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A $2-3 billion battery factory for electric trucks is headed to Mississippi

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Daimler Trucks, Accelera by Cummins, and truck maker PACCAR will build a huge battery cell factory for electric trucks in Mississippi. The companies have selected Marshall County, Mississippi, southeast of Memphis, for the joint venture’s factory, which will localize battery cell production for commercial electric trucks.

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Waffle House is getting NEVI DC fast chargers in Tennessee

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Out of 167 applications, Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), in cooperation with Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), threw support behind EnviroSpark’s plan to install DC fast chargers at the Waffle House at 9780 US Highway 64, northeast of Memphis. Get started here. –ad*

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Ford to build new EV and battery plants in Tennessee & Kentucky; $11.4B total investment in two mega-sites; 129 GWh/year total

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Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

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Outlining 2009 "Fun Run in the Sun" with Xtreme BugE -- determining name, setting up committee with co-chairs, settling on date, budget projections, routing, solar contacts, etc E. DPS is building commercial battery packs from smart universal battery modules ("UBM(TM)") as building block. operating range).

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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The Crescent Corridor is a 2,500-mile (4,023-km) rail network supporting the supply chain from Memphis and New Orleans to New Jersey. These include straightening curves, adding signals, building passing lanes and double tracks, constructing and expanding terminals, and running more efficient trains. 25 MWh PowerCube. Earlier post.)

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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Electric Power Research Institute (Drexel University, University of Memphis, Evapco, WorleyParsons, and Maulbetsch Consulting). This low-cost structure, which would sit atop water channels, can reflect solar light while simultaneously dissipating heat to the atmosphere and cooling water below ambient temperatures, even in broad daylight.

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