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California Energy Commission awards nearly $5M to encourage natural gas-powered buses and trucks

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million to help public and private fleet operators as well as individual consumers afford new alternative-fueled passenger vehicles and medium- and heavy-duty buses and trucks. Oakland) is awarded a total of $380,000 in incentives for 25 vehicles manufactured by Tiffany Coachworks, Perris, California. West Coast Bus Sales, Inc.

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

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Heavy-duty hydrogen projects, such as freight fleet or shuttle programs, in this or future plans. Electrify America identified the California metro areas expected to be most underserved and in need of charging infrastructure associated with forecasted EV sales growth and fleet size by 2020. The supplement adds a sixth: Fresno.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Both will be sold first in China, primarily to fleet users: the government, post office, utilities, and taxi companies, all of which will build central fast-charging facilities. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year.

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