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Ryder Awarded First-of-Its-Kind Natural Gas Heavy Duty Truck Rental and Leasing Project Using $19.3M in Stimulus Funding

Green Car Congress

In addition to reducing emissions, with natural gas fuel prices significantly and consistently lower than diesel fuel, Ryder customers who incorporate natural gas vehicles in their fleet have the opportunity to realize additional cost savings. tons of diesel particulate emissions from local neighborhoods.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

But increased use of electric vehicles could lead to everyone plugging in at the same time, peaking demand and complicating things, particularly if electric vehicles take hold of entire neighborhoods, as car trends often do, Kjaer explained. So instead, Edison and auto manufacturers are turning to “smart metering&# technologies.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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