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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state.

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Manhattan Beach, The South Bay’s Greenest City

Creative Greenius

Both the City Police and Fire chiefs are now driving city owned alternative fuel vehicles. The new city taxi franchise agreement calls for alternative fuel or high mileage vehicles to replace 25% of the fleet. They had insightful questions and they had presentations of their own to give. Climate Action Plan.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Unintended environmental consequences derived from developing alternative fuels should be considered (e.g. Further, the public sector can also adopt procurement rules that encourage EV-uptake in the private sector, such as weighting requirements towards electric for the providers of services such as taxis, couriers and freight. .