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MARCH 3, 2020

s Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus powered by Proterra electric vehicle technology ( earlier post ) and the Proterra 60kW charging system for deployment with the Beverly Public Schools, in Beverly, Massachusetts. Highland Electric Transportation has selected Thomas Built Buses Inc.’s

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JANUARY 8, 2019

NFI), the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer in North America, announced that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has awarded New Flyer a new contract for five sixty-foot (10 equivalent units) New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty, battery-electric zero-emission buses. New Flyer of America Inc.,

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JUNE 1, 2009

maker of the long-lasting, fast-charging Sonata Li-ion battery for laptops, is planning to build a 455,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, Massachusetts that would complement its existing China-based operations. Boston-Power, Inc.,

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APRIL 26, 2010

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has approved a $5-million forgivable loan for Li-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems contingent on its hitting job creation and private investment milestones. With the new expansion, A123 Systems will assemble and commission grid-storage battery systems in Massachusetts.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The University of Massachusetts Amherst recently granted a biofuels startup company, Anellotech , exclusive global rights to the university’s catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) technology developed by chemical engineer and UMass Amherst faculty member George Huber for producing renewable biogasoline and other biohydrocarbon fuels.

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JUNE 30, 2009

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. California is preserving its right to establish more stringent standards in the future.

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MARCH 12, 2021

As part of the agreement, GM and SES plan to build a manufacturing prototyping line in Woburn, Massachusetts, for a high-capacity, pre-production battery by 2023. The company’s expertise in this field has resulted in 49 patents granted and 45 patents pending. Affordability and range are two major barriers to mass EV adoption.

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JULY 12, 2018

BYD recently delivered five electric buses to the Vineyard Transit Authority (VTA) in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; a sixth is scheduled to be delivered by the end of the July. VTA is the first transit agency in Massachusetts to commit to going all-electric. —Angie Grant, Administrator of Vineyard Transit Authority.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Audi of America (AoA) and the Audi Environmental Foundation are awarding a $100,000 grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the lead institution in the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA). The consortium is pursuing an aggressive timeline, with hopes to have the new climate model running within the next five years.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Martha's Vineyard Transit Authority will receive funds to purchase new electric buses and support charging infrastructure. 1,100,000.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

A Massachusetts startup has signed a license agreement with Battelle to commercialize battery technology that can help store large amounts of renewable energy and improve the reliability of the nation''s power grid. This is the third and final license granted for PNNL’s technologies to all-vanadium, mixed acid redox flow battery developers.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

ONE said its investment, which is supported by a $215-million state grant, marks the beginning of a trend away from NCM-based cell factories; ONE’s Michigan factory will be first in developing North American material supply chains to commercialize LFP technologies that do not sacrifice EV range.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Virgin Islands) will accept applications requesting up to $2,500,000 in grant funds. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The project was supported with a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) grant program, which is funding nearly 100 projects across the commonwealth to help electrify the transportation sector. Harmful air pollutants will also be reduced providing health benefits to local communities.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. DOE grant: $7,200,000). Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a paradigm shifting new all-liquid metal grid scale battery for low cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. DOE grant: $6,949,624). Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

concentrations and particle composition from area samples collected in the subways of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York/New Jersey (NYC/NJ); and Washington, District of Columbia. A team led by NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers measured real-time and gravimetric PM 2.5

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MARCH 20, 2015

The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. Massachusetts. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Ventures, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

The waiver was granted by EPA in coordination with the Department of Energy (DOE). EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson determined that, as a result of effects of Hurricane Sandy, extreme and unusual supply circumstances exist, which may result in a temporary shortage of gasoline compliant with federal regulations.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri (formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation) is developing an electricity storage solution that was invented in the lab of Dr. Donald Sadoway, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with Dr. David Bradwell (Ambri’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder). Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 4, 2013

After opening a store in Natick Mall, Massachusetts, Tesla Motors has been embroiled in a battle to let it sell cars from the store. Permission was granted for the store to sell vehicles back in December, and now a judge's dismissal of a dealers' lawsuit against the company has stepped a further direction in Tesla's favor.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. On 30 June, the Research Board awarded 17 grants totaling $1.5 Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Augmenting those capabilities, Boston-Power’s Westborough, Massachusetts-based team maintains responsibility for intellectual property development, research and development, global customer support, sales and business development and partnerships with advanced research organizations in the Boston area.

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JUNE 18, 2011

Phase 1 of the project will be located in Lexington, Massachusetts; the company is evaluating site locations for another planned phase.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

All litigations will be dismissed and a license under these patents will be granted to A123, as agreed by the parties, under the settlement. The alliance has previously granted four sublicenses to these technologies. Earlier post.). In return, LiFePO 4 +C Licensing AG receives rights to two recent battery material patents from A123.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Approximately 300 different entities were granted fuel cell patents in 2013. The rest of the top five, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio, have a cumulative total that is less than Michigan on its own. million in grants to build new and upgrade existing hydrogen fueling stations around the state.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of grant funding to implement projects aimed at reducing emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. EPA anticipates awarding approximately $44 million in Diesel Emission Reduction Program (DERA) grant funding to eligible applicants.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The recipients of the cooperative research grants are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Chattanooga Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA), and Utah State University.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and Systems (MIT-CG). This interdepartmental center, part of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), brings together MIT researchers and industrial partners to advance the science and engineering of graphene-based technologies.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Last Friday, a judge denied a request by the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association for an injunction that would have shut down the Tesla Store in Natick, which opened on September 28. If the dealers' request had been granted, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] would have been.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Smirnova and research scientist Dr. Abu Md “Numan” Numan-Al-Mobin are leading the grant proposal to NSF for the establishment of the Center for Green Solid-State Electric Power Generation and Storage (CEPS). Each university received $15,000 of the planning grant. NSF will evaluate CEPS’ progress during the conference this week.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

These grants are available when a vehicle is either purchased or leased for 36 months or longer. At launch, the Prius Plug-in Hybrid will be available in the following 14 states: California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The new “green zone” on the BCG’s middle level is part of an ongoing effort by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority(MCCA)—which owns and operates the garage—to create one of Boston’s most environmentally friendly public parking facilities. The charging stations were funded through a US Department of Energy grant.

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MAY 19, 2009

Qteros, a Massachusetts startup (formerly SunEthanol) commercializing consolidated bio-processing (CBP) technology based on the “Q Microbe” ( Clostridium phytofermentans ), announced that Valero Energy Corp. Over the past year and a half, the company has received four grants from the US Department of Energy for technological development.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding 20 grants for FY 2009 in two research areas on natural systems: biosensing and bioactuation (12 awards); and obtaining hydrocarbons from biomass and microorganisms (8 awards). Curt Conner, all from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Mountziaris, and W.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Nth Cycle , a Beverly, Massachusetts-based battery recycling tech firm, has been awarded a $2.15 million grant from the US Department of Energy. The post Here’s why this small battery recycling tech firm just got a $2M DOE grant appeared first on Electrek.

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JULY 23, 2021

Massachusetts announces $1.6 million in grants to support offshore wind workforce training. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Here are 3 ways clean energy is boosting grid resilience right now in the face of extreme weather.

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