by dankeelan | Mar 28, 2024 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Michigan
Ford Motor Co. is dramatically cutting the hourly workforce at the factory that builds the Ford F-150 Lightning starting next week, as the automaker slashes product targets of its all-electric pickup. Of the 2,100 workers who make up three work crews at the Rouge...
by dankeelan | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured, Michigan, Nuclear
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured the Holtec Palisades Training Center on Thursday before announcing the federal government’s commitment to offer a $1.5 billion conditional loan to restart the Palisades nuclear plant. ...
by dankeelan | Mar 21, 2024 | E-Bikes, Michigan
Mountain bicyclists may soon have some company on trails across Michigan: riders on electric bicycles. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has proposed opening state park trails currently off-limits to e-bikes. Class 1 e-bikes, already allowed on...
by dankeelan | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured, Hydrogen, Michigan
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell said Wednesday that a Norwegian company will receive a $50 million award toward a Plymouth Township facility it’s building to help produce renewable hydrogen for fuel. The award to Nel Hydrogen from the U.S. Energy Department announced...
by dankeelan | Jan 25, 2024 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured, Michigan
Representative Debbie Dingell announced that $9.5 million will go to Michigan projects advancing EV and battery technology. Announced Thursday, the money from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will be for three projects to advance research and...
by dankeelan | Dec 7, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Michigan
All state government vehicles in Michigan will be electric by 2040 after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive mandating the state fleet be converted to zero-emission on Dec. 5. Departments across the state have more than 8,000...
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