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JANUARY 22, 2024

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Fast forward to 2008 and Wallace started taking advantage of the internet’s ability to reach vast amounts of people simultaneously. EVs require less maintenance and therefore have lower maintenance costs. Wallace came up with the idea to give the earth one day free from fossil fuel emissions. They are less costly to drive at $1.24

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

—Joachim Post, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. Based on current market assumptions, costs can be reduced by up to 50 percent, compared to the current fifth generation. The BMW Group will present a demonstrator vehicle with this technology on board well before 2025.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Canadian government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits commensurate with the cost, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). So for the majority, rebates are not changing behavior—they are subsidizing planned purchases.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

between 2010 and 2011 and 214% between 2008 and 2011. At the same time, fuel cell durability has doubled, expensive platinum content has been reduced by a factor of five, and the cost of fuel cells has fallen 80% since 2002. Total, worldwide fuel cell shipments grew 37.5% up and auxiliary power unit applications.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Using soybean oil as its primary feedstock, the facility, which opened in 2008, produces 40 million gallons of biodiesel and 30 million pounds of food-grade glycerin annually. Co-locating the biodiesel plant next to a soybean crushing facility reduces cost, saves time and money while working with three great partners. —Dale R.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In addition, PennDOT will enter into a CNG supply contract with the selected partner as well as purchase agreements with each of the transit agencies. Each fueling site must provide access to CNG for public transit and other CNG vehicles alike. In 2013, Pennsylvania became the second-largest natural gas producing state in the nation.

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MAY 26, 2018

These proposed amounts are expected to fund up to 95% of the cost of a battery-electric school bus; to fund the incremental costs of a zero-emission transit bus above the typical Federal Transit Administration funding; and to fund a large portion of the incremental costs for a battery-electric shuttle bus. 63 million in reserve.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The University anticipates the systems will save it up to $1,700 a year each in fuel and maintenance costs. Lightning Hybrids has been working on the hydraulic hybrid system, made and assembled in Loveland, since September 2008. Colorado State has selected Lightning Hybrids LLC ( earlier post ) to provide the systems.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

port fuel injected (PFI) gasoline—during periods of higher fuel costs. Regardless of the mechanism, they concluded, the higher resale prices justify the higher capital cost for the diesel and hybrid passenger cars and for larger diesel trucks on a total cost of ownership basis. But that’s only one element of the equation.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The two automakers signed a “master agreement” for platform and software collaboration, and the two will start jointly sourcing platforms and vehicle parts to help leverage scale while cutting costs, Automotive News Europe reports. The purchase was completed in December. VW invested around €1 billion ($1.08

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AUGUST 14, 2012

In March 2008, EPA finalized a three part program significantly to reduce emissions from diesel locomotives of all types: line-haul, switch, and passenger rail. In 2008, EPA estimated the social cost of the new program (rail and marine) will be approximately $740 million in 2030. Earlier post.)

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CN EV Post

MAY 5, 2023

Plua , when Warren /Charlie first invested back in 2008 BYD was a more nuts and bolts company that they could actually understand. In April 2013, John bought TSLA at a split-adjusted cost of $3.10 /share. His LEAST profitable purchase has brought him an 8.5 Of course they'll be loyal and hang on to such a productive company.

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MARCH 14, 2017

In 2007, with support from Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Jay Whitacre began researching low-cost electrochemical approaches to bulk energy storage. In 2008 he produced the first functioning Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) battery. Supported by VC funding, Aquion spun out of CMU in 2009. Whitacre, J. Shanbhag, S., Mohamed, A., Polonsky, A.,

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JUNE 14, 2016

Streamlined modular engineering improves initial specification and cost-effectiveness, quicker delivery time and more reliable operation with extended service intervals. Clean Energy Compression facilities meets all ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System requirements. The new compressor features: Standardized and modular construction.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It seems the union liked what the automaker had to say regarding the right to strike over plant closures and cost-of-living adjustments. The worst of this took place in the run-up to the 2008 automotive bailout when the industry was financially crippled and laying off employees in large numbers.&

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

The 200 unit purchase is Azure’s largest revenue order to date and also the highest volume Balance Hybrid Electric order since the product launched in the summer of 2008. The drive train also offers a significant reduction in maintenance costs versus conventionally equipped competitors. Purolator Courier Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

AT&T began deploying fleet AFVs in 2008 as part of an overall commitment to minimize its environmental impact while operating more efficiently. Through 2013, AT&T anticipates it will purchase approximately 8,000 CNG vehicles at an anticipated cost of $350 million.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

billion will fund the land purchase and construction of the first phase of the project, which likely will likely take nearly three years, [president and CEO, John] Baardson said. Each of the two following phases will cost roughly $2 billion. Naphtha is a low-octane gasoline used as a feedstock in the chemical industry.

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MAY 26, 2015

Ballard Power Systems has received a purchase order from Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. for the next phase of Technology Solutions project work related to the development of a breakthrough catalyst technology intended to reduce manufacturing cost of certain proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells.

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MAY 13, 2009

This initiative follows a 2008 incentive program that put into service more than 2,200 trucks that currently meet or exceed 2007 US EPA emission standards. Since the launch of the Clean Truck Program on 1 October 2008, pollution at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex has been reduced by more than 23%, according to the Commission.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If we need to certify each model the cost will be huge.” And even if France stops using its video-processing algorithms in public places after the Olympics law expires, other countries may purchase it from French companies for their domestic use. “In my opinion, we have to certify the training pipeline,” Ferbach says.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

This would be some 410,000 units off the 2008 total and almost 685,000 units down on 2007. Alternatively fuelled vehicle (AFV) demand showed a particularly sharp decline, down 47.4%, in part reflecting strong growth in 2008. 1,500 to purchase a new car with Euro 4 as minimum engine specification. 1,000 to purchase a car.

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Teslarati

MAY 13, 2021

Yesterday, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be eliminating the ability to purchase vehicles with Bitcoin after citing environmental challenges. “Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels, and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at great cost to the environment.”

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MAY 22, 2013

This program was signed into law by President Bush in 2008 and then awarded under the Obama administration in the years that followed. Elon Musk, Tesla’s Chief Executive Officer and cofounder, purchased $100 million of common equity, the least secure portion of the offering.

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APRIL 12, 2012

The awards are expected to support the purchase of more than 125 new natural gas vehicles; funding comes from the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. These awards help to pay the difference between the cost of conventional gas- or diesel-powered vehicles and new ones that use propane or natural gas.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Many companies are grappling with the need to both cut costs and reduce carbon emissions, and their vehicle fleets represent a significant portion of this challenge. Costs remain an issue, though, because the trucks will require much larger capacity batteries, thereby increasing the total vehicle costs. Clint Wheelock.

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MAY 28, 2010

Shell’s activities in US tight gas began in 2001, with acreage purchases in the Pinedale Anticline in Wyoming, where the use of multi-well production pads and reservoir fracturing technology has led to rapid production growth, a competitive cost structure, and reduced environmental footprint, according to the company. billion boe).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Credit: ACS, Boot 2008. Boot and his colleagues discussed the potential role of cyclic oxygenates in a 2008 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. In their 2008 paper, Boot et al. Klein-Douwel, and Nico Dam (2008) Cyclic Oxygenates: A New Class of Second-Generation Biofuels for Diesel Engines?

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APRIL 9, 2010

The Inforum LIFT model is a detailed economic forecasting model, which captures, among other things, the effects of purchases and sales between industries. Because of the higher levels of income and GDP resulting from the policies, the US federal budget deficit would improve by a cumulative (2010 to 2030) $336 billion, net of policy costs.

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

A credit trading system will provide opportunities to control costs by allowing a supplier to purchase credits from low carbon fuels and average them with higher carbon fuels delivered to customers.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Norway leads electric vehicle (EV) adoption, boasting the highest share of new EV purchases worldwide. This approach of virtually redesigning the tax structure within the auto industry also stands out amongst other countries, which mainly rely on direct subsidies to incentivize EV purchases over internal combustion engine cars.

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MARCH 13, 2009

As part of its report on fourth quarter and year-end 2008 results, Ener1 outlined its EnerDel unit’s customer programs underway for its lithium-ion battery technology in applications spanning hybrids, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and full electric vehicles. Overall, Ener1 reported 2008 revenues of $6.8 Ener1 purchased $21.3

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MARCH 19, 2015

The order has operational directives for building and fleet management, electricity generation, water use, waste management and purchasing. Through more efficient Federal operations, agency direct greenhouse gas emissions can be cut by at least 40% over the next decade, the order suggests.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The Valero purchase agreement provides for a purchase price of $280 million, plus the value of inventory and certain pre-paid expenses, subject to certain customary adjustments. VeraSun hedged its corn purchases during the price spike in the summer of 2008 when cost per bushel had soared to nearly $8.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

ConocoPhillips suspended the project in fall 2008 due to the deteriorating economy and a loss of federal tax credits. Earlier this year, Valero purchased six ethanol plants from bankrupt VeraSun Energy and has the approval to purchase two more. In 2007, ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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