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Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego, Calif. The Mississippi State University EcoCAR team chose to design an EREV hybrid with a 21.3 kWh A123 Systems battery pack which provides an electric range of 60 miles. It’s also equipped with a 1.3L
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—Darren Woods, ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO The acquisition of Denbury provides ExxonMobil with the largest owned and operated CO 2 pipeline network in the US at 1,300 miles, including nearly 925 miles of CO 2 pipelines in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi—located within one of the largest US markets for CO 2 emissions, as well as 10 strategically (..)
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