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The 2024 Fleet Manager’s Guide to Home Charging Reimbursement for Electric Vehicles

Green Fleet Magazine

Home charging is a great way to reduce electricity costs and save employee time, but running a compliant home charging reimbursement program is surprisingly complex. Flat allowances or inaccurate calculations can lead to financial waste, legal issues, and employee dissatisfaction.

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Fire at Tesla’s Fremont factory contained, no injuries reported

Teslarati

Last week, Tesla celebrated reaching a production milestone of three million electric vehicles (EVs) built by its Fremont and Nevada factories , a little under two years after the plant surpassed two million EVs produced. Tesla Semi exec shares key program and Nevada factory details What are your thoughts?

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Li-Cycle receives conditional commitment for $375M loan from DOE ATVM program

Green Car Congress

and the US Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO), through its Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) program, have entered into a conditional commitment for a $375-million loan. Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. The company continues to scale its Spoke & Hub network to enable up to an overall 95% recycling efficiency rate.

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EC proposes modernizing EU legislation on batteries to enhance sustainability and safety

Green Car Congress

Providing legal certainty will additionally help unlock large-scale investments and boost the production capacity for innovative and sustainable batteries in Europe and beyond to respond to the fast-growing market. Other batteries—industrial, automotive or electric vehicle ones—have to be collected in full.

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Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

Green Car Congress

A significant portion of related financing will go toward accelerating Ford’s leadership in electric vehicles. Clean Manufacturing – Further reducing the environmental footprint of Ford’s operations through renewable energy, sustainable water and wastewater management, waste management, and energy-efficient buildings.

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Ford Scales Back Michigan Battery Plant Investments

The Truth About Cars

Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. From Ford: While we remain bullish on our long-term strategy for electric vehicles, we are re-timing and resizing some investments.

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Tesla formally wins final environmental approval to open Gigafactory Berlin

Teslarati

An official document confirming the update was published by the State of Brandenburg, outlining the next steps that the electric vehicle maker needs to do to start vehicle production in its Germany-based electric vehicle factory. .

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