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Florida beach town becomes the first to launch an all electric bus fleet

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The city of Hallandale Beach, Florida is in the news this week after becoming the only municipality in the state with a fully electric transit bus fleet. The Florida city says that it’s “paving the way for a healthier environment and progressive future,” which is a welcome change from the state’s typical, “let’s make The Handmaid’s Tale real!”

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. The buses will be operated on BCT's express bus routes servicing the Southeast Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The cost of performing a calculation on a PC dropped so much that it was often significantly cheaper to use a little machine than a mainframe. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. in modern European history from Florida State University. Gerstner Jr.

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Miami commits to putting 100 electric school buses on the road

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Miami-Dade county is set to receive nearly $20 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to help cover the costs of 50 new electric school buses and 16 DC fast chargers, bringing the public school district’s total to 100 electric buses. Image by Al Diaz; via Miami Herald.

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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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During prolonged outages, they can provide a cleaner and less expensive alternative to emergency diesel generators. The average cost of electricity for commercial users in Puerto Rico is about 29 U.S. The growth in residential solar capacity has been 2.5 times as great as the combined growth in the commercial and industrial sectors.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

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We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). The cost of battery cells using NMC/NCA chemistries is also being driven higher by substantially large increases in nickel and cobalt prices. Farewell to falling prices. Greening the supply chain.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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The cost of fully implementing the Kyoto Protocol (in terms of lost economic growth) has been estimated at roughly $180 billion a year. No wonder so many of them have so much trouble with the largely Western plea that we all go on a carbon diet. It’s simply not in their interest to do so. Earlier post.)