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California Energy Commission awards nearly $5M to encourage natural gas-powered buses and trucks

Green Car Congress

million to help public and private fleet operators as well as individual consumers afford new alternative-fueled passenger vehicles and medium- and heavy-duty buses and trucks. The natural gas-powered vans will be in the 14,001 to 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight range. The Energy Commission already has awarded nearly $15.5

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

Green Car Congress

million project to demonstrate vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology for an all-electric heavy duty non-tactical vehicle fleet at Los Angeles Air Force Base. The Energy Commission is also awarding $1,074,000 in buy-down incentives for 46 alternative-fuel vehicles. Villa Ford Inc.

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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

The Truth About Cars

This one is at the U-Pull-&-Pay in Colorado Springs , which is about an hour's drive from my pad but is still one of my favorite Front Range yards to visit. Just be sure to test them in the junkyard before you buy, because many don't work. Look, I found a Merlot 2006 Montego just one row over from today's Junkyard Find !

Mercury 59
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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We thank our partners for your wide range of support in this important endeavor and are grateful for everyone’s efforts and dedication in making this campaign an overwhelming success to this point. The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders. The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

Charged recently spoke with Beam Global CEO Desmond Wheatley, who has been with the company since 2010, about the surprisingly wide range of benefits of the company’s EV ARC and Solar Tree systems. They have what certainly was at the time, and probably still is, the world’s only production electric aircraft, meaning you could buy one.

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