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Tesla Model 3 Road Trip Review — Finishing Our Transcontinental Tesla Trip To California

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We’ve recently driven our Tesla Model 3 from our daughter’s house near Charlotte North Carolina, to Salt Lake City Utah. With 2 Million Teslas Sold, Is the Tesla Supercharger Network Keeping Up? Just now we finished the last leg of our transcontinental Model 3 adventure on February 14, 2022, driving from the Salt Lake City, […].

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Fontaine Modification offers refrigerated trailer electrification through new strategic alliance with eNow

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The company’s expert technicians will install the systems at its facilities in Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina; Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Dublin, Virginia; and Mineral Wells, West Virginia. In addition to environmental benefits, using eTRU technology reduces fuel and maintenance costs.

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Ferguson collaborates with Ford on F550 Fuel Cell Prototype

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As part of this collaboration, Ferguson will also prepare a location in Charlotte, NC for the installation of temporary infrastructure equipment for the duration of the pilot. Together, these investments in new technologies will help inform Ferguson’s strategy for a more environmentally friendly fleet.

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US DOE awards EPRI $5.1M for advanced nuclear technology

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EPRI) of Palo Alto, California and Charlotte, North Carolina to: Develop and establish MIC-EBW capability at a major US fabricator. The EPRI project was selected under the Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway: Establishing Modular In-Chamber Electron Beam Welding (MIC-EBW) Phase II – Under this proposal, DOE will award $5.1

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Asplundh adds medium-duty propane autogas F-650 trucks to fleet

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The most complex unit is a bucket truck equipped with a 58-foot aerial lift that is operating in the Charlotte area, pruning trees away from power lines. An Asplundh-affiliated company also operates a chip dump truck in California where emissions regulations are stringent.

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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. Her father, a chemist, was on the team that first synthesized vitamin B1 at pharmaceutical company Merck in Charlotte, N.C. in Charlotte. While at Stanford, Parker says, she fell in love with California.

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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The San Jose area had the highest share at 10%, followed by other California areas (4% to 6%) and markets in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (2% to 4%). Overall, the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric in these 50 areas is 1.2%, about 3 times the proportion in the rest of the United States.

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