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Domino’s expands e-bike deliveries with nationwide program

Green Car Reports

Delivering pizzas in big, aging passenger cars is the norm in many neighborhoods in the nation, and it’s wasteful. In most of those locales, there’s a solid fair-weather alternative to firing up the engine (or taking the electric car) for another delivery just a mile or two away: e-bikes.

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Tesla makes quick work of water-polluting leak at Giga Berlin, authorities give all-clear

Teslarati

The substance was fully caught and gathered in a collection tank at Giga Berlin, and it was later pumped out by an approved waste disposal company. “No There was no danger to the environment or the neighborhood,” the spokesman said. No water-polluting liquid escaped into the open air or into the ground.

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Toyota reveals second iteration of Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell truck: Project Portal 2.0; 300 miles per fill

Green Car Congress

Engineers and technicians worked long hours to reconfigure the wire harnesses, electronics and other components of two off-the-lot Mirai fuel cell electric cars to create one of the world’s first OEM-built zero-emission heavy trucks. With a gross combined weight capacity of 80,000 lbs. This time we’re looking at commercial viability.

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The Benefits of Bidirectional Charging

Wallbox

This innovation can reduce the demand on the national power grid, and in return save money as you take energy that’s already been paid for back from the Electric cars. Then overnight the electric car will charge, benefiting from cheaper power rates due to lower energy demand and making this friendly to the environment.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

Ed Kjaer, the director of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, demonstrates how the Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle or MiEV plugs into their Garage of the Future at their Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Photo by Eric Tom). Edison’s answer: new meters.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

With superpowered cars like the Model S Plaid , Tesla upended the stereotype of electric cars as being slow, frumpy and boring. Now electric cars are making scorching inroads on the racing scene, faster than many folks dared to believe. If you’re attracted by lap time, you have to go for an electric car.”.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time.

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