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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

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Within the framework of the initiative, the E-Mobility Group is bringing together the main players—e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers—thus promoting shared infrastructure solutions for truck customers within the network.

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Chevrolet to invest $40M in clean energy projects

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million vehicles Chevrolet is expected to sell in the United States over the next year. The initiative is based on projects that promote energy savings, renewable energy, responsible use of natural resources and conservation in communities across the United States. Contributing to forestry projects throughout America.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. El Centro, Calif. Dominion Energy, Richmond, Va. PingThings, El Segundo, Calif.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Attract and leverage private, State, and Federal investment in electric vehicle deployment, infrastructure, research and development, and education and outreach. Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. National Grid.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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The DMP design would be a fully submerged wave energy converter resting on the ocean floor, converting the oscillatory nature of a wave’s pressure fluctuations into alternating compression and expansion cycles of flexible air-filled chambers that are connected to a bi-directional air turbine and an electrical generator.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. April 10, 2009 11:51 am Link The electric car is only part of the story in Portland. — Larry 4.

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