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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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Clean Energy signs deals for more than 20M gallons of renewable natural gas in past 45 days

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Clean Energy has been awarded a contract to build a fueling station that will accommodate both fast- and time-filling for the City of Sacramento, along with a long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement, to fuel more than 100 natural gas refuse trucks with an anticipated 8 million gallons of RNG for the next 10 years.

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US EPA Awards More Than $4.2M in Recovery Act Funds for Diesel Emission Reduction Projects

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EPA Region 4 received 98 grant applications requesting over $140 million to help fund clean diesel emissions projects. EPA Region 2 received more than 52 grant applications requesting $168 million to help fund clean diesel emissions projects. The retrofitted vehicles will run on ultra-low sulfur diesel with 20% biodiesel.

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Clean Energy to provide LNG to Hawaii Gas; additional agreements in trucking, transit and refuse markets

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Clean Energy announced that it has extended its liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with the City of Phoenix. Peoria Disposal Company (PDC) has extended a five-year agreement with Clean Energy for the operation & maintenance of its station located in Peoria, Illinois, which represents approximately 230,000 GGEs per year.

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"Spirit" Back at Home Sweet Bisbee But With Safford in Graham Cty and Clifford in Greenlee Cty as well as Bookmans in Mind

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

After the "Spirit's" 120,000-mile maintenance service at Toyota Sierra, set for Monday morn, the "Spirit" may be on the road again to two more county seats of government -- Safford in Graham County and Clifford in Greenslee. Grant Road. Owner, Bob Oldfather, has extended a personal invitation to the "Spirit" to charge up at 1130 E.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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million) grant from the UK government, and $21.4 My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. His new company, ZeroAvia, is developing an aircraft powertrain energized by hydrogen fuel cells.