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Frito-Lay buying 100 more Smith Electric Vehicle trucks in 2012; natural gas coming for tractor fleet

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PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division will purchase 100 Newton Series 2000 all-electric commercial vehicles in 2012 from Smith Electric Vehicles, bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. We are now in position to more quickly accelerate our strategy and grow the electric vehicle fleet.

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What You Need To Know About Pickup EVs

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You might still be on the fence about buying a heavy EV pickup, given some of the misconceptions about electric vehicles in general. necessary Electric trucks can do the same work as an ICE–some times more Whether or not you decide to buy an EV comes down to your personal (or if it’s a commercial vehicle) or business needs.

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MHI designs new bulk carrier enabling 25% reduction in CO2 emissions; ADM buying three

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As the first commercial application of the new design, MHI will provide its conceptual design and green technologies to three grain carriers to be built for Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM). The new MALS carriers will enable reductions in CO 2 emissions by about 25% compared with conventional averaged bulk carriers. MALS timeline.

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What to note about EV charger installation?

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However, the general level 3 chargers are mainly for commercial use and are very costly. So the total cost will be around $1000 to $2000. The demand for home charging will increase, and they will buy higher-level electric cars in the future, so they will choose to install high-power chargers.

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Avantium raises 30M to advance YXY technology for green chemicals and fuels; new bio-based polymer PEF

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Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials ( earlier post ), has raised €30 million (US$43.9 Part of the funding has been used to buy out shares held by DFJ Esprit, AlpInvest, Eastman, EDBI and Pfizer, aligning the company’s shareholder base with its strategy.

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SpaceX bests Boeing to become NASA’s largest for-profit vendor

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Saved by the infusion of resources, SpaceX successfully debuted Falcon 9 in June 2010 and began operational ISS cargo deliveries under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program in October 2012. Crew Dragon completed its first uncrewed orbital test flight in March 2019 and its first crewed test flight in May 2020.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Like many universities of the day, it did not concern itself with intellectual property, believing such matters to be confined to the commercial world.