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EnerDel, ITOCHU Announce Second Smart Grid Battery Storage Project

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It is the second such venture between the two companies, following the announcement last month that they are teaming up with Mazda Motor Corporation on a similar system using vehicles converted to electric drive using a platform designed and built by EnerDel and its partner THINK, which will be stationed at a Family Mart convenience store.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is. It’s called Electric Island.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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Consumers tell us they are interested in sharing the costs of vehicle ownership, and this program will help us understand how much that extends to customers who are financing a Ford vehicle. The bike folds and stores inside any Ford vehicle, where it can be charged while stowed. It runs through November. Earlier post.).

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BMW’s ReachNow car sharing expands to Brooklyn, launches pilot programs for new mobility services

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The expansion to Brooklyn marks the company’s first expansion beyond the West Coast of the United States; the service currently operates in Seattle and Portland. Share enables MINI owners to rent their vehicles via ReachNow when they don’t need access to it, helping to offset the cost of car ownership.

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SSB Flex mobility service launches in Stuttgart on 1 June

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Anyone can use SSB Flex: they simply need to download the SSB Flex app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store onto their smartphone. The moovel Group, with locations in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin, and Portland, USA, serves over 4.5 Customers can save their personal information and payment details in the app.

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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, the Sandia team said, is because their multi-megawatt power requirements and potentially long run times would necessitate multiple MW-class fuel cell units and impractically-large stores of hydrogen. Portland, Ore.; Those costs can run up to $5-10 million or more per berth, the study found. Los Angeles, Calif.;

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EV Chargers for All!

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There were two Level 2 charging stations about six blocks away in a grocery store parking lot, but that was not a convenient or reliable option. With new EVs costing on average $61,488 at the end of 2022 and being scarcely affordable for the average American family, they are out of reach for the average rental household.