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Oakland school district now has a 100% electric, V2G-capable school bus fleet – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

In May, the Oakland Unified school district announced the conversion of its entire school bus fleet to EVs. Electric school buses with V2G provide students with cleaner, fume-free transportation and allow us to send untapped energy from the bus batteries back to the grid, creating an enormous impact on grid resilience.

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Ford opens E-Transit Registration site for commercial customers; new pricing

Green Car Congress

It will be built alongside the Transit at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. Preliminary conversations with commercial customers indicate a healthy mix for demand across all eight configurations, with roughly 40% leaning toward high-roof vans and 60% pointing to medium-roof, low-roof, cutaway and chassis cab versions.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

Louis, Missouri chapter. His goal was to get 100,000 or more DIY conversion projects going,” agreed GEVA member Daniel Howard. “He Of course, this was while he was manufacturing and distributing parts for conversions.”. Jack Rikard on EVTV. That was his motto.” I can attest to the fact that his system worked.”

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. A history that goes back GEVA has a history that very much involves the aforementioned conversions. I’d done a conversion with lead acid batteries in 1982 on a 1971 VW Beetle,” Garver continued. “I’d Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans

Charged EVs

In January, Stellantis said its Ram truck brand would start selling the ProMaster EV, a battery-electric model of the ProMaster van that it restyled and updated for 2023. It’s long been known that urban and suburban deliveries are one of the best duty cycles for battery-electric vehicles. Got all that?

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. A history that goes back GEVA has a history that very much involves the aforementioned conversions. I’d done a conversion with lead acid batteries in 1982 on a 1971 VW Beetle,” Garver continued. “I’d Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

Green Car Congress

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. per gallon.

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