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DOE to Award Up to $300M in Stimulus Bill Funding for Projects to Expand Use of Alt-Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles

Green Car Congress

The FOA modifies a much smaller and earlier-issued FOA by incorporating a supplemental $300 million appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (the stimulus bill) for the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) of 2005 Section 721 to fund a competitive grant pilot program to be administered through the Clean Cities Program.

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PECO Expanding Fleet with NGVs & PHEVs

Green Car Congress

The utility is participating in a national consortium that recently was awarded a federal stimulus grant to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and the company is buying more trucks to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as well. The matching stimulus grant will provide up to $2.5 million for the vehicle conversions.

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Headwaters and University of Utah Form JV for Carbon Storage

Green Car Congress

Headwaters said that momentum for creating an entirely new industry surrounding carbon capture and storage has been building since passage of the stimulus bill. The University of Utah has CO 2 expertise and technology developed by a team led by Dr. Brian McPherson.

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ZAP, Zhejiang Jonway Partner to Target China and Export EV Markets

Green Car Congress

ZAP hopes to leverage a stimulus from the government for plug-in forms of transportation. In 2009, the company sold more than 120,000 vehicles internationally in the European Union and the United States and has a capacity to build up to 400,000 vehicles annually.

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New "E-nose" Samples Odors 60 Times Per Second

Cars That Think

The e-nose uses two pairs of four distinct sensors to build a pattern of resistance response curves. Resistance response curves illustrate how a sensor’s resistance changes over time in response to a stimulus, such as an odor. student at the University of Hertfordshire and Western Sydney University.

London 131
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We've Entered a New Era of Streaming Health Care. Now What?

Cars That Think

That system uses the sensors on an Apple Watch (namely the heart sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope) to detect a nightmare, and then delivers a vibration stimulus to the wrist that terminates the nightmare without waking the user. The Grand Challenges There's a lot of work still to do.

Personal 142
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How NI plans to innovate in the EV test and measurement industry and unlock the power of data

Charged EVs

The Austin-based company has been launching new products and making strategic acquisitions to build complete solution-level capabilities for EV battery testing and validation, led by its automotive customers who don’t have time to build up the technology themselves. There is also a growing sense that a few EV winners could take all.

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