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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The first production bus will then undergo testing through the Federal Transit Administration’s Model Bus Testing Program in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 2021, with production for distribution anticipated for Q4 of 2021. The Equess CHARGE prototype is complete and manufacturing of the 35-foot model will commence early 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Mack LR Electric will be manufactured at Mack’s Lehigh Valley Operations (LVO) in Macungie, Pennsylvania, where all heavy-duty Mack trucks built for North America are assembled.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Through subsidiaries, UGI operates natural gas and electric utilities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, distributes LPG both domestically (through AmeriGas) and internationally (through UGI International), manages midstream energy assets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia and electric generation assets in Pennsylvania, and engages in energy (..)

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Texas-based fuel company Nacero ( earlier post ) will build its second low- and zero-carbon fuels plant in Newport Township, Pennsylvania. Nacero plans to begin work on the Pennsylvania facility in 2022-23. The $6-billion investment will bring approximately 4,000 construction jobs to the area.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Key Team Members/Partners: Center for Automotive Research, Pennsylvania State University, SAE International, Saia LTL Freight, Volvo Group, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Proposed Platooning Location: Indiana; Ohio; Pennsylvania. Phase 1 awards are: Team Lead: Battelle. Contract Amount: $499,878.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

In addition, the electric bus completed testing with the Federal Transit Administration’s Bus Test Program in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in July, where it scored exceptionally well in all measurement categories, especially for durability and performance.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

cents in Pennsylvania. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the average fuel economy for all light vehicles on the road today is 22.3 miles per gallon (mpg) and the average annual miles driven is 11,484 miles. The Federal tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon, and each state has a gasoline tax, ranging from 8.95

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APRIL 19, 2022

Penske Truck Leasing is a Penske Transportation Solutions company headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania. The Ford E-Transit is the first all-electric cargo van from a full-line automaker in North America as the electric version of the Ford Transit. It has an estimated range of more than 126 miles.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed an electrolyzer capable of converting carbon dioxide into propane in a manner that is both scalable and economically viable.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Mack LR Electric model, Mack Trucks’ first fully electric Class 8 vehicle ( earlier post ), is now in serial production at Mack’s Lehigh Valley Operations (LVO) facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania. LVO is where all Class 8 Mack vehicles for North America and export are assembled.

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MAY 20, 2020

The wireless charging system was developed by Pennsylvania-based Momentum Dynamics, the provider of efficient, automated high-power wireless charging for electric vehicles. Link Transit is the first electric bus operator in the Americas to reach this technology milestone, and the first in the world to do so in under two years.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Gorte (University of Pennsylvania), Professor John M. Vohs (University of Pennsylvania), and Professor Hu Young Jeong (UNIST). Therefore, this work can provide insight into the rational design strategy of metal oxide with perovskite materials. —Professor Kim. This work has been supported by Global Ph.D.

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APRIL 1, 2022

Pennsylvania. Other signatories to the memorandum of understanding include: California. Connecticut. Washington, DC. Massachusetts New Jersey. North Carolina. Rhode Island. Washington.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

A team at the University of Pennsylvania is proposing the use of a liquid-organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC)—specifically, 1,2,3,4 -tetrahydroquinoline (THQ)—for use as an endothermic fuel for thermal protection of hypersonic aircraft engines. A paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel.

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JULY 14, 2022

Last year, Indiana had the largest number of new-generation diesel trucks registered (69.3%), followed by Utah (63.2%), Pennsylvania (62.8%), Texas (60.1%), Oklahoma (60.0%), Florida (59.1%), the District of Columbia (58.4%), Illinois (56.2%), Maryland (55.7%), and Wisconsin (55.5%). For the largest commercial trucks (Class 8), 62.5%

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Aquion will begin shipping production units to customers in the first half of 2014 from its manufacturing facility in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The batteries have shown high cycle life of more than 5,000 cycles at high rates, (100% DoD).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The signatories are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation, is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has converted options to order six more forty-foot battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses from New Flyer. The additional six will bring PAAC’s zero-emission fleet to eight Xcelsior CHARGE buses.

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MAY 10, 2021

The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal. The award value is approximately $1.1

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MAY 3, 2021

Selected projects fall under 12 areas of interest, corresponding to the selected US basins that have the potential to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Testing at the Altoona, Pennsylvania facility included evaluations of safety, structural integrity and durability, reliability, performance, maintainability, noise, fuel economy, and braking. The Xcelsior FCEBs are battery-dominant hybrids, based on the standard Xcelsior CHARGE electric propulsion system.

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APRIL 24, 2021

oil industry began when the first well was drilled in Pennsylvania. Once Pennsylvania shale oil was analyzed and determined […]. In 1848, gold was first discovered in California. In 1859, the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

CN’s Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad (B&LE) Company received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to help with the purchase of the battery-electric locomotive. CN has purchased Wabtec’s FLXdrive battery-electric freight locomotive ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2022

Chase will add fast charging at 50 branch locations, potentially in California, Indiana, Illinois, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, according to an EVgo press release. High-power EVgo DC fast-charging stations are coming to Chase bank branches beginning this summer—some likely with solar power.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. STA of Pennsylvania: A $185,832 grant to replace 10 older diesel school buses with 10 new diesel school buses for use in Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. Camp Hebron, Inc.:

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

A coalition of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia announced their intent to design a new regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels, and invest proceeds from the program into low-carbon and more resilient transportation infrastructure. (..)

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2018

With only the possible exception of the electric starter, nothing has done more to expand the adoption of personal cars than the automatic transmission, as reflected by one of the first cars so-equipped, being sold this week in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The 1938 Oldsmobile L-38 convertible coupe used the first transmission to select gears.

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Electrek

JULY 20, 2024

Logistics and LTL shipping providers PITT OHIO are adding four Mack MD Electric commercial trucks to their Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania operations.

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JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

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MARCH 13, 2019

(“NFI”), the largest bus manufacturer in North America, unveiled the Xcelsior CHARGE H2—ts fuel cell-electric heavy-duty transit bus—and announced that both the forty-foot and sixty-foot model have successfully completed the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Model Bus Testing Program at Altoona, Pennsylvania (Altoona Testing).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 17, 2022

First Pennsylvania, now Australia, then Europe: Wabtec is taking its 100% electric locomotives on the road.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Exelon’s utilities, which serve approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries, will electrify 30% of their vehicle fleet by 2025, increasing to 50% by 2030.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This project will have multi-county, multi-generation, economic impact and job creation in a formerly booming Pennsylvania coal and rail region, demonstrating that unprecedented emissions reduction and great long-term job creation are both possible. —Perry Babb, CEO of project developer KeyState Energy.

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Electrek

MARCH 21, 2024

Pennsylvania's largest solar farm has been awarded $90 million and will sit on 2,700 acres of the shuttered Homer City coal plant's land.

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Electrek

JUNE 9, 2023

The Homer City coal-burning power station – Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant – is going to be retired permanently in July 2023. more… The post Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant is shutting down in July appeared first on Electrek.

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JUNE 8, 2022

While drought is less of an issue in Pennsylvania than in other parts of the country where drilling is prevalent, the produced water that is not reused for hydraulic fracturing is transported to Ohio for disposal, adding to environmental concern of fuel usage and emissions in transport, as well as cost.

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