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Louisiana Dealership caught posting misleading Ford F-150 EV listing on Facebook

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A Louisiana dealership is playing tricks on potential customers by listing a used Ford F-150 Lightning EV for $5,000 on Facebook. A simple Google search can tell you that. The post Louisiana Dealership caught posting misleading Ford F-150 EV listing on Facebook appeared first on TESLARATI. Teslarati is now on TikTok.

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Cool Planet breaks ground on its first biomass-to-renewable gasoline plant

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Cool Planet Energy Systems, a technology company producing green fuels and biochar products, broke ground on the company’s first commercial facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, dubbed Project Genesis. The facility will be located at the Port of Alexandria, on the Red River Waterway in Central Louisiana. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Cool Planet successfuly completes road test of cellulosic bio-gasoline blend

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This follows tests that Google conducted in 2012 showing the performance and clean air attributes of the fuel. The company is currently raising the equity and siting their first commercial facility in Alexandria, Louisiana that will produce up to 10 million gallons per year of renewable fuel.

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Cellulosic biogasoline company Cool Planet completes second close of D Round, raises another $19.4M; $60M total

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The funding will also provide capital to construct Cool Planet’s first commercial plant, which will be located at the Port of Alexandria, Louisiana. This work will be supported by leading international engineering firm, URS Corporation, as the company recently announced.

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Renewable fuels and biochar company Cool Planet closes on $100M Series D financing

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The company broke ground on its first biofuel production facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 26 February 2014. Funding also came from existing investors BP, Energy Technology Ventures (GE, ConocoPhillips and NRG Energy), Google Ventures and the Constellation division of Exelon.

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UPS announces renewable diesel agreements with Neste, REG and Solazyme; up to 46M gallons over next 3 years

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REG, headquartered in Ames, Iowa, produces renewable hydrocarbon diesel fuel from waste vegetable oils and animal fats at its Geismar, Louisiana, bio-refinery as well as biodiesel at nine bio refining locations in the US. UPS has been using renewable fuels for more than a year in trucks operating in Texas and Louisiana. trillion.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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USDA has reached an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank to provide a $91-million Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee to Cool Planet to help the company finish construction on an advanced biofuel plant at the Port of Alexandria in Louisiana. Earlier post.). Cool Planet will be contributing $50 million in equity to the project.