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A $2-3 billion battery factory for electric trucks is headed to Mississippi

Baua Electric

The companies have selected Marshall County, Mississippi, southeast of Memphis, for the joint venture’s factory, which will localize battery cell production for commercial electric trucks. Daimler Trucks, Accelera by Cummins, and truck maker PACCAR will build a huge battery cell factory for electric trucks in Mississippi.

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DOE awarding $7+ million to four hydrogen and fuel cell projects, including fuel cell delivery trucks

Green Car Congress

the Center for Transportation and the Environment will develop a fuel cell hybrid electric walk-in delivery van with a 150-mile (241 km) range per fueling. The project will also retrofit 15 UPS delivery vans with fuel cell hybrid power trains and test these vehicles at distribution facilities across California.

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Tesla “Cyberliving” trailer specs and size teased anew in Cybertruck UI images

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Elon Musk, however, noted back in March that the Cybertruck could power a tiny house, such as those that could be pulled by a truck. Campers at this class typically include a King Size bed, an actual living room, a full kitchen, and a spacious bathroom with a tub, such as the DRV Luxury Suite 44 Memphis.

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DOE awards $98M in tax credits to automakers and suppliers for clean technology manufacturing

Green Car Congress

General Motors Company was selected for a 48C tax credit of more than $20 million in connection with its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant where the company manufactures Extended Range Electric Vehicles—Chevrolet Volts and the Cadillac ELR electric luxury coupe—along with internal combustion cars. 20 million. With this $10.6

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

Green Car Congress

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We thank our partners for your wide range of support in this important endeavor and are grateful for everyone’s efforts and dedication in making this campaign an overwhelming success to this point. Hear is an update of some of the accomplishments the Plug-in Partners campaign has achieved over the past six months. Keene, N.H., Irvine, CA.,

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

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The basis for the "Spirit of DC" staying over in Arizona through the winter results from the gifting of a state-of-the-art Li-ion battery pack and charger from Delaware Power Systems out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. operating range). PHEV All Around America (PHEV3A) Taking Winter Quarters in Home Sweet Bisbee A.

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