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FedEx Freight adds 100 Class 8 CNG tractors, CNG fueling station in Oklahoma City

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Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier FedEx Freight has purchased more than 100 Class 8 CNG tractors from Paccar units Kenworth and Peterbilt, and has installed a CNG fueling station to serve the new CNG fleet at its Oklahoma City Service Center.

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to purchase 170 million gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) through 2026. Renewable natural gas, produced naturally from bio sources such as landfills and dairy farms, not only turns trash to gas, but it turns it into clean gas. Oklahoma City, Okla.;

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BP acquiring upstream portion of Clean Energy’s renewable gas business for $155M

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BP will acquire the upstream portion of Clean Energy’s renewable natural gas business and sign a long-term supply contract with Clean Energy to support the firm’s continuing downstream renewable natural gas business. —Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energy’s president and CEO. and North Shelby, Tenn. and Atlanta, Ga.

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Canoo continues rapid production expansion with yet another new facility

Teslarati

Canoo has announced that the company entered an agreement to purchase yet another vehicle manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City. The plant also has ambitious sustainability goals, running the plant on clean energy being the most notable. Over the past few months, Canoo has made a dramatic turnaround.

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Canoo (GOEV) stock surges after OKC EV facility gets key approval

Baua Electric

Shares of American EV startup Canoo (GOEV) are surging after its Oklahoma City facility received approval as a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). It also announced that USPS is purchasing six LDV 190 delivery vans as a transition to electric. The approval will help improve Canoo improve profitability as it scales production.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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The most extensive such experiment took place over Oklahoma City in 1964. For months, supersonic aircraft flew over the city, eight times a day, seven days a week, at unpredictable times but always during daylight hours. cities to gauge the public's reactions to what Richwine expects to be a "sonic thump."