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

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Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) has agreed to purchase five 35-foot Proterra Catalyst E2 electric buses and five 125 kW Proterra plug-in charging systems. By planning for scale now, CLT can utilize the charging infrastructure for a range of battery-electric powered service vehicles in the future.

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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. Altoona evaluates reliability, in part, through measuring in a range of 0 to 125 hours of unscheduled maintenance throughout the testing process, with higher scores going to those with fewer required repairs.

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Albemarle lithium net sales up 410% in Q4 2022 to $2.1B

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In December 2022, Albemarle acquired a location in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it plans to invest at least $180 million to establish the Albemarle Technology Park, a facility designed for novel materials research, advanced process development, and acceleration of next-generation lithium products to market. Adjusted EBITDA of $1.2

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Ferguson collaborates with Ford on F550 Fuel Cell Prototype

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This data will be used to address ongoing industry challenges within the medium-duty and heavy-duty segments, such as battery range and payload capacity, that have prevented faster conversion to environmentally friendlier options.

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Scout Motors selects South Carolina for first plant; $2B investment, 200k units per year

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Bordered by I-77 and Blythewood Road, its strategic location is less than 20 miles north of Columbia and near major cities and talent hubs such as Charleston, Charlotte, Greenville, and Atlanta. The site spans approximately 1,600 acres, with the plant itself occupying 1,100 acres. Rendering of plant at its location.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley argues a new ‘anxiety’ plagues consumers from EVs

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Ford CEO Jim Farley said today that consumers are not committing to electric vehicles because they have anxiety, and it is not range anxiety. “They don’t have range anxiety, they have charging anxiety,” Farley said on Fox Business. “We’re going into the mass consumers who have a lot of charging anxiety.”

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Zap&Go bringing C-Ion technology to Williams Advanced Engineering-led consortium as part of ?246M Faraday Battery Challenge

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range, which has the potential to improve the energy density of the C-Ion cells. Zap&Go Ltd is a technology company based at the Harwell Research Campus, Oxford with a US office in Charlotte, NC. These electrolytes can operate in the 4.0V The time is right to demonstrate that our Carbon-Ion technology can deliver safe, fast charging.

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