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

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City and County of Honolulu. Honolulu will receive funding for Gillig battery electric buses with depot chargers in the Honolulu area as their inaugural project to transition their fleet to zero emission. The new buses will be used on routes that connect residents to employment opportunities. City of Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

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At Portland International Airport, in Oregon, there’s a movie theater screening short films by creators from the Pacific Northwest ( located after security in Concourse C). People are looking for that connection to the outdoors prior to spending however long they’re going to be on an aircraft,” he said. “It At Daniel K.

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Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

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This practice in which a vessel at berth connects to a source of electricity on the shore is called “cold-ironing”, shore power or Alternative Maritime Power (AMP). Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seattle, Wash. At ports in Oregon and Washington, grid-based cold ironing infrastructure is limited or nonexistent. Los Angeles, Calif.;

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