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NCDOT Rail Division Unveils New Lounge Car
RALEIGH— The North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Division and North Carolina Operation Lifesaver (NCOL) today unveiled the newly refurbished Albemarle Sound lounge car that displays the NCOL logo on its exterior.
The logo celebrates NCOL’s more than 30 years of providing rail safety education to North Carolina and its ongoing partnership with the NCDOT Rail [...]
Passenger Train Returns to Western NC
By Media General News Service
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Several years ago, cities and towns in the foothills and mountains of western North Carolina were anxiously awaiting the return of passenger rail service.
In March 2001, the N.C. Department of Transportation adopted a phased plan to extend passenger rail service to Asheville and western North Carolina. Travelers have [...]
NC High School Students Work on Electric Car
LITTLEFIELD, N.C. (AP) – An instructor at Ayden-Grifton High School has found an eco-friendly way for students to get some hands-on experience in the classroom.
Ronnie Bowen says his automotive technology students are nearing the completion of a class project in which they have converted a 1997 Saturn SL from a gasoline-powered engine to a rechargeable [...]
Biofuels Center Shows Off Crops
OXFORD – The Biofuels Center of North Carolina showed off more than a dozen biofuels crops at the height of their summer growth in a public illustration of its North Carolina Grows Biofuels project on Monday at North Carolina’s Biofuels Campus in Oxford.
The North Carolina Grows Biofuels event displayed the unique 4-acre plot of energy [...]
BMW Creating Diesel-Electric Hybrid
BMW claims the Vision Efficientdynamics Concept can go 31 miles on battery power alone.
Wired has the details.
NC Submits Six High Speed Rail Project Applications
RALEIGH, N.C. – Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that North Carolina has submitted the first of its high speed rail applications for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
NCDOT filed six “project ready” applications totaling $92,612,936, requesting $75,950,546 in Federal Railroad Administration grants and pledging a total of $16,662,390 in matching funds. The [...]
Cash for Clunkers Ends with 700K Car Sales
The CARS program came to a close Tuesday night with nearly 700,000 clunkers taken off the roads, replaced by far more fuel efficient vehicles. Rebate applications worth $2.877 billion were submitted by the 8 p.m. deadline, under the $3 billion provided by Congress to run the program.
Cars made in America topped the most-purchased list, from [...]
EPA Accelerates Green Innovation with EcoCar Competition
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has joined the EcoCar consortium of government, industry and academic leaders dedicated to advancing clean, efficient automotive technology. The consortium hosts EcoCar,The Next Challenge, a three-year competition among 17 universities in the U.S. and Canada to redesign and reengineer a 2009 Saturn VUE to further minimize fuel [...]
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