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Eaton to develop affordable home refueling station for natural gas vehicles; liquid piston technology

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The effort is funded in part by a $3.4-million and Milwaukee and the Advanced Hydraulics group in Eden Prairie, Minn. Eaton Corporation will develop an affordable home refueling station for natural gas vehicles, utilizing existing natural gas sources in the home and innovative compressor technology. Earlier post.).

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Johnson Controls partners with UW-Madison on battery lab

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The UW-Madison partnership complements Johnson Controls’ existing partnership with UW-Milwaukee. At UW-Milwaukee, Johnson Controls scientists are working with university research staff and students to develop new energy storage materials. The partnership enables students there to expand their knowledge in a test lab on campus.

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Johnson Controls endowing University of Wisconsin System for energy storage research

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is endowing a professorship, research labs and graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Part of the funding will support the creation of The Johnson Controls Energy Storage Research Lab at UW-Madison. Johnson Controls, Inc.

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Azure Dynamics signs HEV/EV sales/service agreements with 76 additional dealerships

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The dealerships are part of Azure’s channel distribution strategy which involves establishing partnerships with dealerships, body vendors, leasing agencies and other customer-facing businesses to represent (sell and/or service) Azure products to current and potential customers. Azure dealerships can be seen on an interactive map at [link].

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Odyne Systems delivers 7 plug-in hybrid work trucks through the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program

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The following have received advanced Odyne hybrid systems under the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program: Milwaukee County took delivery of four work trucks in December 2011 and January 2012 that will be used throughout Milwaukee County to maintain traffic signals and street lighting. ComEd received a $1.5

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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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Led by Lukas Graber , head of Georgia Techs plasma and dielectrics lab, the research group will run its 72-kV prototype AC breaker through a synthetic test circuit at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee beginning in late April. The team turned to the petroleum industry to find the parts, and found all but one: the bushing.

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US PIRG report finds reduced driving and rates of car commuting in most populous US urbanized areas

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States with shading are missing reliable data for all or part of an urbanized area, and ‘X’s denote the location of excluded urbanized areas. The urbanized areas containing two Wisconsin cities, Milwaukee and Madison, saw the second and third biggest drops in per-capita VMT: 21% and 18%, respectively. Source: US PIRG.

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