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CARB approves updated “At-Berth” regulation, expanding efforts to cut pollution from ships in California ports

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The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation designed to reduce pollution further from ocean-going vessels while docked at California’s busiest ports. The rule builds on progress achieved by the At-Berth Regulation adopted in 2007.

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California ARB awards $9.5M to Porterville to deploy 10 GreenPower electric buses and charging infrastructure

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announced that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $9.5 The grant award is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing clean-air benefits to California neighborhoods, with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

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We partner with real estate developers, cities, and nonprofits to utilize government clean energy incentives, grants, and other sources of funding,” Peters explained. Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I

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FTA awarding $55M to 10 projects deploying battery-electric and fuel-cell buses

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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has selected 10 projects that will receive a share of $55 million in competitive grants that will help put a new generation of zero-emission buses on the road. Grants from the LoNo program help transit agencies integrate more of these advanced buses into their fleets.

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

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. New vehicles to be deployed include 55 CNG vehicles, 363 propane vehicles, 89 hybrid electric vehicles, and 56 neighborhood electric vehicles. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Many were covered in detail during a day of presentations and site visits for partners and media held this past August in Ontario, California.

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The EV Professor

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Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster. “My Too bad the cars were no longer available by then.” as the sixtieth vehicle that Tesla delivered to customers.