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DOE partnership aims to spur US bidirectional charging integration for EVs and infrastructure

Green Car Reports

First spotted by solar-focused PV Magazine, the MOU brings together several Energy Department offices, the California Energy Commission, California Public.

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

Green Car Congress

Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) magazine named eNow’s eTRU system for reefer trailers one of the Top 20 Products of the year in 2020. 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.

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Tesla trifecta dominates Consumer Reports’ list of most satisfying cars on the market

Teslarati

And in this sense, even an organization such as Consumer Reports, which tends to lean into the anti-Tesla narrative every so often, recently admitted that its list of most satisfying cars on the market is dominated by vehicles from the California-based EV maker.

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Farewell, Philip E. Ross

Cars That Think

Private Eye magazine from the 1970s. In the rollicking 1990s, Forbes hired him away from Scientific American , and then a startup magazine called Red Herring hired him away from Forbes. The movies Casablanca , Life of Brian , and Animal House. It was late 1999 through early 2000.

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EPA Waiver Will Allow California to Accelerate Diesel Truck Ban

Green Fleet Magazine

The California rule includes stricter emissions requirements than the pending federal government’s regulation as well as a shorter timeline to implementation.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

Green Car Congress

A recent collaboration between the MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) showed that phenomena associated with deflection-induced pavement-vehicle interaction (PVI) accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways.

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Audi to expand plug-in hybrid range alongside e-tron electric

Green Car Reports

The company plans up to 12 new plug-in models by 2025, Audi revealed at the launch event for the e-tron quattro SUV in California last month, according to a report in British magazine Autocar. The Audi e-tron electric crossover won't be the only new model with a plug coming soon.

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