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Awards include (ranked by amount): PHL Taxi Management LLC —$900,000 – to purchase and deploy 50 new CNG taxis in Philadelphia that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to build a publicly accessible CNG fueling station in the city.
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million currently approved Euro 5 and 6 diesels in the country, according to the outcome of the “National Diesel Forum” held in Berlin today between the automotive industry and the German Federal and state governments. At Wednesday’s National Diesel Forum. This also includes the further optimization of the diesel drive.
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diesel vehicles with defeat devices. diesel cars. Access initiatives like ride‐and‐ drive events, and an additional approximately ~$16 million spent on the operational costs of running Electrify America (e.g., The Consent Decree partially resolves Clean Air Act and California State claims against VW for equipping its 2.0L
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We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. Or they’re saying you have to buy [up to] two electric buses to replace every diesel bus because of this battery behavior impact. In our Gothenburg and Oslo taxi projects, the chargers are at the taxi stands.
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Autonomous taxi? And I think we could make one for a cost of maybe at at really high scale of about $10,000. You know Model Y is comparable to BMW X3, but its actual cost of ownership on a monthly basis is much lower. Does this cost less to transport or cost more to transport than, say a diesel truck?”
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