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Better Place and DSB, Denmark’s state-owned passenger rail company, signed an agreement to provide Danes with door-to-door, sustainabletransportation by combining passenger rail and electric car service. The agreement contains two main elements.
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched a new $2.3-million million pilot program to accelerate the transfer of innovative clean energy technologies from the DOE’s National Laboratories into the commercial marketplace.
The expanded collaboration aims to explore how to integrate breakthroughs in material science and recycling concepts to support electric mobility and sustainabletransportation. Volkswagen is focused to push electric mobility and new technologies for ever-more sustainabletransportation. transportation sector.
The California Energy Commission has unanimously approved two major investment plans that could total nearly a half a billion dollars. One will fund clean energy research that benefits electricity ratepayers. The clean energy research plan is a $388-million investment funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC).
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billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion (35.8%) science and energy Budget Request, $1.3 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72 President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level.
million in funding for renewableenergy and biomedical technology projects in the third year of a joint program that teams up investigators from both schools. Integrated energy-economy-environment (3E) modeling for clean vehicle development in China. Engineering the right fuel for sustainabletransportation.
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Cheng of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory assessing the prospects for methanol as an alternative transportation fuel in the US concludes that methanol is a safe and viable transportation fuel, although it not as good as ethanol in terms of energy density and ease of handling. The resulting transportation system could then be.
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to acquire all of the outstanding shares of solar energy provider SolarCity. In a blog post, Tesla management said that: Tesla’s mission has always been tied to sustainability. We seek to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainabletransportation by offering increasingly affordable electric vehicles.
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