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Biden to pour hundreds of millions into building EV charging stations

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billion plan to extensively build out EV infrastructure in the US – much to the chagrin of some Republican lawmakers – the government has announced that it is investing $623 million in grants to put 7,500 more EV charging stations on the roads. For Puerto Rico, some $51 million is earmarked to build out charging stations along its corridors.

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Amazon finds utility approvals to be the biggest EV charging infrastructure bottleneck – Charged EVs

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Building the trucks appears to have been the easy part. One of Amazon’s biggest electric fleets is in Houston, where the company has 1,000 Rivian vans in service, and over 300 charging stations at one warehouse alone. Many fleets are going electric, but to the best of our knowledge, none are doing so on the same scale as Amazon.

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Electrify America, Walmart complete >120 ultra-fast charging stations at Walmart Stores

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Building upon the original commitment set forth in April 2018, the companies are planning to expand the relationship in the coming years with additional Electrify America charging stations located at Walmart stores across the country. Electrify America chargers at Walmart stores feature 150 kilowatt (kW) and 350kW DC Fast Chargers.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. transportable like fuels, 100% renewable, rechargeable like a. residential and commercial buildings, where there are. National Renewable.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. But most could build it for under $1k and mine gets the equivalent of 600mpg fuel cost wise.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. There are about 600,000 GHE installations working in the U.S.

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