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FedEx Express doubles and diversifies all-electric fleet with 24 new units; adding more than 4,000 new, fuel-efficient vehicles in total

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These vehicles will be studied to help evolve all-electric vehicle technology and to establish a foundation of understanding on utility grid needs by modeling impact of future all-electric vehicle growth on the shared energy grid. Different vehicles are appropriate for different routes.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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Eaton Corporation, DC Wide Bandgap Static Circuit Breaker – $3,760,000. Eaton will develop a silicon carbide-based direct-current circuit breaker design that boosts efficiency and can scale up or down medium voltage application requirements. Eaton Corporation, Ultra-Efficient Intelligent MVDC Hybrid Circuit Breaker – $4,413,913.

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