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Tesla has secured a massive new building in Illinois

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Tesla has secured a long-term lease on a massive new building located in Pontoon Beach, Illinois, near St. It’s not clear what the building will be used for, but it’s likely going to be a giant parts distribution center. The post Tesla has secured a massive new building in Illinois appeared first on Electrek.

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Anheuser-Busch completes first zero-emission beer delivery; BYD and Nikola

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Anheuser-Busch, in partnership with Nikola Motor Company and BYD Motors LLC, completed its first Zero-Emission Beer Delivery in its hometown of St. Lohr Distributors then delivered the beer to the Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues, on a BYD electric truck. The 21 BYD electric trucks as well as a 958.5

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Production of 100th GILLIG battery-electric bus

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The milestone bus will be delivered to Metro Transit in St. Louis, Missouri this month. The bus builds upon the legacy of excellence and proven transit performance of the more than 27,000 GILLIG buses in service throughout the United States today. Earlier post.)

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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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ICL breaks ground on $400M LFP battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis

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ICL, a global specialty minerals company, celebrated the groundbreaking of its battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis, which is expected to be the first large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) facility in the US. The new plant will be located on ICL’s existing Carondelet campus in St.

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Volvo Trucks Customer QCD orders 30 more VNR Electric trucks for Southern California fleet

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To bolster the environmental and economic benefits of the project further, as well as increase resiliency, QCD has partnered with Scale Microgrid Solutions to build a clean energy microgrid to power its La Puente’s battery-electric fleet and distribution center. Located in the St.

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UPS enters into RNG supply agreements with Kinetrex and TruStar; up to 80M gallon equivalents

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The RNG will be used to fuel UPS’s LNG-powered trucks in Chicago, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Toledo. These two new agreements build on a prior RNG contract in which UPS agreed to purchase 170 million gallons of RNG, its biggest commitment to date. The Kinetrex Energy contract will supply UPS with up to 52.5

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