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Phoenix Motorcars deploys electric cargo truck to service family-owned business in Sacramento

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Phoenix Motorcars, a manufacturer of medium-duty all-electric buses and trucks, has delivered its first ZEUS 500 Electric Cargo Truck to C&V Contractors, a family-owned contracting business based out of Sacramento, California. —Kristian Damkier, Assoc. Air Quality Engineer at Sac Metro Air District.

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Clean Energy signs deals for more than 20M gallons of renewable natural gas in past 45 days

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Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Alpha Lion, which carries mail for the US Postal Service between the Northwest United States and Southern California, is adding 16 new natural gas trucks to its fleet through Clean Energy’s Zero Now program and is expected to use more than 700,000 gallons of Redeem annually. million gallons.

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Clean Energy to provide LNG to Hawaii Gas; additional agreements in trucking, transit and refuse markets

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Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Clean Energy has also signed additional agreements throughout the United States representing their growing portfolio of natural gas fueling. Clean Energy announced that it has extended its liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with the City of Phoenix.

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ElectraMeccanica Chooses Mesa, Arizona To Build SOLO Car

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The Phoenix, Arizona metro area seems like it’s starting to become an EV production and maintenance hot spot.

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UPS to purchase ~700 LNG trucks, build 4 refueling stations by end of 2014

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Phoenix, Ariz., UPS was a founding Interstate Clean Transportation Corridor (ICTC) fleet partner, a group that established publicly accessible LNG fueling stations in California, Las Vegas, and Utah. UPS already operates 112 LNG tractor trailers from fueling stations in Las Vegas, Nev.;

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US EPA Awards More Than $4.2M in Recovery Act Funds for Diesel Emission Reduction Projects

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EPA Region 4 received 98 grant applications requesting over $140 million to help fund clean diesel emissions projects. million to New Jersey and New York (EPA Region 2) to clean up a variety of long-haul trucks based in the area. The retrofitted vehicles will run on ultra-low sulfur diesel with 20% biodiesel.

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How Self-Driving Cars Will Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Though we’re still several years away (at least) from robots taking the wheel, some cities in America—Las Vegas, Phoenix and Pittsburgh, to name a few—have already seen self-driving vehicles in action. The pros of going gasless include reduced maintenance costs, lower fuel expense and—most importantly—less pollution.