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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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They weigh more than 10,000 pounds and include tractor-trailers and other freight trucks, school and public transit buses, delivery trucks, utility vehicles (including waste disposal), construction vehicles, and shuttles. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are adopting the same rules.

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts: $2,500,000. Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Massachusetts: $1,500,000.

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

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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. But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid.

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