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New York City awards $3.8M multi-year contract to Envision Solar to purchase EV ARC solar-powered EV chargers

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New York City has issued a three-year contract to purchase Envision Solar International’s EV ARC products. New York City’s first order will be for at least thirty EV ARC units in 2017, making it the largest single order of EV ARC products in the company’s history.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. For fleet operators, concepts like demand charges and charging management software are entirely new. The cost equation is trickier.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

Fast-forward to 2017. We did a capacity study in the area and we realized that there was a very tight industrial zone right outside of LAX, where we had this huge interest from customers, and there was seven megawatts of available power that was sitting on the grid at that time. What’s your vehicle purchasing schedule?”

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Proterra beefs up its battery expertise: Q&A CTO Dustin Grace

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New York City Transit came to us a few years ago and said, “What happens if a manhole cover explodes out of the ground? We spent about 18 months developing the first battery pack, and went to production with that vehicle around May 2017. The initiation of the Proterra Energy business unit was around late 2017.

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