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

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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Georgia Department of Transportation.

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Miami commits to putting 100 electric school buses on the road

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Miami-Dade county is one of four school districts selected to receive a total of $33,175,000 through the EPA’s first Clean School Bus Program’s Grants Competition. In addition to those funds, Highland CSB 1, LLC is receiving $30,660,000 to purchase 97 buses for use throughout Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

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EPA honors winners of the 20th Annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge; advanced biofuels

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Algenol is also working with PNNL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Georgia Tech on development of higher-value green chemical production concepts. The overall process reduces the carbon footprint relative to gasoline by 60–80% according to peer-reviewed published work from Georgia Tech. Department of Energy).

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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Hyundai, which announced this May that it would build its first-ever dedicated EV plant in the state of Georgia and, to capitalize on the North American final assembly requirement in the newly-passed IRA, just revealed it was mulling moving the groundbreaking on the facility from the original target of 2023 to before the end of this year. . $3