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Bollinger Motors building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric chassis cabs

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Bollinger Motors has begun building design validation pilots of its B4 all-electric Class 4 chassis cabs for testing and demonstration. The Bollinger B4 will be eligible nationwide for a federal purchasing incentive of 30% of the cost of the vehicle, up to a total $40,000, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Li Auto to build charging stations at 'NIO pace', report says

CN EV Post

Li Auto is aiming to build about 300 super-fast charging stations this year, and NIO also plans to add 10,000 new charging piles this year, according to local media. LI.US | 2015.HK By 2025, Li Auto will have built a total of 3,000 supercharging stations, at a total cost of 10 billion yuan ($1.44

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Study finds air pollution and GHG costs of crude-by-rail nearly 2x pipeline costs; much larger than spill and accidents costs

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude by rail are nearly twice as large as those for oil pipelines. Their estimations were also based on The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s 2015 study.

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Vigorously building charging piles is an inevitable choice for the world’s new energy road

Setec Powerr

In 2015, the number of public charging piles in China was less than 50,000. Recently, the British government has also announced that it will invest 50 million pounds to help individuals and enterprises build charging piles. Audi, one of the giants in the automotive industry, is even richer in the project of building charging piles.

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Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

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Of that $37 billion, health costs added up to $24 billion in 2015; the $24 billion represents the monetized sum of harmful emissions responsible for an estimated 220,000 work-loss days, more than 109,000 asthma exacerbations, hundreds of thousands of other respiratory impacts, and 2,580 premature deaths. New York: $7.9 New Jersey: $4.6

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Vega Biofuels’ pilot torrefaction plant to use new process to lower costs of biomass feedstock; site remediation biomass

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Vega Biofuels announced that its Joint Venture (JV) partner, Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP) has developed a new and patent-pending process that significantly reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock for the company’s Allendale, SC pilot torrefaction plant by using site remediation biomass.

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Toyota opens CES with strong affirmation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; “staggering” rate of cost reduction; FCV on sale in US in 2015

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The first is building the vehicle at a reasonable price for many people. We’re doing a good job with both and we will launch in 2015. In those 11 years—and more than a million miles—it has significantly reduced the cost of building a fuel cell powertrain. Yes, there are significant challenges.

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