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Tesla range lawsuit, electric Minis, Nikola, and biogas: Today's Car News

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Tesla faces a lawsuit over lost range in some older models. Startup heavy truckmaker Nikola won a federal grant to improve fuel cells. And a European project worked out how to get as much range and efficiency from natural-gas engines as from gasoline. Mini may go all-electric with its next generation of models.

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8 Reasons Government Grants Should Include Funding for Level 1 Charging Infrastructure

EV Adoption

As we wait for Congress to fully return from their recess and vote on various legislation, I continue to be extremely concerned about how as much as $10 billion in federal government grants will be be spent on EV charging infrastructure. miles of range per day , which at 22 hours = 77 to 143 miles per day.

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Proterra introduces 35-foot electric bus

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The XR Extended Range product, using NMC Li-ion cells, allows longer distances between charge events. Proterra’s configurable EV platform, battery and charging options make its buses well suited for a wide range of transit and campus routes. Proterra has demonstrated that this option can travel more 700 miles in 24 hours.

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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The revised statutory requirements also include new definitions and criteria for both renewable fuels and the feedstocks used to produce them, including new greenhouse gas (GHG) emission thresholds as determined by lifecycle analysis. Percent reduction from 2005 baseline). Renewable fuel. Advanced biofuel. Biomass-based diesel.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

Unfortunately there are still damn few J-plugs (the new standard for plug-in cars) publicly deployed, despite the expectations created by the federal grants to the EVProject (Ecotality) and ChargePoint America (Coulomb) and ex-Mayor Newsom here in San Francisco. The situation is similarly bleak in Southern California.

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Freightliner Custom Chassis and Morgan Olson Introduce Next Generation Vehicle for FCCC All-Electric Walk-In Van

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The battery pack provides up to a 100-mile (161 km) driving range on a single charge. The all-electric chassis also was initiated before stimulus money and federal grants were available for alternative-fuel transportation projects. The battery pack will charge from fully depleted to fully charged in six to eight hours.

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Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporations All-Electric Walk-In Van Chassis Debuts at NTEA Work Truck Show; Enova Drive System, Tesla Battery Pack

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The FCCC electric WIV also marks the first commercial vehicle application of a Tesla Motors Li-ion battery pack, which provide up to a 100-mile driving range on a single charge. FCCC initiated our all-electric project well before stimulus money and federal grants were available for alternative-power transportation projects.