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Ferguson collaborates with Ford on F550 Fuel Cell Prototype

Green Car Congress

Ferguson Enterprises is collaborating with Ford Motor Company to place a first-of-its-kind F550 Fuel Cell Prototype Chassis Work Truck in service within Ferguson’s daily fleet operations for six months.

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gains mining approval in North Carolina

Teslarati

After filing for the mining permit in August 2021, Piedmont has faced some local backlash and regulatory challenges for the site outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. The site is expected to include both a Lithium hydroxide conversion facility and a Spodumene concentrator, as can be seen in the company’s renderings below.

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Electric classic - what's not to love?

EV Driver

Let’s find out a little more about this brilliant company from Kit himself…. We then branched out to offer conversions a few years ago, adopting the newest technology in our ever changing market. Interview by Charlotte Dautzenberg How much fun does that sound? Firstly, we’d really love to know what inspired eDub Trips?

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Gadget’s New World

Revenge of the Electric Car

Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric. Most people would have been knocked flat by such a turn of events, but the fire seems to have made Gadget and his wife, Charlotte, even more determined to push for a plug-in future.

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FedEx boosts fleet with hybrid-electric trucks

Green Cars News

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Framatome Inc.