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

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Description. City of Fairfield.

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Parker and Autocar receive follow-on order for 29 refuse trucks with RunWise series hydraulic hybrid drive system

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Miami-Dade County in south Florida has placed a follow-on order for 29 Autocar E3 refuse trucks featuring Parker Hannifin’s RunWise series hydraulic hybrid technology. Earlier post.). Additional benefits include reduced maintenance costs, less engine wear and tear as well as extended brake life.

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Ford: boomers leading trend to compact utility vehicles

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Industry data supplied by Ford Motor Company and Del Webb, part of the multi-brand homebuilder PulteGroup, show that the baby boomer segment (ages 55 to 64), which comprised the growing market for large homes and made minivans and big SUVs vogue are now shifting to still lavish, but smaller homes and utility vehicles. cubic feet.

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Ford and Volkswagen expand global collaboration to include EVs, invest in Argo AI

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For Ford, using Volkswagen’s MEB architecture is part of its more than $11.5 As part of the transaction, Volkswagen also will purchase Argo AI shares from Ford for $500 million over three years. Collaborating with Ford, Argo AI also is testing its technology in Miami and Washington, D.C., Volkswagen will invest $2.6

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Can Software Save the World at a Profit?

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Collin Gutman is managing partner of SaaS Ventures , a venture capital fund based in Miami and Washington, D.C., Cloverly is also involved in carbon emissions tracking, giving companies and consumers more control over the purchase of carbon offsets, instead of having businesses buy offsets as an all or nothing decision.

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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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The company’s air system includes international air hubs in Cologne, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; Miami (to serve Latin America), an intra-Asia hub in the Philippines; and UPS Worldport, the Louisville, Ky., customers rely on the transportation and logistics industry as part of their supply chains. million metric tonnes in 2007.

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Car Charging Group acquires Blink-related charging assets of ECOtality; Access Control Group and Intertek buyers of other assets

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a nationwide provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging services, won the bid to purchase the Blink-related assets of bankrupt ECOtality. Blink Acquisition, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Car Charging Group, Inc., Earlier post.) Earlier post.) The DOE had awarded about $115 million to ECOtality, of which about $96 million was paid.

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