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Amazon EV milestone: 15,000 electric delivery vans in service (100,000 by 2030)

Baua Electric

When Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, it announced plans to put more than 100,000 electric delivery vans on the road by 2040. To that end, Amazon has installed over 17,000 chargers at more than 120 delivery stations across the US. Five years later, and the house that Bezos built just crossed the 15,000 EV milestone.

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EPA announces $1B in grants for electric school buses and heavy-duty vehicles

Baua Electric

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South Bay Bicycle Coalition Scores $240,000 Grant! Huge Grassroots Victory for Brand New Bike Group

Creative Greenius

But it’s even better news for the health of our South Bay communities – not just for the obesity-fighting exercise that people on bicycles are going to be getting, but just as importantly, for the cleaner air we’re going to get to breathe thanks to people using pollution-free bicycle transportation instead of driving their cars.

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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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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones.

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The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. Our neighborhood is called the “Hollywood Riviera&# because of its beautiful hillside homes with idyllic ocean views framed by palm trees. That’s about a 25% reduction.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. John’s listed its charger on EVmatch to make driving EVs easier for community members, many of whom rent or live in multi-family housing without a reliable place to charge, or other Chicagoans visiting the neighborhood in electric cars and needing a spot to charge up.