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Antelope Valley Transit Authority buying two BYD electric buses with inductive charging system with $1.9M grant

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million grant arranged by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich to support an electric bus demonstration project in the Antelope Valley. The grant came from Proposition A local return funds and will cover the cost of both buses plus the charging system. The buses have been funded through a $1.9-million

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Chevron partners with Clean Energy On Adopt-A-Port initiative to supply renewable natural gas for port trucks

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on Adopt-a-Port, an initiative that provides truck operators serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) to reduce emissions. Chevron’s funding will allow truck operators to subsidize the cost of buying new RNG-powered trucks.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $2.5M for clean transportation projects

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City of Monterey Park (Los Angeles County) will receive $300,000 to upgrade the city’s outdated compressed natural gas fueling station. In addition, buy-down incentives totaling $1,094,000 were awarded for alternative-fuel vehicles. In addition, buy-down incentives totaling $1,094,000 were awarded for alternative-fuel vehicles.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

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The evaluation will consider the impacts, processes, market effects and costs of the program, and will help to guide future program efforts. based in Valencia (Los Angeles County), will administer the project, and ZeroTruck of Laguna Niguel (Orange County) will build up to 14 trucks for the project. Electricore Inc.

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California Energy Commission awards $500K to advance green transportation-

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The award recipients are: Arcadia Unified School District (Los Angeles County) will receive $300,000 to install a new compressed natural gas fueling system. Buy-down incentives, totaling $122,000, will be awarded for 15 alternative-fuel vehicles.

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AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop

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These numbers do not consider cost of living, which generally gives Austin a significant edge, particularly if you want to buy a house). However, Silicon Valley’s tech salaries, already higher than Texas averages, increased their lead slightly, climbing 5 percent to $133,204 compared with Austin’s 4.6 percent to $109,176.

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Nine EVs that lease for under $400/month: Ioniq 5, Solterra, Niro, Ioniq 6, more

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The number of electric vehicle models that can be leased for less than an average monthly lease cost of $400/month has grown by 50% since last August. Committing another $55/month over the three-year lease term buys a whopping 37% bump up in range, for a total of 303 miles. So that has more people leasing EVs than ever before.

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