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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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Elon Musk listed as Featured Speaker for 2023 POSSIBLE event

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Musk will join Linda Yaccarino of NBCUniversal on April 18 in Miami to discuss Twitter and how it will shape marketers, culture, and other conversations. Musk will also discuss the role Twitter, the social media platform he purchased last year, plays in cultural conversations. The event will be called “Twitter 2.0:

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South Florida Communities Purchase 11 Hydraulic Hybrid Refuse Trucks with Parker Hannifin System

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The Florida communities of Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, and the City of Miami are purchasing 11 Autocar E3 refuse trucks fitted with parker Hannifin’s RunWise hydraulic hybrid technology. Earlier post.) Delivery is expected in mid-year 2010. The system is in pre-production. Full production is expected in 2011.

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Tesla Model Y becomes a hotel amenity thanks to ride-sharing platform Envoy

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Envoy Technologies has made the Tesla Model Y an official amenity for visitors of the Mondrian South Beach hotel in Miami. For the first time, Envoy is launching at a hotel, previously building its EV share offering in multifamily housing communities and office buildings. Credit: Envoy.

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Miami commissioner leads by example

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Some might call the idea a little insular, but no-one could accuse Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff of not practising what he preaches. Recently the commissioner urged Miami natives to ‘buy American’ and now he has traded in his foreign car - a Smart car - for a new Ford Fusion Hybrid.

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Ford and Volkswagen expand global collaboration to include EVs, invest in Argo AI

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The car-maker is planning to use this platform to build approximately 15 million cars for the Volkswagen Group alone in the next decade. As part of the transaction, Volkswagen also will purchase Argo AI shares from Ford for $500 million over three years. For Ford, using Volkswagen’s MEB architecture is part of its more than $11.5

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Can Software Save the World at a Profit?

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Collin Gutman is managing partner of SaaS Ventures , a venture capital fund based in Miami and Washington, D.C., Cloverly is also involved in carbon emissions tracking, giving companies and consumers more control over the purchase of carbon offsets, instead of having businesses buy offsets as an all or nothing decision.