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Finalist for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018: Nissan Leaf

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If any electric car aside from the Tesla Model 3 can be called "long-awaited," it would be the redesigned 2018 Nissan Leaf. First thought to arrive as a 2016 model, it was widely assumed to be a 2017 to go head-to-head with the 238-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV launched last December.

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Hamburger Hochbahn to buy up to 530 electric buses from Daimler, MAN and Solaris

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Hamburger Hochbahn AG received the first series-production model of the fully electric driven Mercedes-Benz eCitaro in November 2018 as part of an order for 20 eCitaro units. In the tender, the manufacturers must ensure a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles) for their vehicles. An important criterion for the vehicles is range.

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One of these 3 vehicles will be Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2018

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By far the most attention and hype has been focused on the Tesla Model 3, the Silicon Valley carmaker's lower-priced and much higher-volume vehicle, with more than 200 miles of range for a starting.

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Adamas Intelligence: passenger EV battery capacity deployed in China up 439% YoY in January 2019 to 3.27 GWh

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GWh of passenger EV battery capacity was deployed in China, an increase of 439% over January 2018 levels, inferring from a model-by-model build-up using Adamas Intelligence’s ‘EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker’. which offers a driving range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) per charge.

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Government of Canada to buy Trans Mountain Pipeline System and Expansion Project for C$4.5B, resume planing and construction

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The 1,150-km (714-mile) Trans Mountain pipeline system (TMPL) is the only pipeline system in North America that transports both crude oil from the oil sands and refined products to the west coast. The Government of Canada will purchase Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline system and the expansion project (TMEP) for C$4.5 billion (US$3.46

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Volkswagen Group and bp to partner to expand ultra-fast electric vehicle charging across Europe

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Partnering with Volkswagen Group - one of the world’s great automotive companies - we intend to address a key concern for people considering buying an EV: range anxiety. In 2018, bp acquired UK-based Chargemaster and renamed it to bp Chargemaster, and subsequently, in December 2020, to bp pulse.).

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Alaska Airlines to buy sustainable biofuel from Hawai`i BioEnergy

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Hawai`i BioEnergy will ramp up production of the sustainable fuels within five years of regulatory approval, allowing Alaska Airlines to begin procuring sustainable jet fuel for its Hawai`i flights possibly as soon as fall 2018. Alaska Airlines has reduced its carbon footprint intensity by 30% (measured by revenue passenger miles) since 2004.

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