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WHYY reports Philadelphia’s Proterra electric bus fleet sidelined due to cracked chassis and other defects

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BYD buses were removed from service in Indianapolis for upgrades due to range issues, while officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, returned 15 BYD buses for similar reasons, Briggs reported. A protracted legal back-and-forth began, with Proterra maintaining the buses should be put back into service and SEPTA insisting on a fix.

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Calumet’s Montana Renewables became the largest SAF producer in North America in Q2

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Calumet is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and operates twelve facilities throughout North America. In November 2021, Montana Renewables was separated both legally and commercially from Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P., Montana Renewables is a renewable fuel business located in Great Falls, Montana.

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QOTD: How to Solve Racing's Aggression Problem?

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About halfway through Sunday's Indianapolis 500, I looked at the clock and thought "this thing will be over soon. So it's legal to start racing as you come out of Turn 4. I am going to have more free time today than I expected." How wrong I was. I don't know what the best approach is here.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Navigant suggests that, since the automakers have already designed the vehicles that they will be selling in 2018, they will become more vocal in 2014 to push for changes; the firm expects the dispute to escalate, perhaps resulting in legal action. presence in Indianapolis.

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Man makes his own electric car

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An Indianapolis man has built his own electric car, US television station WRTV reported recently. Roth explained that he checked with his insurance company and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and found that his converted Escort is legal. “Why not just have a second car that’s purely electric?

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GM Files Voluntary Chapter 11; Agreements with US Treasury and Canada; New GM Expected in 60-90 Days

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Indianapolis, Ind. court filings or court-supervised process, and these filings have no direct legal impact on GM’s plans and operations outside the US. Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP is providing legal advice to the GM Board of Directors. Standby: Sep 2009. Pontiac, Mich. Close: Oct 2009. Spring Hill, Tenn. Standby: Nov 2009.

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Deploying Data Science and AI to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

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She is joining together with Jennifer Jacquet, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU College of Arts and Science; Gohar Petrossian, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at CUNY; and Sunandan Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of Data Science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.

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