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Blazer EV price cut, Dodge electric muscle, Rivian R2 and R3: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Which major battery supplier has 9-minute-charging solid-state cells and a 20-year EV battery in its sights? The Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX, both based on GM’s Ultium battery and propulsion platform and assembled by GM, will both qualify for the full $7,500 EV tax credit , the brands confirmed this week.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Cars That Think

In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through the Northwest Passage, connecting Iceland to Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, and finally Japan. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland.

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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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Cal Energy Commission adopts report outlining how state transforming transportation system to meet climate goals

Green Car Congress

The PEV market continues to grow in California with 20 models of full battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles offered by almost every automobile manufacturer to California consumers. Integrating EVs with the grid. Greater attention to vehicle and electric grid integration will be needed as well.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

public charging outlets per ZEV, placing it ahead of only New Jersey and Alaska for availability of infrastructure. from the year before, with solar jumping 40.3% Wind generated 37% of the state’s renewable electricity, and for the first time, solar (27%) overtook geothermal (20%) as the second-largest source of renewable generation.

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Electrifying School Buses

Noodoe

Also, the majority of these vehicles sit unused during the summer when electricity demands are often the highest and take the greatest toll on the power grid. This makes them perfect targets for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration. . IC Bus creates buses with some of the largest batteries in the industry.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Smart Grid City will use a realtime high-speed two-way communication throughout the distribution grid.

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