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Cleveland Schools replacing 49 diesel buses with propane

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Cleveland Schools, Ohio’s second largest school district, is replacing 49 12-to-13-year-old diesel buses with Blue Bird’s Propane Vision buses. The school district annually estimates about $50,000 in electrical costs for powering block heaters to start their diesel buses in cold weather.

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Editorial: Why U.S. Metal bidding warfare is a reason why to worry

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Cleveland-Cliffs stated car consumers made up 31 % of its income in 2022, up from 25 % in 2021. Metal and Cleveland-Cliffs additionally would personal 100% of home iron ore reserves, elevating chance of intervention by means of antitrust regulators. In 2022, U.S. 25 million lots. A blended U.S. A merger of U.S.

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ORNL, Lincoln Electric advance collaboration on large-scale metal additive manufacturing technology

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These developments will focus on increasing throughput while lowering costs and improving the quality of large-scale additively manufactured metallic structures essential for multiple industrial applications. Working with Lincoln Electric is an important step in advancing manufacturing in the US.

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US DOT awards $13.6M to 8 projects to advance fuel cell technology for transit industry

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Over the period of that program, fuel cell lifetimes (in transit operations) have more than doubled while costs have declined by 50%. CALSTART Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority; ElDorado National; BAE Systems; Ballard Power Systems. Funding for the new projects will be managed by CALSTART ($7.7

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NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

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The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. —Kevin Zagorski, Propulsion Advanced Manufacturing manager at Virgin Orbit.

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IHS Markit sees supply crunch coming for electrical steel; potential disruptor of OEM electrification plans

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Cleveland-Cliffs is the only US producer of NOES via its 2020 acquisition of AK Steel; Cliff’s NOES and GOES manufacturing share common production equipment. Cleveland-Cliffs is focused more on GOES production to address the increasing regional demand for electrical transformers, thus reducing available xEV-grade NOES capacity.

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How much money EV ownership saves depends on where you live

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A new University of Michigan study compares the cost of ownership for EVs and internal-combustion vehicles across 14 U.S. cities, finding that the path to cost parity between the two varies by region. The study found that the total cost of ownership for a 300-mile midsize electric SUV varies by $52,000 across all the cities studied.