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Bollinger Motors building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric chassis cabs

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Bollinger Motors has begun building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric Class 4 chassis cabs for testing and demonstration. The Bollinger B4 will be eligible nationwide for a federal purchasing incentive of 30% of the cost of the vehicle, up to a total $40,000, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Honda to build new automobile production plant in Brazil doubling annual production capacity to 240,000 units in 2015

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HAB), the Honda automobile production and sales subsidiary in Brazil, plans to build a new automobile production plant with annual production capacity of 120,000 units. The new plant, scheduled to become operational in 2015, will produce Fit-class compact vehicles, for which demand is high on a global basis.

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Sandia Labs project team building fuel cell cold ironing system for deployment at Port of Honolulu in 2015

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A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Earlier post.). The project’s other partners include Hydrogenics Corp.,

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Government of Canada investing C$2.75B to electrify transit systems across the country

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billion) in funding over five years, starting in 2021, to enhance public transit systems and switch them to cleaner electrical power, including supporting the purchase of zero-emission public transit and school buses. Since 2015, the Government of Canada has approved C$13.6 The Government of Canada plans to provide C$2.75

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Description. City of Fairfield.

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Older Tesla Model S builds to lose connectivity features with 3G network phase out

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Tesla Model S owners with pre-June 2015 builds of the company’s flagship sedan are set to lose some connectivity features in their vehicle as AT&T is gearing up to shut down its inferior 3G network. Affected vehicles are pre June 2015. HOWEVER, Tesla will offer retrofits for $200. is installed.

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USPS now intends to deploy >66,000 EVs by 2028

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The vehicles purchased as part of this anticipated plan will begin to replace the Postal Service’s aging delivery fleet of more than 220,000 vehicles. In January 2015, USPS began the process of replacing its delivery fleet, with an initial target of about 10% electric new vehicles. —Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

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