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Mayor Bloomberg announces the addition of 70 new electric vehicles. NewYorkCity is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. Click to enlarge.
Chevrolet will join with Con Edison as part of a development and demonstration program to introduce electric vehicles to NewYorkCity. The arrangement will be announced at the NewYork Auto Show, where the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle with extended range will be on display.
Mobileye has completed the installation of collision avoidance technology across 4,500 for-hire vehicles in NewYorkCity. Together with Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc.,
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This service can also provide debt financing or secure grant funding to reduce capital expenditures and implement resiliency plans as needed. The offering includes managing utility administration and interconnection, as well as establishing an optimal charging strategy based on drive and duty cycles.
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The 84-passenger e-ferry is currently under construction at the Bay Ship & Yacht shipyard in Alameda, CA using private funding from SW/TCH and a $3-million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) through the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District), the administrator of the grant.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $5 million in grant funding for 4 clean diesel projects at ports in California, Oregon, New Jersey and Texas. These vessels operate between Atlantic Highlands in New Jersey and terminal locations in NewYorkCity.
Pioneering methods to accelerate electric fleet adoption, AMPLY Power will demonstrate and document its Charging-as-a-Service approach for an all-electric school bus fleet in NewYorkCity. Implementing resiliency plans where needed. —Alicia Barton, President and CEO of NYSERDA.
For the study, researchers analyzed 6 measurements of lung and heart health in 34 men and women traveling abroad for at least a week from the metropolitan NewYorkCity area. Specifically, the study found that being in a polluted city reduced measures of lung function by an average of 6% and by as much as 20% in some people.
In urban areas like NewYorkCity, some gas stations are located directly adjacent to apartment buildings. The research is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (ES009089). Similar laws exist in many, but not all states and localities. 2018.09.303.
Through the aid of government tax incentives, subsidies, loan guarantees and grants, Car Charging provides EV charging stations at no charge to property owners/managers while retaining ownership, thus allowing drivers access to convenient locations and partners to realize a percentage of the charging revenue generated.
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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As a LEAD customer, the Power Authority will receive one of the exclusive supply of Transit Connect Electrics in late 2010 and make possible the purchase of at least nine additional vans in 2011 by some of its governmental customers in Westchester County and NewYorkCity.
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A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, NewYorkCity, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. A $2,000 value!).
Revel CEO Frank Reig called out “shortsighted bureaucracy and entrenched interests” for blocking the Tesla Model Y NewYorkCity taxi fleet that the company planned to launch. On Tuesday, the NYC TLC successfully blocked Revel from launching a Model Y taxi fleet by an overwhelming five-to-one vote. Credit: Revel.
Thanks to donations, the Foundation is able to fund scholarships, research and travel grants, and fellowships in partnership with IEEE societies and sections. In 2023 it celebrated its 50th anniversary with a reception in NewYorkCity. Supporting IEEE programs is something that Im very proud of, Delimar says.
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After earning a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, Costa earned a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in NewYorkCity. She then completed Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development. Credit: Tiffany & Co.
Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1
In 1912 Clarke was hired by AT&T in NewYorkCity as a computing assistant. Clarke was granted a U.S. After high school, Clarke used a small inheritance from her parents to attend Vassar , a women’s college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and astronomy in 1908.
NewYorkCity is the first city in the deployment plan, and it was funded through a grant from the NewYork State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Additionally they plan to deploy.
She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , NewYorkCity public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in NewYorkCity. The startup received grants from the U.S. She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools.
Williams was granted 27 U.S. He was granted 15 patents. Minker earned a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College , in NewYorkCity, in 1949; a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1950; and a Ph.D. He managed several magnetic recording projects during his career.
Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in NewYorkCity, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Known as the Genius Grant, the fellowship comes with a US $625,000 award, which Estrin used to help launch PiTech.
Baer, Morrison, and Cope were granted a U.S. After a few more tweaks—including making the plastic case round and adding three levels of difficulty— Simon was launched in May 1978 at Studio 54 in NewYorkCity. patent for the game in 1980. Milton Bradley , headquartered in East Longmeadow, Mass., Taft, Jr. ,
Grady is now the chief executive of Paige , in NewYorkCity. He was granted 40 U.S. "AI is a mix of psychology, engineering, computer science, and a little bit of philosophy. It really caught my imagination.". In 2018 the company spun off from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Under his leadership, the team won a grant from the Advanced Research Projects AgencyEnergy. Karl Kay Womack Computer engineer Life Fellow, 90; died 10 July Womack spent his career working on early computers at IBM in NewYorkCity.
The plan, which identifies $8billion provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as well as $1billion for five years requested in the federal budget, will begin in late summer when the Federal Railroad Administration begins awarding the first round of grants. Chicago Hub Network( Chicago, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, St.
Tesla and Uber have also been working together to share data in order to better deploy charging stations in NewYorkCity, where there are a lot of Uber drivers using Tesla vehicles. The post Tesla integrates Uber driver navigation directly into its vehicles appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.
Dennard began his career as a staff engineer at IBM ’s NewYorkCity research lab. He worked on new devices and circuits for logic and memory applications and developed advanced data communication techniques. He was granted a U.S. The computing pioneer received the 2009 IEEE Medal of Honor for his innovation.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering, Gelnovatch earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1967 from NewYork University , in NewYorkCity. During his career, Gelnovatch published 50 research papers and was granted eight U.S.
The reports were based on comments from Errol Musk , Elon Musk’s father, who told the publication, among other things, that Elon and Kimbal at one time sold a pair of emeralds to Tiffany’s in NewYorkCity for about $2,000, and that the Musk family was so wealthy that they had difficulty closing their safe.
or NewYorkCity. She launched the first class in January 2006, and as she built Year Up’s presence in Washington, Boyea-Robinson’s work became a model for the organization nationwide, starting in NewYork later that year. “The That student was me,” she says, “with different options and choices.”
NYU is also designed to be part of the fabric of the city—the fact that NewYorkCity is our campus makes it very unique and special. Another aspect to the launching of the initiative here that I think is important, and is going to play a major role in the science, is the fact that we are in NewYorkCity.
A new start for decarbonizing chemical manufacturing DC-MUSE was conceived in the summer of 2020 in a workshop attended by over 40 companies and institutions, and organized by a planning grant from the National Science Foundation to build capacity in convergent research. million in grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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