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Knoxville contracts for 12 New Flyer electric buses with option for 14 more

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New Flyer of America announced that Knoxville Area Transit (KAT) has awarded New Flyer a contract for twelve zero-emission, battery-electric thirty five-foot heavy-duty transit buses, with options to purchase up to 13 additional zero-emission buses in thirty-five or forty-foot lengths throughout the remaining term of the five-year agreement.

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Industry Out of Phase With Supercomputers

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NNSA’s most powerful machine currently in operation is the Frontier computer , which began operation last year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Cray is building another exascale computer that will be deployed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Industry trends are worrying.

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Nikola Motor unveils prototype Class 8 fuel cell range-extended electric truck, plans for H2 fueling network

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There will be no purchase options available initially. Fitzgerald, an investor in NMC, will build the first 5,000 trucks, and continue building trucks in the future. Nikola Founder and CEO Trevor Milton said that the company will build a network of 364 hydrogen fueling stations to support the rollout of the trucks.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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Michigan Governor’s Gretchen Whitmer, for example, claimed that since she took office in 2019, 25,000 new auto jobs were added to the state through her leadership in leading “the future of mobility and electrification.” Subaru recently announced it will not build an EV factory in the U.S. because the wage it pays at its U.S.

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Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

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On Friday November 20 the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) which means the bill is now off to the Senate where we can expect the possibility of many changes to the current proposed legislation. According to CNBC , Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to pass the Build Back Better Act by Christmas.