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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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is using pay-as-you-save financing to help transportation companies switch to electric buses. CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. Energy Access. Transportation. Social & Cultural Impacts.

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Hyundai bringing XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks to California

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Macquarie’s Specialized and Asset Finance business, part of its Commodities and Global Markets division, will finance the trucks through a lease to the operator. This project will be the largest commercial deployment of Class 8 hydrogen FCETs in North America.

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Tropicana Las Vegas Closing Tuesday to Make Way for a Baseball Stadium

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Last summer, the governor of Nevada signed a bill agreeing to finance up to $380 million of the $1.5 The team will play its 2024 season at the Oakland Coliseum in California and is working with the league to evaluate options for a place to play in the interim after that season. “We Over the years, the N.F.L. , the N.H.L. , the W.N.B.A.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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Ford Credit is inviting 14,000 and 12,000 customers in six US cities and London, respectively, to sign up to rent their Ford Credit-financed vehicles to prescreened drivers for short-term use, offsetting monthly vehicle ownership costs. For 40%, it’s the opportunity to try new products, while for 33%, it’s having access to more options.

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Tesla + Toyota

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There’s even lingering hope among some residents that the Oakland A’s will still move to Fremont, where owner Lew Wolff had once hoped to finance a stadium by surrounding it with a “ballpark village&# of housing units. And the president’s visit this week shows that we’re on their radar.&#.

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PRIME Coalition invests in three startups: electrochemical reduction of CO2, lightweight materials; Li extraction

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PRIME Coalition, a 501(c)(3) public charity funding tech start-ups that fight climate change, closed three new investments: Opus 12 in Berkeley, CA; Mallinda in Denver, CO; and Lilac Solutions in Oakland, CA. Fifty-six foundations, philanthropists, and impact investors have backed PRIME and our portfolio companies.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. It would also fund stationary fuel cells to provide primary and emergency back-up power for the bus maintenance and storage facilities. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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