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GM’s Maven and Uber to pilot flexible car-sharing offer

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Insurance coverage is included in the cost of every lease for a weekly price of $179 plus taxes and fees. In nine months, Maven has grown to nine markets: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., with more on the way.

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Nestlé Waters North America adds 155 new medium-duty propane autogas trucks to delivery fleet

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The new medium-duty delivery trucks, added to the company’s existing autogas fleet of 30 Ford trucks of the same model, will also help the company save on maintenance and fuel costs. Propane autogas, a domestically produced fuel, costs the company an average of $1 per gallon, versus their $2 per gallon cost of diesel.

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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. From Reuters : Baltimore port's private and public terminals handled 847,158 autos and light trucks in 2023, the most of any U.S.

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SUPERVALU unveils new natural gas powered truck fleet and fill station

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In addition to the environmental benefits, the new CNG fleet and fast-fill station is expected to reduce SUPERVALU’s operating costs given the lower cost of compressed natural gas. and Baltimore. The fill station is the first of two Trillium stations planned in the Richmond, Va.,

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Advanced Biofuels USA receives USDA grant for feasibility study of eastern shore energy beet-to-jetfuel project

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Unique Maryland-based innovations of the bio-jetfuel project include non-food, low nutrient input energy beets developed by Plant Sensory Systems, LLC of Baltimore and a proprietary enzyme conversion system that utilizes the entire biomass of the energy beet root, including biomass ignored during conventional sugar production.

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

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BETHE projects will work to deliver higher-maturity, lower-cost fusion options via three research categories: Concept Development to advance the performance of inherently lower-cost but less-mature fusion concepts; Component Technology Development that could significantly reduce the capital cost of higher-cost, more-mature fusion concepts; and.

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PJM/Better Place study finds unmanaged charging of 1M electric cars could add $750M in annual wholesale energy costs; need for CNO-managed smart charging

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The study considered a distribution of 1 million EVs in the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area and modeled the impact of charging the EV batteries in three scenarios: unmanaged charging; consumer-price-incentivized charging; and managed charging via a Central Network Operator (CNO). The two-tier pricing scenario, modeled on the pilot EV.

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