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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. The controller continuously monitors the engine’s operating conditions as well as the external environment, and uses an on-board computer to determine the most efficient course of action during real-world operation. Powertrain.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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the Environment. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. use; produce a technical reference manual for utilities and policy makers to. petroleum reduction strategies. Center for.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. The architecture goes back to the TX-2, built with 32 program counters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp.,

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Representatives Henry A.

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