Cardinal News: British electric sports car manufacturer to be operational by mid-2025, with Danville native at the helm
“By August, Danville will be the only place in the U.S. that manufactures hand-built electric sports cars as RBW EV Cars, based in the United Kingdom, opens its first overseas factory. To break into the U.S. market, RBW needed the help of a Danville native. RBW has only had a presence in the city since August 2024, when it announced its first U.S. location, promising to create 144 jobs and invest $8 million in a manufacturing facility. But Peyton Sellers’ family has lived in Danville, on the same property, since 1946.”
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Loudoun Now: Loudoun Supervisors eye plan for Landfill Gas
“Loudoun’s landfill, which opened in 1971, includes 180 acres and will receive over 9 million tons of solid waste over its lifetime. “Whenever trash decomposes it produces a lot of gasses in particular a gas known as methane which is one of the most harmful greenhouse gas emissions that we have. So, most landfills flare their greenhouse gases, but we can do much better than that,” “RNG has a lot of value currently. There’s a lot of demand for this renewable natural gas,” he said. Part of that demand stems from Renewable Identification Numbers, which are essentially natural gas credits that can be sold or traded on the open market. “We can take those RINs and basically in a closed loop system get credit for them and use them to fuel our RNG buses,” Aveni said. “So, that’s what particularly attractive about these items.””
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From VCC’s website: Renewable Natural Gas is in use in several localities in Virginia and is a tool for decarbonization, especially in states with low carbon fuel standards.