees. with more on the way.

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PJM/Better Place study finds unmanaged charging of 1M electric cars could add $750M in annual wholesale energy costs; need for CNO-managed smart charging

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Simply plugging in one million electric cars (unmanaged or ad hoc charging) could add $750 million in annual wholesale energy costs unless smart charging is adopted, according to a joint study conducted by PJM Interconnection and Better Place, released by Better Place. The two-tier pricing scenario, modeled on the pilot EV.

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Advanced Biofuels USA receives USDA grant for feasibility study of eastern shore energy beet-to-jetfuel project

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Unique Maryland-based innovations of the bio-jetfuel project include non-food, low nutrient input energy beets developed by Plant Sensory Systems, LLC of Baltimore and a proprietary enzyme conversion system that utilizes the entire biomass of the energy beet root, including biomass ignored during conventional sugar production.

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DOE selects 15 projects for $32M to advance lower-cost fusion concepts; ARPA-E BETHE

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The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. However, there remains a need to lower the costs of fusion development and accelerate its development timeline to have appreciable impact. Earlier post.)

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Mayor Menino Adds Boston

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Menino Guest Column Thursday, February 2, 2006 Here is part of the Mayor's column. "In The cost of charging the battery of a PHEV is estimated to be just 50-75 cents per gallon equivalent. Boston joins in the Plug-In Campaign. By Mayor Thomas M. more Here is the list of City Partners as of today. We expect some more big ones soon.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance.