WIT Meets With NTSB Chair
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman spent nearly four days recently immersed in activities to help her better understand the trucking industry.
Prosecutor: N.J. woman killed when train hits car
Authorities say a Rutgers University student was killed when her car was struck by a New Jersey Transit train after she drove around some lowered crossing gates in central New Jersey.
Fuel Issues
Scaled back from its original proposal, a new NAT GAS Act was reintroduced in Congress yesterday to provide incentives for the purchase of natural gas trucks and to build refueling infrastructure across the U.S. Beaver State builds on biodiesel mandate…
Volunteers build house inside airplane hangar
Republic Airways turned its Indianapolis hangar into a work zone Saturday as volunteers built the first ever Habitat for Humanity home inside an airplane hangar.
CoS2 hollow spheres show promise as high discharge capacity Li-ion anodes; other applications
Left: Charge-discharge curves of the CoS2 hollow spheres. Upper right: XRD profiles of
the CoS2 hollow spheres. Lower right: SEM images of the spheres. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge.
Researchers at Nankai University (China) have synthes…
PATH service currently suspended between Exchange Place and World Trade Center
Published: Saturday, April 09, 2011, 10:59 AM Updated: Saturday, April 09, 2011, 11:04 AM Journal file photo Train service between Exchange Place and World Trade Center is currently suspended for essential maintenance Port Authority of New York and New…
JFK airport shuttle security lapses cited
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators.
New lightweight, lower-cost Uni-Chassis targeting plug-in hybrids and EVs
Theodore and Associates is unveiling the Uni-Chassis, a frameless body-on-chassis design that is lighter in weight, lower investment and lower cost compared to traditional body-on-frame and unibody designs, at the 2011 SAE World Congress in Detroit thi…
Canada Post adds Navistar’s eStar electric truck to fleet
On the heels of announcing it had purchased the first fully electric small delivery vehicles, Canada Post added the first all-electric step vans in Canada to its fleet. The Navistar eStar (earlier post), a Class 2c-3 electric truck and the first in its…
GS Yuasa to supply Li-ion batteries to PSA Peugeot Citron for electric commercial vehicles
Nikkei. GS Yuasa Corp. plans to supply lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles to PSA Peugeot Citroëën SA.
GS Yuasa now supplies lithium ion batteries to Mitsubishi Motors for use in the i-MiEV electric car. Mitsubishi and PSA Peugeot Cit…