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Considerations for applying electric-PTOs units on commercial vehicles: Watch Now – Charged EVs

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Much of the focus on electrifying commercial trucks has been on optimizing electric powertrains and solving challenges like battery capacity, maximum battery voltage, eAxles and safety considerations. Long haul trucks present significant challenges to electrification due to battery size & cost and charging infrastructure.

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Penske Truck Leasing joins CharIN to promote electric commercial vehicle charging standards

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Penske will focus its attention on helping to promote electric vehicle charging standards for commercial vehicles in North America by participating with the group’s “High Power Charging for Commercial Vehicles Task Force” (HPCCV Task Force). Penske Truck Leasing is the first in its industry to join the CharIN organization.

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Plug Power launches 30 kW ProGen fuel cell system

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Plug Power Inc. launched its 30 kW hydrogen fuel cell system, the newest commercial product from the ProGen suite of products. Delivery of the first commercial orders for this product are scheduled in July 2019 to European and Asian on-road e-mobility applications.

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ZeroAvia completes first hydrogen-electric passenger plane flight

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ZeroAvia recently completed the first hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered flight of a commercial-grade aircraft. While some experimental aircraft have flown using hydrogen fuel cells as a power source, the size of this commercially available aircraft shows that paying passengers could be boarding a truly zero-emission flight very soon.

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DOE to award up to $2.5M to deploy fuel-cell-powered baggage tow tractors at commercial airports

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million this year to demonstrate and to deploy fuel-cell-electric baggage tow tractors (BTT) at major US commercial airports. The target market is commercial airports and air freight distribution centers used by passenger airlines and air freight industries. Space required for battery charging can also represent a significant cost.

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Sumitomo installs first large-scale power system using used EV batteries

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Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles. This commercial scale storage system, built on Yume-shima Island, Osaka, will begin operating in February 2014. Earlier post.)

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Caterpillar to supply zero-exhaust emission fleet to graphite miner NMG; offtake agreement for anode material

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Moreover, NMG and Caterpillar have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance commercial discussions targeting NMG’s active anode material. an authorized Cat dealer, will manage the maintenance and repair strategy for the equipment to maximize machine availability.

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