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Peoria Welcomes Electric Transit Buses ElBae & Friends

CleanTechnica EVs

By Alyssa Brown & Selena Kyle This is the fifth in a series of blogs celebrating the grant projects funded through our Clean Air Act settlement with the owners of the E.D. Originally published by NRDC. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois.

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Looking Back on QARI Drives Green

Green Energy Consumers

Way back in July 2022, we published a blog announcing QARI Drives Green, our two-year partnership with Quincy Asian Resources, Inc , better known as QARI. Our partnership was funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center through its Accelerating Clean Transportation For All (ACT4All) program.

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A123 Systems receives interim court approval of $50M DIP financing from Wanxiang; responds to objections from Wanxiang, Fisker and others on asset sales process

Green Car Congress

announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the "Court") has granted A123 interim approval to use $50 million of Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing, which is being provided by Wanxiang Group Corporation (Wanxiang). Li-ion maker A123 Systems, Inc. Earlier post.).

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TTAC at the Races: 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Grant Park 165 Preview

The Truth About Cars

This year’s NASCAR Cup Series Grant Park 165 follows an inaugural edition of the event that was dubbed by most observers to be generally successful despite biblical rains. That number increased to eight days for the parts of the track that affect Columbus Drive – a key street in the Grant Park area of Chicago’s downtown.

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BMW and UC Davis Partner on MINI E Study

Green Car Congress

The UC Davis Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Research Center, administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies and funded by a three-year, $3-million grant from the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program, will conduct the research. Jim McDowell, Vice President, MINI USA.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

Fortunately, Bob Bath down in Grants Pass has already compiled a huge amount of information on converting a 5th generation Civic at his CivicWithACord site. This blog is the story of my path towards that goal. The Saturn came up a distant second, but everyone agreed that the Civic was the best. Damn the torpedoes. Here we go.

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NASCAR Grant Park 220 Recap – Newcomer Wins New Type of Race

The Truth About Cars

Shane van Gisbergen may not have much NASCAR experience -- he was making his first-ever start on Sunday in Chicago at the Grant Park 220 -- but he has plenty of street-race experience. And it showed.

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