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Ford reportedly eliminates lease-to-buy option on electric vehicles

Teslarati

“The purchase of the BEV Lease is to aid in our goal of delivering carbon neutrality by 2050 by controlling the vehicle battery through its life, keeping it in the Ford network.” battery production.” battery production.” Ford confirmed to CarsDirect that its communication was legitimate.

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

Green Car Congress

The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses.

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EV Radar: December 2021

Noodoe

Fleets not only buy vehicles but (some) must sell them long before they’re out of commission. New South Wales has earmarked money to help cover the cost difference between buying gas-powered fleet vehicles and electric ones. Toyota Sets Up EV Battery Plant. New battery plant for Toyota coming in North Carolina.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

One of these materials is graphite, which is the main ingredient in EV battery anodes. One of these is Westwater Resources, which controls what it says is the second-biggest graphite deposit in the US (the biggest is in a remote region of Alaska). Today, over 75% of all the battery graphite comes from China.

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Ride1Up 700 series review: A classy Class-3 e-bike that doesn’t break the bank

Green Authority

The battery is rated for 30-50 miles of range, but using too much throttle can eat into your supply. Unfortunately, the 14ah battery pack is the largest available to fit this frame. But for anything longer, you might want to consider bringing a second charged battery to swap in on your journey. Hawaii and Alaska are $400.

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Tesla drops the price of its 2-hour Megapack variant by over $40,000

Teslarati

Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale energy storage systems have been deploying all over the world, and the company has recently reduced the price of one variant of the giant battery by tens of thousands of dollars. percent Four-Hour Duration Megapack Power & Energy: 979 kW / 3,916 kWh per Megapack Round Trip Efficiency: 93.7

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Our EV warrior

Electric Auto Association

Mexican border to the Canadian Yukon and into Alaska. But the situation changed at the border, where the Canadian officials “Looked into my trunk for prohibited food and found the battery,“ he said. I discovered that in British Columbia and the Yukon, and also Alaska, you can actually find electricity easier than gasoline.”

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