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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport adds two BYD electric buses

Green Car Congress

Kansas City International Airport has four 30-foot BYD battery-electric K7s, and BYD’s largest airport customer to date, Los Angeles World Airports, has ordered 20 of BYD’s 60-foot articulated K11Ms. The vehicles carry 22 passengers and luggage; the vehicles they replaced only carried 14 passengers.

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Lots of Italy, on Many Collectible Plates

Baua Electric

He ordered the house specialty: spaghettoni, a thicker spaghetti, in a fermented anchovy sauce with black truffles and butter made with milk from water buffalo native to the Mediterranean region. She has since been buying the tableware for herself and for her retail business, Mercato , in Kansas City, Kan.,

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

Green Car Congress

Kansas City Power & Light. The Office of Federal Sustainability is inviting State, county and municipal government fleets to join forces with Federal agencies to maximize their collective buying power, and aggregate their EV and charging infrastructure purchases. Eugene Water & Electric Board. Georgia Power. Con Edison.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The stations will provide additional CNG fueling in cities and along the Interstate corridors that pass through Kansas City – East to West on I-70 and North to South on I-35. To support the vehicles, 35 propane refueling stations will be constructed. Total DOE award: $12,633,080.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Vehicle manufacturers do not share that when they’re selling vehicles, so [fleet operators] are buying vehicles and as soon as winter comes around, they’re getting [only] 60 miles out of a vehicle. Or they’re saying you have to buy [up to] two electric buses to replace every diesel bus because of this battery behavior impact.