article thumbnail

Fort Worth buying four New Flyer electric buses for new zero-emission route

Green Car Congress

The Fort Worth Transportation Authority (Trinity Metro) has awarded New Flyer a contract for four heavy-duty, thirty-five-foot Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric buses. New Flyer Group has delivered nearly 130 buses to Fort Worth including buses from New Flyer, MCI, and ARBOC since 1990.

article thumbnail

LG opens its first EV charging equipment factory in the U.S.

Teslarati

According to a press release shared by the company on Monday, LG has opened the EV charger plant in Fort Worth, Texas, set to eventually have an annual capacity of over 10,000 units. The news also came alongside a ribbon-cutting event featuring LG executives, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, and other local officials.

article thumbnail

GM expands EV first responder training efforts in US and Canada

Green Car Congress

Following successful pilot events that have taken place in southeast Michigan, training and outreach events will expand across Michigan and in Fort Worth, Texas followed by metro New York City and Southern California later this summer.

GM 435
article thumbnail

This 408-MW solar farm will be one of the largest in Texas

Baua Electric

Photo: Primergy Solar Solar developer Primergy Solar has closed commitments for $588 million in debt financing for a 408-megawatt (MW) solar farm south of Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas. That’s because Texas has an enormous electricity demand.

Texas 52
article thumbnail

3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

Cars That Think

These updates will be prompted by all kinds of developments: sudden changes of weather; shifts in passenger loads at different vertiports, unforeseen no-fly zones due to public events on the ground, or accidents. As the helicopter was preparing to take off from Fort Worth for the first flight, at around 2 p.m.

Taxi 81
article thumbnail

31 Things to Do for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Baua Electric

Delta Air Lines has been advertising path-of-totality flights from Austin (sold out) and Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit. You’re experiencing the event in a sort of sterile environment,” Mr. Rao said. Southwest Airlines (which is running a sweepstakes to win a seat) also offers scheduled flights along the path.

Solar 52
article thumbnail

Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. FRC ] ANYmal is rated IP67 for water resistance, but this still terrifies me.