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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

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BMW is providing the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis with ten battery-electric, BMW i3 models for 18 months. Eight of the pre-owned vehicles will be available soon for UC Davis faculty and staff to rent through the campus’s UC Drive program, which is managed by the Fleet Services department.

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SAIC demonstrating autonomous electric shuttle at UC Davis; data collection on behavioral response

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San Jose-based Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation’s (SAIC) Innovation Center is demonstrating its automated, all-electric shuttle around a defined loop of the solar-panel-lined West Village community as part of an agreement between the auto company and UC Davis. —Maxwell Huang, president of SAIC USA and SAIC IC/VC.

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Chevron and Cummins announce strategic collaboration on hydrogen

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Chevron USA, through its Chevron Products Company division, and Cummins announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative energy sources. —Amy Davis, vice president and president of New Power at Cummins.

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UC Davis’s 6 New Flyer Battery-Electric Xcelsior CHARGE® Buses; Spurs Zero-Emission Evolution

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Cloud, Minnesota, USA – July 15, 2021: (TSX: NFI) New Flyer of America Inc. (“New The post UC Davis’s 6 New Flyer Battery-Electric Xcelsior CHARGE® Buses; Spurs Zero-Emission Evolution appeared first on EV Obsession. New Flyer”), a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (“NFI”),

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. Davis was a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and SPIE , the international society for optics and photonics.

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EPA SmartWay honors 44 freight carriers for exceptional supply chain efficiency

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Davis Transfer Co. DHL Express USA. Cargo Transporters. Challenger Motor Freight Inc. Convoy Systems LLC. CRST Expedited, Inc. Customer Service Quality Transportation. Curtis Trucking, Inc. Dedicated Transport LLC. Doug Andrus Distributing LLC. Halvor Lines, Inc. Heritage Transport, LLC. High Country Transportation, Inc.

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California Energy Commission awards $24.9M to 9 medium- and heavy-duty advanced truck demo projects

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Hydrogenics USA, Inc. Hydrogenics USA, Inc. The Regents of the University of California (Davis); Demonstration of Retrofitted All- Electric Transit Bus at UC Davis. Advanced Battery-Electric Port Vehicles. Transportation Power, Inc. Heavy-Duty Electric Refuse Trucks. Motiv Power Systems.