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Phoenix Motorcars deploys electric cargo truck to service family-owned business in Sacramento

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Phoenix Motorcars, a manufacturer of medium-duty all-electric buses and trucks, has delivered its first ZEUS 500 Electric Cargo Truck to C&V Contractors, a family-owned contracting business based out of Sacramento, California. —Kristian Damkier, Assoc. Air Quality Engineer at Sac Metro Air District.

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UPS plans to build 9 additional LNG stations at cost of ~$50M

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Phoenix, Ariz., Since vehicles represent approximately 35 percent of UPS’s carbon footprint, a cornerstone of the company’s environmental strategy is to support the development and use of lower-emission alternative fuels. Construction is already underway at previously-announced UPS facilities in Tennessee and Texas.

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Amazon leans on Rivian to deliver packages in 100 U.S. cities for the Holidays

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Since Amazon and Rivian announced a partnership for sustainable e-commerce and 100,000 all-electric delivery vans in 2019, the conglomeration has flourished into a successful and groundbreaking package delivery program. It is a necessary step in the company’s mission to be sustainable, and it might not be possible without Rivian.