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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

Napa Valley Transportation Authority will receive funding to purchase BYD 30' battery electric buses to replace buses in a comprehensive revitalization of Vine Transit's current revenue vehicle fleet. The new buses will be used on routes that connect residents to employment opportunities. New Jersey Transit.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

They wanted to buy one or two trucks and test them for several years, and startup companies couldn’t stay alive that long. I started bringing these vehicles to fleets in New York, New Jersey and California. They said, “No, no, we buy a lot of power from the utility. At the time, there were eleven OEMs.