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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well. When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. Rustam Kocher: It is.

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That Super Sexy Clean Tech Roundtable, Part II of a Greenius Exclusive

Creative Greenius

Bob Foster, Mayor, City of Long Beach (c) 2009 Joe Galliani. Mayor Bob Foster of Long Beach was billed as a straight shooter who tells it like it is and he turned out to be exactly that. Foster’s trying to get those ships to switch from their ultra cheap and dirty “Bunker fuel&# to distillate fuel.

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