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Smith Electric Vehicles US Selects Kansas City for Electric Truck Assembly Plant; Newton Model to Be First

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Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation ( SEV US ) has selected Kansas City as the site for its US assembly plant. The new assembly plant will be located at a portion of an airline overhaul base at Kansas City International (KCI) Airport and is expected to create 120 jobs by 2010. The SEV US Newton. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Clean Energy to build new CNG stations for multiple transit agencies and large school district; agreements with trucking, refuse and others

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will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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responder and vehicle maintenance technician training; develop. recommendations for uniform fire and building codes for alternative. Oklahoma, will recommend building codes to accommodate alternative. fueling stations; create a guide for building compressed natural gas and. potential users. INCOG Tulsa Area. Clean Cities.

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Smith Electric Vehicles, Altec and PGE Partner on All-Electric Utility Truck

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The Altec component, an AT37-G aerial boom, is a telescopic articulating device used for electric utility line maintenance and installation. The trucks will be assembled at the company’s 80,000 square foot plant in Kansas City. The aerial has a maximum height of 37.8 feet and reach of 28.3 Full battery recharge requires 6-8 hours.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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This project complements USDA’s Wood-to-Energy Initiative; it seeks to build a forest restoration economy by integrating energy feedstock within the larger forest products sector to sustain rural jobs and prosperity. ReEnergy Holdings LLC, has three committed facilities dedicated to purchasing from growers in the project area.

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Tesla supplier Panasonic to boost productivity before adding an EV plant

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Kusumi also noted that there was still significant room to increase production at its current factories, simply through improving machine maintenance and overall processes. location at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada, and the manufacturer is building a second site in Kansas. Currently, Panasonic has a U.S.

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Software and maintenance—the keys to making fleet EV charging work?

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President and Chief Commercial Officer John Walsh told us that the software and maintenance layers of the stack are the keys to charger reliability. The software is your fourth bullet, then your fifth bullet is maintenance “Oh, wow. The only thing we will not decouple is the software and the maintenance. So, absolutely.