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Raleigh-Durham Airport to buy 4 Proterra electric buses and charging infrastructure

Green Car Congress

The Raleigh-Durham Airport (RDU) Authority has approved the purchase of four Proterra Catalyst E2 zero-emissions battery-electric transit buses and related charging infrastructure. Scheduled to be placed in service in early 2019, the buses will be designed and built at Proterra’s Greenville, S.C. manufacturing facility.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. People could buy the machines at ComputerLand , a popular retail chain in the United States.

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BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs

Charged EVs

SparkCharge co-founder and CEO Joshua Aviv spoke with Charged back in 2019, when the Roadie was in pre-production, and the company was working with prototypes. Do I buy the equipment? Josh : You can buy, lease, or finance the equipment from us. Now SparkCharge has deployed its system with the first wave of customers.