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Nestlé Waters North America adds 155 new medium-duty propane autogas trucks to delivery fleet

Green Car Congress

Nestlé Waters North America is adding more than 150 medium-duty beverage delivery trucks fueled by propane autogas. Over the vehicles’ lifetime, the 155 Ford F-650 trucks will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 24.6 million pounds. These units will be deployed beginning in April. Milwaukee and Fort Lauderdale.

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Electric pickup buyers hold multiple reservations as delivery date uncertainty looms: survey

Teslarati

A new survey from Recurrent shows that “about 89% of Tesla Cybertruck reservations overlap with another truck pre-order, and 100% of Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado reservations also pre-ordered another vehicle on this list. Of course, the Tesla Cybertruck, with its seemingly infinite production delays , comes to mind here.

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Ford reportedly eliminates lease-to-buy option on electric vehicles

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As of June 15, 2022, Ford will no longer offer the opportunity to purchase its three all-electric vehicles, the F-150 Lightning, Mustang Mach-E, and E-Transit Van, for new leases. Ford informed dealers in a letter that it was discontinuing the end-of-lease purchase option for the E-Transit van, Mustang Mach-E, and F-150 Lightning.

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Tesla Police Cruiser fleet rejected by department despite numerous success stories

Teslarati

A potential fleet of Tesla Police Cruisers was rejected by Spokane, Washington’s Police Department after an evaluation of the all-electric Model Y crossover did not convince some members that the vehicle would be effective for law enforcement. “Things continue to evolve. There’s better and better options,” Beggs said.

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The technology behind Ford’s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

Green Car Congress

Aluminum will be very product specific; on the [new] F-150, its absolutely the right solution. The new MMLV components are being integrated in series-production vehicles to create full vehicles and subassemblies for testing. Our Mach II design is still 150 kilos fat right now, and we’ve done everything we can think of.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

EV Adoption

I reached out to the Cadillac PR team to see if they had any insight as to whether the LYRIQ will be classified as an SUV or station wagon and received this response: “I heard back from the team (engineering) and it is too soon to speculate what it means for future products.” BEVs: Bolt EV Bolt EUV F-150 Lightning Cadillac LYRIQ.