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The Peterbilt 520 EV emerged onto the streets of outer Northeast Portland recently, becoming the city’s second-largest EV, behind the Fire Bureau’s electric fire engine. The truck cost $675,000, nearly double a diesel-powered one.

The truck drove like a hulking ghost in the near-darkness. Gone was the roar of an internal combustion engine, the quintessential booming that signals to every neighborhood when it’s garbage …

Buy an E-bus, hire a teacher. Texas Tribune: Keith Kimbrough is the first to admit that electric school buses were not an easy sell in the tiny, unincorporated town of Martinsville. In Martinsville, which sits just outside of Nacogdoches in the Piney Woods of East Texas, pickup trucks are the vehicle of choice, and oil…

Peterbilt has delivered an all-electric Model 520EV refuse vehicle to City of Roses (COR) Disposal & Recycling, in Portland, Ore. Leaders from COR

The state's first all-electric garbage truck completed its first pickup in downtown Portland this morning, representing a milestone in Oregon's clean energy transition and an important step fo. . .

Oregon's first all-electric garbage truck will hit the streets this month.According to COR Disposal and Recycling, the truck will bring quieter collections, cle

PORTLAND – Gov. Tina Kotek laid out a challenge: Within the next three months, the group will come up with a plan to save downtown Portland.

<strong>In 2022 Lance J. Randall moved to Portland to lead the Black Business Association of Oregon — a newly formed organization with its sights on attracting, retaining and supporting Black-owned businesses throughout the state. </strong>

Group provides resources, database of Black businesses, future prosperity center. 

Corporate social responsibility discussion anchors Oregon Business’ first in-person event in more than 2 years. Business leaders who want to make chan...