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Miami commits to putting 100 electric school buses on the road

Baua Electric

Image by Al Diaz; via Miami Herald. Miami-Dade county is set to receive nearly $20 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to help cover the costs of 50 new electric school buses and 16 DC fast chargers, bringing the public school district’s total to 100 electric buses.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. The buses will be operated on BCT's express bus routes servicing the Southeast Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Purchase of these buses will include associated depot charging infrastructure to support bus deployment.

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Can the World’s Largest Cruise Ship Really Be Climate-Friendly?

Baua Electric

On Tuesday, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, the Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a button and a bottle of champagne smashed against the bow of Icon of the Seas, christening the world’s largest cruise ship at its home port of Miami. as a viable marine fuel.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

Charged EVs

The data is tough because a lot of it is reliant on battery chemistry,” James Litinsky, the CEO of MP Materials, said at the recent All-In Summit in Miami. Building a better supply chain will enable automakers not only to sell more EVs, but also to make them cleaner. Greening the supply chain. There should be a grand bargain.