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GILLIG posts highest score for battery-electric bus at Altoona

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GILLIG Battery Electric Bus by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), Charlotte, North Carolina. To be eligible for purchase with federal grant funding, such as the recently awarded $1.66 GILLIG announced that it received the highest-ever score for a battery-electric bus tested at Altoona, with a total score of 89.5.

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Raven Transport to deploy 115 additional heavy-duty LNG trucks; Clean Energy expands refueling network

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Charlotte, N.C.; Raven purchased its expanded natural gas truck fleet from Rush Truck Center – Jacksonville, Fla., part of the largest network of commercial vehicle dealerships in the United States, which is owned and operated by Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ: RUSHA and RUSHB). Jacksonville, Fla.; Houston Baytown, Texas; Latta, S.C.;

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The 2024 Chevy Blazer EV has a quirky $4k discount for Tesla drivers

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The $4,000 discount applies to both 2024 Chevy Blazer EV leases and purchases and according to CarsDirect, it can be stacked with other deals, such as the $7,500 tax credit and the $1,000 Costco member-only incentive. Chevrolet’s conquest bonus cash offer doesn’t require a trade-in and can be transferred to household members, so that’s nice.

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Ford: boomers leading trend to compact utility vehicles

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Industry data supplied by Ford Motor Company and Del Webb, part of the multi-brand homebuilder PulteGroup, show that the baby boomer segment (ages 55 to 64), which comprised the growing market for large homes and made minivans and big SUVs vogue are now shifting to still lavish, but smaller homes and utility vehicles. cubic feet.

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Ford CEO: Ford to focus on 5 key areas of innovation: mobility, autonomy, connectivity, customer experience and performance

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Ford is also uniting regional performance engineering and racing teams as one global team under “Ford Performance”, delivering more new vehicles and parts, more quickly. Our new global Ford Performance team ties together racing, performance vehicles and parts. Ford remains committed to innovation through performance.

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Lithium Technology Corporation enters strategic alliance and investment agreement with FN Group for large format Li-ion packs for automotive applications

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As part of this program FN Research will supply its proprietary battery management system as well as its proprietary electric and hybrid electric drive train. As part of the transaction, William Chia, Director of Operations of FN Research, will join LTC’s Board of Directors as well as sit on LTC’s audit committee.

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It’s too late to China-proof the lithium supply chain – ET Auto

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Parts of our key supply chains, including for clean energy, are currently over-concentrated in China,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this month during a visit to Chile, home to the largest lithium reserves. the Charlotte, North Carolina-based miner whose processing plant Yellen visited during her trip to Chile.

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