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

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CLT, which serves approximately 46 million passengers each year, becomes the ninth airport to purchase Proterra electric buses for ground transportation and joins a growing list of major airports across the US that are electrifying their fleets. Proterra battery-electric buses will contribute to CLT’s sustainability goals.

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Help! I Missed a Cruise and the Cruise Line’s Own Travel Insurance Won’t Pay.

Baua Electric

I called Norwegian and agents suggested I buy last-minute tickets on a different airline, but I don’t have that kind of money. But claims adjusters tend to be extremely literal in interpreting the fine-print list of “perils” or “hazards” your policy covers. “If

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

Click the link under each section to jump back up to the list of experts. Georgia Chalvatzaki. The cheapest human-sized humanoids I’m aware of are in the $150K range (a long way from the olden days of $1M price tags)… But I’ll believe the price when I can actually buy one. Assistant Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity. Now, if you look at just the materials half of the $7,500 tax credit, there’s $3,750 available, and graphite is on a short list of critical materials, along with lithium, cobalt, nickel and a few others.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The company is currently testing samples of the battery, expects the product to be commercially available in 2013, and has already built a list of several companies who have committed to buy the product. Collaborators include Purdue University; Georgia Institute of. Alliance and Georgia Institute of. University.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

One need look no further for evidence than the list of the world’s richest people, which is topped (by a very wide margin, at press date) by an EV magnate. Of course, this has been the case with EVs for well over a decade now.