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FTA LoNo grant recipients to purchase 35 Proterra electric transit buses

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The 2016 LoNo grant winners will use their funds, a total of $22.8 million, to purchase 35 Catalyst buses, bringing Proterra’s total number of firm orders to 287 vehicles from 38 cities across the United States. Delaware Transit Corporation, six 35' Catalyst XR buses. With more than 2.4 With more than 2.4

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Description. City of Fairfield. 746,456.

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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

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California conducted a similar review in 2016 for vehicle standards through the 2025 model year and found the standards achievable, cost-effective and appropriate. In the 2019 budget, the Government of Canada announced rebates of up to $5,000 for consumers on the purchase of zero-emission vehicles.

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Elon Musk makes opening remarks in SolarCity trial, defends Tesla’s $2.6B acquisition

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Elon Musk has made his opening remarks in a Wilmington, Delaware, courthouse on Monday morning, defending Tesla’s $2.6 The deal took place in 2016 and gave Tesla full possession of the solar panel maker, a move that some Tesla shareholders were not keen on, as some are alleging the move was a bailout of SolarCity.

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Tesla’s Chief Accounting Officer sells over 4,450 shares for nearly $3M

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The purpose is to make the public aware of the “insider’s various transactions in company securities, including the amount purchased or sold and the price per share,” the SEC writes. Previously, he was the Vice President and Corporate Controller for SolarCity, the solar panel manufacturer that Tesla absorbed in 2016 for $2.6

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Tesla’s $2.6bn SolarCity acquisition lawsuit ruled in favor of Elon Musk

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A lawsuit between Tesla Shareholders and Elon Musk ended on Wednesday with a Delaware court ruling in favor of CEO Elon Musk. Shareholders believed Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 was a bailout of a company owned by two of Musk’s cousins, which was unfair to them.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016.

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