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Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

Green Car Congress

Net proceeds from sustainable financing will be invested and expended in four areas: Clean Transportation – Designing, developing and manufacturing zero-emissions transportation, focusing on battery-electric vehicles and the batteries that power them across the full range of design, development, manufacturing and end-of-life.

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Tesla Vehicles Automatically Open Windows & Doors When Submerged Under Water

CleanTechnica EVs

Hurricane Ian has brought stories of how a solar-powered community fared much better than most, how a Ford F-150 Lightning kept some lives in full comfort while the neighborhood was lacking electricity, and how a Tesla Model X escaped floodwaters, but we’re not done with the Hurricane Ian–related cleantech stories yet.

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Greenius To Preach Community Choice & Climate Justice in South L.A. Church

Creative Greenius

Filed under: environment Tagged: California Crossroads , Creative Greenius , Food and Water Watch California , Holman Methodist Church , Joe Galliani , renewable energy , South Bay 350 Climate Action Group , South Bay Clean Power , South L.A.

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Tesla sponsors sustainability project for church in Oakland

Teslarati

It is our prayer that this large-scale project will encourage other churches to install clean and sustainable energy on their campus and continue the battle for environmental justice.” Equitable access to clean air, clean water, healthy food options, and clean energy.

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Tesla formally wins final environmental approval to open Gigafactory Berlin

Teslarati

“As a high-performing state administration, you have always focused on the technical requirements, the high level of protection of the environment, the protection of the general public and the neighborhood from dangers, even under the pressure of great public interest and unreasonable harassment as well as the legal certainty of the procedure.

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News: Corvette Adds Electric Power to Boost Performance

Clean Fleet Report

It’ will be a high-water mark for performance, the stock-in-trade of Corvette for most of its 70 years. Old school Vettes: Road Test: 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Sptingray Couple Road Test: 2019 Chevrolet Corvette Z51 The post News: Corvette Adds Electric Power to Boost Performance first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. liter V8’s exhaust.

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

Green Car Congress

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.