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DOE Delivers $377 Million, Promises $777 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers
(Photo by constantly_Jair on Flickr) The Department of Energy is using $777 million from its annual budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to invest in alternative energy research through 2013. Secretary Steven Chu officially ...
Volvo, Vattenfall and Ener1 Working on PHEV Demonstration Cars
New York-based Ener1 Inc. will work with Volvo to manufacture PHEV demonstration versions of the automaker’s V70 wagon. Ener1’s lithium-ion batteries will be placed within Volvo PHEV systems for a duo of demonstration vehicles about to hit Europe...
USPS Adding Nearly 2,000 Alternative Fuel Vehicles to Delivery Fleet by 2014
The familiar white box trucks that deliver packages and letters for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will get greener over the next five years. The federal government’s General Services Administration (GSA) recently purchased 6,500 replacement vehicl...
Scania AB to Supply Stockholm Public Transit System With Ethanol-Powered Buses
Swedish truck manufacturer Scania AB announced last week that Stockholm’s Busslink has purchased 85 buses powered by ethanol. Busslink is the operator for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), which is Stockholm’s public transit system. SL is getting ...
Ohio State University Leads in First Stage of EcoCar: The NeXt Challenge Competition
The U.S. Department of Energy, the Canadian government and General Motors started the EcoCar: The NeXt Challenge competition earlier this year as a challenge to future auto engineers. This competition tasks 17 groups of university students throu...
ECOtality, PAG, Nissan Partnering for Regional EV Infrastructure in Tucson
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has been busy in the last two years partnering with utilities in Japan, Denmark, France, Monaco and other countries to create an EV infrastructure. Nissan is making inroads into the American market with its recent commitme...
Orbital Corporation, Sygma Motors Developing Flex Fuel Engines in Brazil
(Photo by Thomas Hobbs on Flickr) Brazilian businesses and government agencies may be running on ethanol rather than gasoline if collaboration between Orbital Corporation Limited and Sygma Motors-Egneharia Industria E Comercio de Motors Ltda...
Ethanol, Vegetable Oil, and CNG: the Future of Fuel
What is the fuel of the future? With petroleum finally on the way out there are a myriad of alternative fuels vying to take its place. Among there are perhaps the top three competitors for most available, and most sustainable source, consisting of et...
General Motors, Department of Energy and College Students Present EcoCAR Designs in Washington, DC
The Washington Auto Show featured a presentation by 17 teams of engineering students participating in the EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge program. This program is funded by the Department of Energy (DOE), the California Air Resources Board (CARB...
