article thumbnail

Saia LTL Freight signs LOI to purchase or lease up to 100 Nikola Tre battery-electric trucks

Green Car Congress

Nikola Corporation announced a collaboration with Saia LTL Freight, a less-than-truckload (LTL) company, to accelerate the implementation of heavy-duty electric transportation trucks. With headquarters in Johns Creek, Georgia, Saia LTL Freight operates 176 terminals across the country and employs more than 11,000 people.

Purchase 199
article thumbnail

Plug Power to build green hydrogen plant in Georgia

Green Car Congress

Plug Power plans to build a green hydrogen production plant in Camden County, Georgia, to serve customers across the southeastern United States. Plug Power has signed a Purchase Power Agreement with Okefenokee Rural Electric Membership Corporation to source the renewable electricity needed to power the plant.

Georgia 186
article thumbnail

Hyundai Motor Group signs MOU with SK On to secure EV battery supply for N America

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor Group plans to produce various EV models in the United States through Hyundai Motor Alabama Plant (HMMA), Kia Georgia Plant (KaGA), and Hyundai Motor Group New Plant (HMGMA). Meanwhile, SK On is currently operating its own EV battery factory in Georgia. million full electric vehicles annually by 2030.

Hyundai 199
article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Description. City of Fairfield. 746,456.

Purchase 191
article thumbnail

South Carolina becomes battery hotbed with $1.6 billion in investments

Teslarati

Albemarle’s massive South Carolina push comes amid a squeeze on lithium generally, with many corporations looking to enter the extraction and refining business in the coming years, including one prominent Albemarle customer, Tesla.

article thumbnail

Daimler Buses North America Sells Further 96 Orion VII Clean-Diesel and Hybrid Buses

Green Car Congress

In addition, the University of Georgia is purchasing four more Orion VII buses for its Campus Transit System, so that it will have a total of eight Orion VII clean-diesel buses in operation. The University of Georgia (UGA) has now ordered four more Orion VII transit buses.

article thumbnail

Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. Assuming you received your state complimentary from GM at purchase, you’d need just $6,400 ($13,074 adj.) Of those, 1,000 were the units purchased by Avis. Let me know.

Parts 115