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Super Bowl LVIII Automotive Commercial Live-ish Blog

The Truth About Cars

It seems that a country musician from the verdant farmland of.the Philadelphia suburbs.is Thus our subject this evening–the automotive commercials that will be airing throughout the contest. Set out some wings or pizza for another large guy from Ohio, and I'll bring the commercials in case you need to answer nature's call.

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Battle Motors acquires Crane Carrier Company; Class 7 and 8 vocational truck electrification

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EV technology developer Battle Motors has acquired commercial vehicle OEM Crane Carrier Company. Crane Carrier Company (CCC) has been manufacturing commercial vehicles for 75 years and is based in New Philadelphia, Ohio with 180 sales and service dealers throughout North America.

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Clean Energy Fuels delivered 143M gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas in 2019, up 30% year-on-year

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Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing biogenic methane that is produced from the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. Philadelphia will be consuming an estimated 250,000 gallons of CNG when it reaches 43 trucks in 2021.

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1912 electric truck: Take that Tesla Semi!

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Commercial Truck company of Philadelphia built 5-ton electric trucks as far back as 1912. This month, it seems like electric trucks are coming coming off the drawing boards and onto the roads, right and left.

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Electrify America releases $300M Cycle 2 national ZEV investment plan; metro charging, autonomous charging, renewable generation

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Electrify America also will continue to invest in these Cycle 1 metros: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC. This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations and filling in existing routes as station utilization of the highway network increases.

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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

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A $32,500 rebate to replace an older diesel commercial shuttle bus with a new diesel commercial shuttle bus. Philadelphia County. A $264,475 grant to purchase, install, and maintain two DC fast chargers and two Level 2 EV chargers at a retail center at 4000 Monument Road, Philadelphia. Cambria County. Centre County.

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SG Preston and IHI E&C partner on portfolio of renewable diesel and jet plants; 5 initial sites, 600M gallons total capacity

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SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada.

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