Electric Food Trucks and Scaling Up Solar Production

Today’s Solutions: January 23, 2025

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Electric Food Trucks and Scaling Up Solar Production

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Today’s good news: Summers talks about how students at the University of Illinois, Chicago have built a fully functional solar charging station for an on-campus food truck and other EVs. Then, Kristy discusses how the Biden administration is trying to drastically scale up solar production.

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This article was originally published on June 8, 2022

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