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Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has Major Implications for Automotive Sector

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A cargo container ship exiting the Port of Baltimore collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning. The Port of Baltimore is responsible for moving all kinds of goods. Until the necessary clean up has been concluded, no container ships will be able to use the port. In fact, it’s typically the U.S.

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DOE selects 15 projects for $32M to advance lower-cost fusion concepts; ARPA-E BETHE

Green Car Congress

These projects will work to develop timely, commercially viable fusion energy, with the goal to increase the number and performance levels of lower-cost fusion concepts. However, there remains a need to lower the costs of fusion development and accelerate its development timeline to have appreciable impact. Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Hyundai Kona

Clean Fleet Report

Hyundai invited automotive journalists to Baltimore, Maryland, to drive the gasoline versions, which are in dealers now. Clean Fleet Report will write a much more detailed Road Test review after getting in the Kona for more than a couple hours. The post Flash Drive: 2024 Hyundai Kona first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

Plug-in Partner Coalition members include: Alliance to Save Energy, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Clean Air Coalition, California Cars Initiative, and The Institute for Environmental Research and Education. EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January

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How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America?

EV Adoption

Add up all of those costs and you are looking at a cost of from $40,000 for a 50 kW DC fast charger to more than $400,000 for a 350 kW DC fast charger. These are the costs per charger. The more DC fast chargers installed per site, the lower the per charger cost due to the high cost of additional power and construction.

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