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EV Life is awarded CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission to make financing electric cars cheaper than gas vehicles.

EV Life

The grant will fund the development of a fintech platform to empower EV buyers to save up to $200/month on electric vehicle loans. EV Life, a car site dedicated exclusively to electric vehicles, announced that it was 1 of 28 companies to win a CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC).

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Chat GPT’s take on electric cars

Spark Powered

I recently asked ChatGPT what the benefits to electric cars were and this is how it responded: There are several benefits to using electric vehicles (EVs), including: Environmental benefits: EVs emit significantly less greenhouse gases and other air pollutants compared to conventional gasoline-powered vehicles.

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Pennsylvania DEP awards more than $4.4M in alternative fuels grants to 12 projects; bulk for natural gas

Green Car Congress

million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to 12 projects across the state. The bulk of the funding is flowing to natural gas projects, with additional funding for electric vehicle infrastructure and a biodiesel project. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will award more than $4.4

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Tesla Model Y joins a new Police Force, and incentives made it an affordable purchase

Teslarati

Some commentors called for a defunding of the police deparment, while others said that local schools were suffering while police departments were buying “expensive” electric cars. While the Tesla Model Y isn’t the automaker’s least expensive car, it is far from the most expensive.

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Why Schools Should Electrify Their Bus Fleets

Blink Charging

The transition away from gasoline and diesel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is going full throttle in the United States, and that includes the iconic yellow school bus. As it turns out, the very gasoline or diesel vehicles children use to go to school hamper their learning.

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Belfer Center discussion paper explores potential for electric vehicles to transform US market

Green Car Congress

A recent discussion paper published by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, concludes that significant penetration of electric cars into the US marketplace will only occur if the vehicles are competitive with conventional vehicles, not only on a cost basis, but also on an attribute basis.

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Rio Tinto to take a position $1.4B in greener aluminum smelter, which might support EV output

Baua Electric

one thing that would support within the manufacturing of electrical cars. Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm says the funding marks the corporate’s greatest in Quebec — and likewise within the West — in a decade, with the province granting $150 million in investment help. . — Rio Tinto says it is going to manufacture a $1.4-billion

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