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

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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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Electric shuttles to start service in south Sacramento

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SacRT began piloting the service in February 2018 in partnership with the Franklin Neighborhood Development Corporation using compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. SmaRT Ride is the first on-demand micro-transit program in Sacramento with an innovative service model that provides point-to-point transportation.

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). He also served as a media and technology executive at Time Warner, both in corporate positions and at the company’s America Online (AOL) division.

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Rivian to turn coal mine to solar energy center in Kentucky

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” Rivian showroom to open in luxury Chicago neighborhood Once complete, the Starfire coal mine will be the BrightNight Starfire Renewable Energy Center. BrightNight plans to construct a 20-mile transmission line for the renewable energy project, enabling an additional 1GW of clean power generation for the site.

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First EVs in new car-sharing program with Envoy to roll out in Sacramento; 142 e-Golfs by early 2019; Sac-to-Zero

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Electrify America and the City of Sacramento this week also launched the “ Sac-to-Zero ” initiative, which aims to accelerate the use of shared “clean mobility” transportation. The program was designed to provide needed mobility to lower income communities.

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Tandem Expansion Invests in Power Conversion and Management Company Delta-Q

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Delta-Q supplies power conversion and power management products for electric drive vehicles with more than 500,000 units in use on vehicles such as golf cars, aerial work platforms, industrial floor cleaning machines, and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. The $17-million (US$16.7

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Toyota to collaborate in research for the creation of H2-based society in the United Arab Emirates

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Toyota Motor Corporation has agreed to collaborate with Masdar, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Air Liquide, and Toyota distributor Al-Futtaim Motors in a joint research program to explore the potential of hydrogen energy use in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the creation of a sustainable, low-carbon society.