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Virginia allocating >$12M for electric buses; new statewide contract

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The state of Virginia will allocate more than $12 million in state funding to deploy electric transit buses in three Virginia localities, using nearly $9 million from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust (VW Trust) that the Commonwealth received as part of its settlement with Volkswagen. In total, 17 electric buses and charging infrastructure will be deployed by local transit systems in Alexandria, Blacksburg, and Hampton Roads.

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BMW mixed messaging, tax-credit talking points, kicking gas: The Week in Reverse

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Who made a new appearance as a pitchman for gas guzzlers? What company says gas and diesel engines will live on for decades—even as it pulled forward plans to build more electric cars? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 28, 2018. Beginning with Tesla models.

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Cummins to acquire fuel-cell provider Hydrogenics

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Cummins Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, all the issued and outstanding shares of fuel-cell systems provider Hydrogenics Corporation for US$15.00 per share in cash, other than shares already owned by The Hydrogen Company, representing an enterprise value of approximately $290 million. Following the unanimous recommendation of the special committee of Hydrogenics Board of Directors, all non-interested directors of Hydrogenics have unanimo

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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. ( Earlier post.). The Opus 12 process—based on the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 —combines CO?, water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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