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Clean Energy Fuels delivered 143M gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas in 2019, up 30% year-on-year

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Fox Rent A Car has renewed a fuel contract for approximately 210,000 gallons of Redeem over three years to power its 17 CNG rental car shuttles at Los Angeles International Airport and McCarren Airport in Las Vegas. Clean Energy has extended its multi-year Long Beach Transit maintenance agreement. Homewood Disposal Inc.,

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President Obama calls for push on natural gas vehicle adoption and new technology

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In remarks made at UPS in Las Vegas, Nevada, President Barack Obama urged getting more natural gas vehicles on the road. So now one of these trucks can go from Long Beach all the way to Salt Lake City. If more of these brown trucks are going green, more city buses should, too. That’s a great start.

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DOE Selects 42 University-Led Nuclear Research and Development Projects for $38 Million in Funding

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California State University, Long Beach - $1,390,252. University of Nevada, Las Vegas - $989,800. University of Nevada, Las Vegas - $451,269. Actual project funding will be established during contract negotiation phase. Clemson University - $614,690. Drexel University - $1,149,327.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will replace 180 diesel drayage trucks at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with LNG trucks. South Coast Air Quality Management District’s UPS Ontario-Las Vegas LNG Corridor Expansion Project. Additionally, workshops will be made available to truck operators and technicians working on LNG trucks.

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Mercedes eSprinter first drive: here’s the deal – it’s a van, but it’s electric

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Mercedes also said that it managed to drive from Las Vegas to Long Beach, a 275-mile trip (albeit mildly downhill), on a single charge. The car said we got 2.0 miles per kWh, but other journalists got up to 2.4 miles per kWh on the day, and in European outside testing Mercedes managed to clock 2.8 miles per kWh.