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Bolzano orders 12 Solaris hydrogen buses

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The battery is filled with energy derived from hydrogen and through the regenerative braking, though it is also possible to recharge it by means of a plug-in socket. heat pump that allows to use waste heat from the fuel cell. Complementing the driveline is an axle with integrated electric motors (2 x 125 kW).

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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 program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project includes 45 E85 and B20 stations, eight propane stations, and 132 electric vehicle recharging sites. A CNG fueling station will be constructed at 2 of the recipient’s, Allied Waste, locations.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

Cars That Think

The workshop featured robots handling food items like cookies, burgers, and cereal, and the two robots seen in the videos below used knives to slice cucumbers and cakes. The workshop featured robots handling food items like cookies, burgers, and cereal, and the two robots seen in the videos below used knives to slice cucumbers and cakes.

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DOE to award up to $35M to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies; fuel cell range extenders

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Subtopics were determined using a variety of means such as gap analyses, feedback from industry, Requests for Information (RFIs), external peer reviews, workshops and an assessment of the current RD&D portfolio. integrating systems where the waste product of one process is utilized as the feedstock of the next); and/or.

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California Energy Commission to award up to $29.9M to hydrogen refueling infrastructure projects

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The station(s)/dispenser(s) shall be able to fuel three vehicles in accordance with SAE International J2601 in a single one-hour period, back-to-back, without the vehicle user having to wait for the station to recharge. biomass, digester gas, landfill gas, sewer gas, or municipal solid waste gas).

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2024 Mercedes-Benz EQE 300 SUV review: This five-door five-seat electric SUV is right in the zone … until you get to the price

EV Central

Service plans start at $2240 for three workshop visits, rise to $3525 for four and $4085 for five. But there is a huge and wasteful gap between the upper section and the flat storage space below. The range claim between recharges is 446km on the WLTP cycle. For $2475 you can uprate to 22kW recharging.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Additional resources: CalCars Environmental FAQ CalCars and Global Warming Plug In Partners: Environmental Benefits Summary of environmental benefits by former DOE official Joe Romm PHEVs will generally recharge at night using excess power from plants that cant shut down completely -- so they dont add to the peak load.

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