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itselectric secures $6.5 million in seed funding, will bring curbside charging to 7 US cities this year

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Millions of drivers rely on on-street parking, and have no possibility of installing their own home charging stations. This situation, which your correspondent has dubbed the Plight of the Drivewayless, was long seen as a difficult dilemma, but nowadays a visit to Oslo or London makes the solution plain: plenty of on-street public chargers. Brooklyn-based… Read more…

GBA launches second wave of Battery Passport pilots

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The Global Battery Alliance has announced the second wave of its Battery Passport pilot program. The GBA is a consortium led by battery manufacturers, including CALB Group, Contemporary Amperex Technology, EVE Energy, Farasis Energy, FinDreams Battery, LG Energy Solutions, Samsung SDI and Sunwoda. These companies’ products comprise some 80% of global EV battery market share…. Read more…

EGO Power+ 56V self-propelled mower, Eve Aqua controller, AeroGarden Harvest 2.0 – all at all-time lows, with even more

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We’re coming up on the home stretch of Amazon’s Prime Day deals, with the 2-day savings event ending tonight. Today’s Green Deals are all at their lowest prices to lend you a helping hand out in the yard and/or garden, with the headliner being the EGO Power+ 56V 21-inch Select Cut self-propelled lawn mower that has returned to its $530 low. It is joined by the Eve Aqua Smart Water Controller that is hitting a new $80 low, as well as AeroGarden’s Harvest 2.0 Indoor Hydroponic Garden System at a new $50 low. Plus, all the Amazon Prime Day Green Deals that have been collected together in our Prime Day hub here, which you can also find down at the bottom of the page. Time is running out to take advantage of all these insane price cuts – don’t dawdle. Read more…

Belgian transit agency awards agreement to Irizar e-Mobility for 100 electric public transport buses

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De Lijn, the Flemish government company that operates approximately 1,000 public bus and tram lines in Flanders, has awarded a framework agreement for 100 vehicles to Spanish bus builder Irizar e-Mobility, the EV manufacturing division of Irizar Group. Under the agreement, De Lijn has the additional option to order HOV e-buses, which are used on… Read more…

Study finds deploying EVs isn’t enough—reaching emission goals requires early retirement of polluting trucks

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Various countries and US states have set target dates for ending the sale of new ICE vehicles. California has developed what is perhaps the world’s most comprehensive plan. The state’s Advanced Clean Cars II legislation requires that all passenger vehicles and light trucks sold in the state be ZEVs by 2035, with interim sales targets… Read more…