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Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

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The study considers five different powertrains (internal combustion engine, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, fuel-cell-electric, and battery-electric) and 12 cost components (purchase cost, depreciation, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repair, taxes, registration fees, tolls and parking, payload capacity and labor).

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REGI secures up to $20M for biodiesel plant capacity expansion

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has secured financing of up to $20 million from First Midwest Bank for the $24-million capacity-expansion project at the company’s Ralston, Iowa biodiesel refinery. —Chad Stone, Chief Financial Officer. First Midwest Bank has also been involved in financing for REG Newton. Renewable Energy Group, Inc.

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DOE labs study on costs and benefits of new transportation technologies the most comprehensive to date

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Birky, Alicia, Hunter, Chad, Lin, Zhenhong, Ou, Shiqi, Xie, Fei, Proctor, Camron, Wiryadinata, Steven, Liu, Nawei, and Boloor, Madhur. —Andrew Burnham, an environmental scientist at Argonne, creator of AFLEET, and co-author. Burnham, Andrew, Gohlke, David, Rush, Luke, Stephens, Thomas, Zhou, Yan, Delucchi, Mark A.,

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

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sources of the key electric vehicle battery metal, although key financing and local regulatory challenges remain. Piedmont must still obtain a local zoning variance and financing for the project, estimated to cost more than USD 1 billion. Low lithium prices may also hobble Piedmont’s financing attempts, analysts said.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Similarly, GE sold off GE Capital for $26 billion after the 2008 finance and banking collapse, which is a far cry from a decade earlier, when it was worth ten times that. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. James Cortada Timing is everything. This interview was recorded July 21, 2021, on Adobe Audition via Skype, and edited in Audacity.

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