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Electrifying School Buses

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This comes from expenses for fuel and maintenance, including routine and non-routine checks and upgrades. Chargers (Exceed DC series). Vehicles can charge on either AC or DC chargers. Operation Cost. As with most EVs, the cost of operating a gas-powered vehicle is simply higher than that of operating an electric one.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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This is a unique approach that seeks to replace lower efficiency, high maintenance, long-stroke linear generator systems. Eliminating these subsystems reduces both capital and operations and maintenance costs and improves turbine reliability. The project will assess the cost of manufacturing these systems at various scales.

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