Electric Bus manufacturer BYD’s overseas plant, which is mass-producing sanitary face masks, is now running at capacity. The plant can produce 5 million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectant per day. BYD is growing its efforts to help alleviate severe shortages that have affected hospitals ozpills in the face of the COVID-19 global outbreak.

Generation 180 new “Going Electric” pledge comes with a fun video of UVA basketball greats and sports announcers racing in their traditional gas vs. electric cars. Who will win? Find out here. If the video isn’t your cup of tea you can follow the link to take the pledge and automatically be entered to win a pair of courtside tickets to a UVA men’s basketball home game next season.

Telework means working at any alternative location other than your central worksite. A telework program gives selected employees and managers the option of working off-site on a full-time, part-time, or even temporary basis. Staff may choose to work from home offices, telework centers, or satellite offices. How formal or informal your telework arrangement is depends on your company and employee needs. Some teleworking arrangements require nothing more than a phone line, while others involve a full home office setup. How ...

Electric Buses in Virginia

This is an innovative, sustainable solution that will help the environment, protect children’s health, make the electric grid ...

On October 11^th, Virginia Clean Cities supported an EV transit advancement webinar with DRPT to showcase policy and funding opportunities for electric transit vehicles in Virginia’s transit fleet.  This webinar is posted at DRPT’s MERIT page http://drpt.virginia.gov/transit/merit/operating-and-capital-assistance/ and a direct link to the webinar is https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8869740911636705037

Speakers included Jennifer Debruhl at DRPT, Angela Conroy with DEQ, Josh Baker with DASH, Alleyn Harned with Virginia Clean Cities, Kate Staples with Dominion Energy.

This webinar discussed the $5 million now available in ...

The Division of Energy within Virginia’s Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy (“DMME”), based on authority granted under Governor of Virginia’s Executive Order 36, has established the VirginiaSAVES Green Community Program.  VirginiaSAVES (which stands for Sustainable, Verifiable Energy Savings) is a unique public/private partnership sponsored by the DMME to provide subsidized financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fuel loans for both private and local government properties and entities within the Commonwealth of Virginia.  DMME has initially capitalized the Program with $20 ...

Tesla’s love/hate relationship with Consumer Reports is getting another nudge from Cupid this week. Its bread-and-butter Model 3 and Model S sedans have rejoined CR’s ranks of “Recommended” vehicles yet again.

Over the course of the past year, the Model 3 and Model S seem to have reached an equilibrium point; the Model X, on the other hand, remains too unreliable to recommend. In fact, CR says Tesla’s crossover ranks among the least-reliable cars sold by any brand in the United States.

“The ...

The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E was formally unveiled Sunday night after several teasers, corporate promises, position statements, and at least one premature release of information.

It will offer two battery capacities, rear- or all-wheel drive, and a top EPA-rated range projected at 300 miles or more for at least one version. Most important of all, it wears the Mustang pony—and Ford asserts its style, performance, and élan make it every bit a Mustang, albeit the first one to have an all-electric ...