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Florida beach town becomes the first to launch an all electric bus fleet

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The city of Hallandale Beach, Florida is in the news this week after becoming the only municipality in the state with a fully electric transit bus fleet. The total bill for the new bus fleet comes in at $5,906,828, paid for by a State of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) totaling $3,406,828 million along with a contribution of $2.5

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Description. City of Fairfield. 746,456.

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Rentech receives term sheet for loan guarantee from DOE for recently-acquired advanced-stage renewable power project in Florida

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Joe, Florida, that would employ a Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasifier to produce renewable power. Most of the project’s power output has been contracted for sale to Progress Energy Florida under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), with a small fraction available for sale on a merchant basis. Rentech, Inc. The Port St.

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Tesla Model 3 fleet cost efficiency to be tested by City of Venice

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The City of Venice, Florida, recently purchased three Tesla Model 3 units and will test the fleet of all-electric sedans to see if they are effective tools in reducing the cost of operating multiple vehicles for government purposes.

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USDOT announces $84.9M through Lo-No program to expand advanced bus technologies

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Eligible projects include the purchase or lease of buses powered by modern, efficient technologies. The City and Borough of Juneau will receive funds to purchase new electric buses to replace aging diesel buses, associated charging infrastructure, and a back up generator. Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX).

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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& Guidestar testing ramped up in a second location, Florida, after San Jose testing received positive reviews. At the time the system cost $2,000 ($4,085 adj.). .& Assuming you received your state complimentary from GM at purchase, you’d need just $6,400 ($13,074 adj.) Of those, 1,000 were the units purchased by Avis.

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Ford charges Mustang Mach-E customer $10k in doc fees, but it was a big misunderstanding

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was set to be due when the purchase agreement was signed. ” Essentially, doc fees are up to the dealership, and considering many of these establishments will hide fees behind interesting and often unnoticeable titles, they can tend to get expensive, adding thousands to the cost of a vehicle. A whopping $16,837.99

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