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Electric school buses from Thomas Built Buses and Proterra log one million miles of operation

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Thomas Built Buses and Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) unveiled their Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus back in 2018 , and there are now more than 300 units on the road. The Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley uses Proterra Powered’s battery technology. It has total battery capacity of 226 kWh, and offers up to 135 miles of range.

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Who says heavy-duty EVs won’t work? 170-tonne, 620 kWh battery-electric truck hits the road in Australia

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Janus Electric, a startup based in New South Wales, Australia, has partnered with mining giant OZ Minerals and logistics provider Qube to trial an electric triple road train. It sports 620 kWh of battery capacity and a Volvo 12-speed gearbox. It’s the heaviest-rated on-road electric truck in the world.” “For

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Tesla Model 3 logs 100,000 miles with little reported battery capacity loss

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Imam logged 100,000 miles on his 2018 Model 3 Long Range in just over two years, and has been quite impressed with the total cost of ownership. “I The total cost of electricity was $2,985 [3 cents per mile]. What about battery capacity loss? I was astonished at the low cost of maintenance and service for the car,” he said.

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Proterra battery technology to power El Dorado National’s next-gen electric transit buses

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Commercial EV innovator Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) will provide its battery technology to El Dorado National (ENC), a subsidiary of the REV Group , to power ENC’s second-generation electric transit buses.

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Batteries may suffer the same performance issues as solar – NERC

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As inverter-based resources like wind turbines, solar photovoltaic, and battery energy storage systems are introduced to the grid, the associated risks are becoming more apparent. These instances were the first “significant” events involving battery storage systems, NERC said. Have you read?

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Leclanché introduces modular, all-in-one, high energy battery system for use in wide range of hybrid and fully electric trucks and buses

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and rated to ingress protection level IP65 - INT-39 Energy HV has best-in-class cycle life of 8,000 cycles (to 80% DoD) to optimize the total cost of ownership of commercial vehicles

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Li-ion battery pack prices rise for first time, to $151/kWh

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Lithium-ion battery prices have been dropping for so long that industry players and pundits tend to factor ever-cheaper cells into their predictions, and many have made (dubious) comparisons to Moore’s Law, one of the core tenets of the computer industry. The results from @BloombergNEF 's 2022 lithium-ion battery price survey are out.

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