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Proterra introduces 35-foot electric bus

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The modular configuration is a part of Proterra’s approach to electrifying mass transit routes across the United States. Proterra has demonstrated that this option can travel more 700 miles in 24 hours. Moreover, the contract seeks to match and qualify contract users with federal grant and/or stimulus funds.

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RFF papers explore differing outcomes of higher gasoline taxes on public transit and rural areas

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Variation across different regions of the United States of relative compensating variation (CV, additional money required to stay at same utility level). heterogeneity across and within states. more responsive to changes in gasoline prices by reducing their yearly miles traveled in a private. price alone.

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Exclusive Greenius Coverage of Today’s Clean Tech Roundtable

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He went on to say that China has stepped up their auto requirements from 37 miles per gallon to 42 miles per gallon – compared to our own new CAFE standards of 25 miles per gallon to 39 miles per gallon. Recycling – Simply put, the United State is the Saudi Arabia of garbage.

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This is How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect The Global EV Market

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Many municipal and federal governments, for example, have expanded consumer benefits for EV sales, mostly as part of stimulus efforts aimed at mitigating the pandemic’s economic effect. Public demand for electric vehicles , on the other hand, has decreased in the United States. The short distance market.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

Tesla’s announcement Thursday that it was teaming up with Toyota to start making its $50,000 electric Model S at NUMMI, hiring 1,000 workers and possibly creating 10 times that number of jobs down the road, has brought hope back to Fremont, a 92-square-mile piece of Silicon Valley that had seemed shrouded of late with gloom.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

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For the past two decades I’ve been one of the top freelance pros in the United States doing this kind of work for my multinational corporate clients. SBESC's Marilyn Lyon talks about Federal Stimulus Funding / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. But I also bring something more on top of all that.

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Chrysler debuts all-electric minivan

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Chrysler debuts all-electric minivan Alisa PriddleThe Detroit News April 22, 2009 12:00 PM Chrysler LLC is celebrating Earth Day with the presentation of four all-electric minivans to the United States Postal Service in Washington today. Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program by the mid-May deadline.