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1980 Electravan in Minneapolis

DIY Electric Car

My wife and I just purchased a 1980 Electravan from a friend in New Orleans and towed it back home to Minneapolis. 1980 Electravan in Minneapolis. We're in love with it. Short version of the Electravan story: Jet Industries in Austin TX bought the empty chassis of a few hundred Subaru Sambars and installed GE electric motors in them.

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car2go pulls plug on car-sharing service in San Diego, Minneapolis/St. Paul

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Daimler’s car-sharing service car2go is suspending its operations in San Diego, California and in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. In San Diego, car2go faced a lack of use, the company said. In the Twin Cities, the issue is the high state car rental taxation rates.

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Electrifying Transportation Equitably: All-Electric Carshare

CleanTechnica EVs

Minneapolis and St. To wrap up September, there is positive news coming out of Minneapolis and St. Paul residents logged 25,000 trips and nearly 250,000 miles on the nation’s first renewably powered all-electric carshare program. Paul, Minnesota, where they are reporting the first six months of usage data for Evie Carshare.

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Cummins investing more than $1B in US engine manufacturing network

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million square feet full-service facility, concentrating on design, product, service engineering and manufacturing located just north of Minneapolis. The Cummins Power Systems factory is a 1.1 This is a $10-million investment that will support 100 new jobs by 2024.

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Minneapolis gets EV Ready

Plugs and Cars

Minneapolis will be getting 18 electric cars from Ford, and stimulus funding will be used to install charging points, as reported in the Twin Cities downtownjournal.com.

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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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The two Volvo VNR Electric trucks participating in the field tests are supported by the Volvo Trucks commercial support teams and are maintained and serviced by Nuss Truck & Equipment, the local Volvo Trucks Certified Electric Vehicle Dealership in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Xcel Energy, INL to use nuclear energy for clean hydrogen production; HTSE

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Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will work with Idaho National Laboratory to demonstrate a system that uses a nuclear plant’s steam and electricity to split water. Earlier post.) The resulting hydrogen will initially be used at the power plant, but it could eventually be sold to other industries.

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