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UC Davis buys 6 NFI electric Xcelsior CHARGE buses using California state contract

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Unitrans, the University of California, Davis transit system, has purchased six Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. UC Davis utilized the California Department of General Services (DGS) contract for the procurement.

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Study: EVs cannot succeed without developing parallel supercharging networks

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These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. —Hemant Bhargava, a professor of technology management at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Bhargava, UC Davis Graduate School of Management; Jonas Boehm and Geoffrey G.

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First EVs in new car-sharing program with Envoy to roll out in Sacramento; 142 e-Golfs by early 2019; Sac-to-Zero

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By early 2019, Envoy will offer 142 Volkswagen e-Golf electric cars at 71 locations with Level 2 charging stations. A second car-sharing company, Gig, plans to arrive in Sacramento in 2019 with 260 electric vehicles that can be picked up by customers and dropped off anywhere within a 13-mile home zone.

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California crashes and traffic down by half during shelter-in-place for COVID-19, saving state $40M/day

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The reductions save the state an estimated $40 million per day—about $1 billion over the time period— according to an updated special report released from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis. The report was co-authored by David Waetjen in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy.

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Cummins provides 20MW PEM electrolyzer to Air Liquide for green hydrogen production

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—Amy Davis, Cummins Vice President and President of New Power, the company’s alternative power business. The HyLYZER PEM electrolyzer technology is the result of more than 20 years of development by Hydrogenics, a Canadian company that was acquired by Cummins in September of 2019, a company which Air Liquide retains a 19% stake.

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Xcel Energy, INL to use nuclear energy for clean hydrogen production; HTSE

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Commercial hydrogen production via low-temperature electrolysis will be demonstrated by a previously awarded project, which launched in September 2019. —Mark Ruth, a group manager with NREL’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center and lead author of the report.

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Cummins to open new fuel cell systems production facility in Germany; Alstom’s hydrogen trains

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—Amy Davis, President of New Power at Cummins. In September 2019, Cummins acquired the Hydrogenics Corporation, which provided Cummins with both PEM, alkaline fuel cells, and electrolyzers used to generate hydrogen.

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