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Charlotte Douglas International Airport to buy 5 Proterra electric buses; 9th airport

Green Car Congress

Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) has agreed to purchase five 35-foot Proterra Catalyst E2 electric buses and five 125 kW Proterra plug-in charging systems.

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Frito-Lay buying 100 more Smith Electric Vehicle trucks in 2012; natural gas coming for tractor fleet

Green Car Congress

The CNG vehicles will be used at seven Frito-Lay North America distribution centers, including: Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Irving, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Beloit, WI; Frankfort, IN; Charlotte, NC; and Casa Grande, AZ. The company piloted 18 CNG vehicles to prepare for the roll-out.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley argues a new ‘anxiety’ plagues consumers from EVs

Teslarati

” The comments came in response to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s recent four-day, 600-mile journey from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, with a fleet of legacy automaker electric vehicles. . “We’re going into the mass consumers who have a lot of charging anxiety.”

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Volvo 740 GLE with 403,348 miles

The Truth About Cars

I found this wagon in the Pull-a-Part in Charlotte, North Carolina , which I visited on the way to work at the 24 Hours of Lemons race in South Carolina. Meanwhile, American Volvo shoppers in 1988 could buy a new 240 DL wagon with the same powertrain for $17,620 ($47,565 after inflation). This car has a naturally-aspirated 2.3-liter

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The approval from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality , which was announced by the company on Monday and is conditional on the posting of a USD 1 million reclamation bond, removes one major hurdle to Piedmont’s plans to tap a large lithium deposit just outside Charlotte. to close at USD 14.68

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Ford: boomers leading trend to compact utility vehicles

Green Car Congress

The largest demographic buying small utility vehicles such as the Ford Escape are people between the ages of 55 and 64, according to Polk. Escape is over-indexing in four cities particularly attractive to baby boomers: Miami, up 53%; Orlando, up 34%; Phoenix, up 27%; and Charlotte, N.C., cubic feet of passenger volume—about a 21.4%

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

Cars That Think

For more details on the Create 3, we spoke with Charlotte Redman, iRobot's product manager, and Steven Shamlian, principal electrical engineer. Charlotte Redman: Part of iRobot’s DNA is STEM education. IEEE Spectrum: Why is the Create important to iRobot? That's my suspicion.

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