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Revoy’s battery trailer turns a semi-truck into a hybrid – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

When the truck leaves Dallas, it drives 234 miles to a station in Arkansas for another quick swap. Revoy’s system charges its batteries only at times when the cost of electricity is low, and trucking companies pay only for the service, not the vehicles. The unit economics work,” Rust says. The customers are loving it.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

Green Car Congress

million for the creation of two new Biomass Crop Assistance Program ( BCAP ) project areas in New York and North Carolina, and the expansion of an already established BCAP project area in Arkansas. This Arkansas BCAP project area is sponsored by MFA Oil Biomass LLC, in Columbia, Mo. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) administers BCAP.

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News: 10 Best States To Own an EV

Clean Fleet Report

The cost of buying and running an EV varies depending on where you live. Calculating the cost of gas compared to the cost of electricity over the length of car ownership, Jerry found Washington, Oregon and Nevada EV owners would save more than $4,800. Study Ranks Best and Worst Places To Drive Electric. Connecticut.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

Green Car Congress

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

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