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EPA awards $5M to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) for cleaner big rigs

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $5 million to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) to help Southern truckers and small businesses to buy cleaner big rigs. Rush Truck Centers in Nashville (Smyrna), Tennessee as well as Tampa and Winter Garden, Florida will have retrofitted trucks in stock in early 2011.

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2025 Nissan Murano Review – Stepping Forward

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Full disclosure: Nissan flew me to Nashville, Tennessee and fed and housed me for two nights so that I could drive the Murano. The haptic touch works well enough, sure, and it lends the cabin a cleaner look, but I felt it caused me to take my eyes off the road too much for certain adjustments. There is almost certainly more to come.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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This project will begin to fulfill Mountain Rides' goal of moving from diesel powered buses to cleaner, cheaper, easier to maintain battery electric buses. Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority. Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System. 500,000.

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Joby Aviation completes a 523-mile flight in an eVTOL powered by hydrogen-electric tech

Baua Electric

Per Joby founder and CEO JoeBen Bevirt: Traveling by air is central to human progress, but we need to find ways to make it cleaner. Imagine being able to fly from San Francisco to San Diego, Boston to Baltimore, or Nashville to New Orleans without the need to go to an airport and with no emissions except water.

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This ‘supercharger on wheels’ brings fast charging to you [update]

Baua Electric

Bryan Frist , Yoshi Mobility’s CEO & cofounder, said, “By spinning off our fuel business and focusing all of our energy on solving hair-on-fire problems that fleet owners face, we are meeting the changing needs of enterprise customers while making the future of transportation safer, cleaner, and more sustainable.”

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2025 Nissan Armada Review -- Getting Back in the Game

The Truth About Cars

Full disclosure: Nissan flew me to Nashville and fed and housed me for two nights so that I could drive the new Armada. There's still a rounded boxy look, but it's sharper and cleaner that what comes before. That's a lot of change for a vehicle that, quite frankly, needed it. Let's start with the styling.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

Cars That Think

Silicon Ranch, based in Nashville, now has a pipeline of custom transformers to make sure supply chain problems dont stall its solar projects. About five years ago, de Vries grew worried that transformer shortages would postpone his solar projects from coming online, so he began ordering transformers years before theyd actually be needed.