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Winnebago, Motiv unveil all-electric healthcare vehicles

Green Car Congress

The Mobile Lung Unit features: The world’s first portable, battery-powered, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner, BodyTom, featuring an innovative internal drive system that can be easily transported. Based on the average cost of fuel in the US, the eMLU is expected to save $150,000-$200,000 in combined diesel fuel and maintenance savings.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. “DUSST”: NREL’s Low Maintenance Soiling Station, $50,000 Atonometrics Inc., MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Madison, Wis. Amesbury, Mass.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

Like many of the residents that come to our EV Ride & Drive events or email me for advice on what EV to buy, I appreciate the many advantages EVs have over internal combustion engine-powered ones. We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern.

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Biden opposes Nippon Steel takeover of US Steel – ET Auto

Baua Electric

” He added that the “Japan-US alliance is stronger than ever” and that the nations would continue to cooperate in many areas including the “maintenance and strengthening of free and open economic order based on rules.” Biden has been wooing unions as he competes with Trump for working-class voters.

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