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CARB settles with American Honda Motor for $6.9M for violations of air quality regulations on small off-road engines

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) reached a settlement agreement with American Honda Motor Corporation, Inc. In 2019, CARB testing revealed several small off-road engine (SORE) products did not meet CARB evaporative emission standards. Small off-road engines are a major source of pollution in California.

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BP to Acquire Vereniums Cellulosic Biofuels Business for $98.3M; Verenium retaining Enzyme Business

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BP and Verenium Corporation announced an agreement for BP Biofuels North America to acquire Verenium’s cellulosic biofuels business, including the facilities in Jennings, LA and San Diego, CA, for $98.3 The ability to transition out of the San Diego, CA facility over the next two years. Earlier post.)

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DOE Turns Down V-Vehicle Loan Applications

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San Diego, Ca-based V-Vehicle Company (VVC) ( earlier post ) has been informed that the Program Office of the US Department of Energy (DOE) will not recommend approval of VVC’s two loan applications for $321.1 million to complete engineering integration with VVC’s 30 US suppliers. The first loan application was for $79.9

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Battle of the (Anti-Nausea) Bands

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Bucklin and the Sense Relief team, on the other hand, are going all-in on developing a networked digital therapeutic with their app, which provides pressure pulses via the Apple Watch's Taptic Engine. The company recently received a vote of confidence in that approach via an innovation grant from the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. And what was IBM's position: Should personal computers be taken seriously or not?

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Because of Hondas different architecture (the engine runs whenever the motor runs), aftermarket conversion of Hondas are unlikely. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. Andy Frank, this academic program has converted a number of internal combustion engine vehicles for demonstration purposes.

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DOE Award Supports Largest Single Deployment of EVs and Infrastructure Yet; Up to 5,000 Nissan LEAF EVs in 5 Regions

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Lead grant applicant Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a subsidiary of ECOtality, received a $99.8 million, for installation of approximately 2,500 charging stations in each of five markets: Tennessee, Oregon, San Diego, Seattle and the Phoenix/Tucson region. Nissan introduced the LEAF on 2 August.

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