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EPA announces $1B in grants for electric school buses and heavy-duty vehicles

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Photo: Highland Fleets Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced nearly $1 billion in grants to replace gas heavy-duty vehicles and school buses with electric vehicles. The grant program is funded through the Inflation Reduction Act under President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda. “In Get started here. –

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Michigan State University deploys full-size autonomous electric bus

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As part of the process to greenlight accepting passengers, validation of the bus, route and infrastructure was granted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The bus runs Monday through Thursday, 9:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and Fridays from 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., and noon respectively.

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Letting in the Light

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All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. Gerhardt had joined with Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA) to offer training programs—and certification— to aspiring ebike mechanics.

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Solaris delivers electric school bus; Kangaroo program

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This financial support was also granted to the commune of Gr?boszów. Orange beacon lights, which turn on automatically when the bus doors open, are mounted on the roof, on the rear section. The bus is fully adapted to transport disabled persons. There are 41 seats on board the vehicle and all of them feature safety belts.

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NJ Governor signs legislation establishing goals and incentives for increased use of plug-ins and charging infrastructure

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The bill also codifies the Murphy Administration’s goal of 330,000 registered light-duty electric vehicles by 2025 and directs state-owned light-duty vehicles to be electric by 2035. The rebates will provide up to $5,000 per vehicle and will be funded by approximately $30 million from the Clean Energy Fund each year.

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Rosneft touts major light oil find from “northernmost well in the world” in the Arctic

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It is an astonishing sample of light oil, which based on the results of the analysis performed, is comparable to the Siberian Light oil. I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province. The first oil was extracted.

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Michigan State University introduces electric autonomous bus through collaboration with state, Karsan and ADASTEC

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Data that MSU plans to collect and analyze from the bus includes V2I (vehicle to infrastructure) communication technologies as well as experiential learning from persons with disabilities to inform future design considerations. square miles of contiguous urban, suburban, industrial and rural zones. The bus’s 2.5-mile The bus’s 2.5-mile

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