Electric buses, e-bikes and clean trucks: How Colorado Democrats plan to clear the state's dirty air - Colorado Public Radio
After repeated summers of wildfire smoke and smog forcing people inside, Colorado Democrats announced a broad legislative package Thursday designed to clear the air across the state. The centerpiece of the package is Senate Bill 22-193, a $124 million proposal that includes new incentives to accelerate the state’s shift to cleaner forms of manufacturing and transportation. Under the legislation, the state would establish new grant programs to offset the cost of new electric …
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Cake Is Now Offering Certified Pre-Owned Electric Motorcycles - Jalopnik
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Metro Transit updates lawmakers on plans for transition to electric bus fleet - Session Daily - Minnesota House of Representatives - Minnesota House of Representatives
How electric can you get? And how fast?The transition to electric vehicles is clearly afoot, judging from auto manufacturers’ advertising and communications with investors. And electric pickup trucks are currently hot advance sellers awaiting delivery.But what about buses? With an eye on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change, is it possible for mass transit to go electric?Last year, the Legislature and governor asked the Metropolitan Council — which is res…
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Lubbock Power & Light explains 'metering mistake' charging neighbor for wrong electric consumption - KCBD
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A meter mix-up left a Lubbock business owner paying for a year of her neighbor’s electricity. Lubbock Power & Light says this situation is rare but possible, especially for customers in a single building with multiple meters.“I spoke to a representative and emailed them pictures of the meters in the alleyway clearly showing how they were labeled with a meter number and the suite number,” Nicole Black said. “I had been incorrectly billed for my nei…
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Nationwide switch to electric vehicles could save more than 100,000 lives | TheHill - The Hill
The quality of air that Americans breathe in could stand to benefit greatly as the U.S. moves closer towards widespread use of zero-emission transportation. One report has found that shift can yield more than $1.2 trillion in health benefits and avoid 110,000 pollution-related deaths over the coming decades.The American Lung Association (ALA) published itsZeroing in on Healthy Air reportwhich outlined broad benefits that come with the transition to a zero-emission transporta…
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Flux Marine revs up its electric outboard business with $15M A round - TechCrunch
The race is certainly on in the electrification of boating … even if everyone is jockeying for position before the market materializes. Flux Marine is joining the likes of Pure and Zin in trying to convert some of our waterways’ gas-guzzling outboards to cleaner, quieter battery powered ones, and the company just raised $15.5 million ahead of a planned summer shipping date.The conversion of the boating world to electrics is progressing slowly for lots of reasons, but it also…
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Statement by President Biden on Electric Vehicle and Battery Manufacturing Investments in North Carolina - The White House
Today’s announcement that the electric vehicle maker VinFast will build an electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility in North Carolina – $4 billion to create more than 7,000 jobs and hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles and batteries – is the latest example of my economic strategy at work. It builds on recent announcements from companies like GM, Ford, and Siemens to invest in America again and create jobs. Our efforts to build a clean energy economy are dri…
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600-HP Lotus Eletre Electric SUV Is a Lotus Unlike Any Other - Car and Driver
The new Lotus Eletre is an all-wheel-drive EV SUV with at least 600 hp.It has an 800-volt battery with more than 100.0-kWh of capacity and a claimed range that equates to about 315 miles using the EPA cycle.The Eletre will be built in Wuhan, China and will reach the U.S. in 2024.Almost all street-legal Lotus models have followed the same recipe for light, simple sports cars—with only a minority featuring more than two seats. So it’s no exaggeration to say that the freshly un…
Read moreGovernor Cooper Announces VinFast Automotive Selects North Carolina for Electric Vehicle Assembly Plant | NC Gov. Cooper - Governor Roy Cooper
VinFast, the Vietnamese auto manufacturer building a new line of electric vehicles, has selected North Carolina for its first North American automotive assembly and battery manufacturing plant, creating 7,500 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper and Vingroup Vice Chair and VinFast Global CEO Le Thi Thu Thuy announced today during an event at the new Raleigh Convention Center. The company intends to invest up to $2 billion in phase 1 of its project at the Triangle Innovation Point megas…
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The Lotus Eletre is an electric SUV with hints of hypercar - The Verge
British sports car maker Lotus is jumping on the electric bandwagon with the reveal of the Eletre, a plug-in crossover SUV with design language inspired by the automaker’s Evija hypercar. The Eletre will also be the first of three new EVs that Lotus plans to roll out over the next four years, including a sports car (natch), a coupe-sedan, and another SUV.Previously called Type 132, the Eletre is the Geely-owned automaker’s second electric vehicle and will feature futuristic …
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Utah couple accused of using electric shocks on 2 kids - ABC News
Utah police have arrested a couple accused of using electric shocks to discipline two children ByThe Associated PressMarch 29, 2022, 7:43 PM• 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article OGDEN, Utah -- A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested in Utah on allegations that they inflicted electric shocks to discipline two children while they were handcuffed to each other, police said.Video security footage shows the two adults using “an electronic shocking de…
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Are Electric Vehicles and Batteries Bad for the Environment? - Snopes.com
Eco-friendly electric vehicles (EVs) are bad for the environment. ContextWhile there are elements of truth to the Facebook post that makes this claim, it largely overgeneralizes the science behind batteries and electric vehicles, and does not list sources to support its statements. We fact-check the post point by point below. OriginIn mid-March 2022, a widely circulated meme was sent to our editorial team for investigation, which we determined contains a mixture of true, false…
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Smart electric panel company Span gets a $90M jolt of cash - TechCrunch
The lowly breaker panel has been around for a century without getting much love, and along comes Span. The company is making a compelling bid for better, smarter electrical panels, and just got a $90 million top-up to continue its evolution. The company is solving the challenges of electrification and micro-grid balancing, ensuring that the smart homes of the future have better visibility in the how, what and why of power consumption.Span raised $10 million a couple of years…
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More people researching electric vehicles amid soaring gas prices - KFYR
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - With rising gas prices, more people are looking into electric vehicles, or EVs, which run on a battery instead of using gasoline.Destiny Wolf first bought an EV in 2018 because, “the fact that you can, you know, drive across the state for pennies per mile.”“It’s nice to be able to just pull into my garage at night, plug in, it charges while I sleep and I never have to stop at a gas station,” said Wolf.Electric vehicles run with energy from the electri…
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