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E-quipment highlight: Milwaukee M18 FUEL dual battery electric chainsaw

Baua Electric

Milwaukee Tool’s new M18 FUEL dual-battery electric chainsaw makes up to 5.8 hp – that’s the equivalent of 70 cc of ICE power to deliver faster cutting, fewer stalls, and a more balanced weight distribution for better control. Milwaukee missed zero opportunities to stuff its new 20″ M18 FUEL chainsaw with branded technology.

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Stuff We Use: Electric Ratchets

The Truth About Cars

It wasn’t too long ago that most tools of this type were ill-suited for battery power, choosing to run out of juice far too quickly (and generally at the colossally wrong moment) or simply didn’t provide the torque with which to perform any meaningful work. Fortunately, much has changed. Could the job have been done without it?

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Johnson Controls partners with UW-Madison on battery lab

Green Car Congress

The company’s donation to the facility includes advanced battery testing technology, which will allow students, faculty and engineers to study and to optimize energy storage systems. The research is intended to enable manufacturers to build systems that utilize battery power more efficiently.

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USDOT announces $84.9M through Lo-No program to expand advanced bus technologies

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The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will receive funds to upgrade its Cold Spring Bus Maintenance Facility with the infrastructure needed to charge zero-emission battery-powered electric buses as they begin to be introduced into the Metro Bus fleet. Milwaukee County. Central Ohio Transit Authority. 2,600,000.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Battery Powered Zero Emission Circulator Buses: Innovative Quick Opportunity Charge, Lithium-Ion Titanate Battery Powered Community Bus program. Milwaukee County Department of Transportation and Public Works, Wisconsin: $210,000. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. LiveWire Labs in Silicon Valley will communicate with Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee to “pioneer the future of motorcycling.” Fine with me. Is there a Right Way?

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