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Team Penske to be first with an electric truck at the track

(AP) — Team Penske will make his- the Coliseum was charged in Ontario
tory at the Los Angeles Coliseum this and will be able to make the round
weekend when it becomes the first trip up and back Interstate 10 without
NASCAR team to use an all-electric a stop at a charging station.
truck to get its car to the track.
The 150 KW charging stations at the
The No. 2 Ford set to be driven by Penske facility can get the truck to
rookie Austin Cindric in the exhibi- 80% charged in about 90 minutes.
tion Busch Light Clash was loaded
Thursday into a trailer at Penske Because commercial trucks require
Truck Leasing in Ontario to be pulled heavy duty charging stations, Penske
by Freightliner’s eCascadia tractor Truck Leasing is helping develop a
roughly 50 miles to the Coliseum. It charging infrastructure throughout
marks the first time in NASCAR his- Southern California. The company
tory an electric truck will be used by a currently has 20 charging stations at
team at an official venue. seven locations across the region.

Both the truck and Cindric’s car for The Busch Light Clash will run Sun-
The Clash are painted in a matching day night at the Coliseum in a six-
blue schemes that highlight the eCas- hour spectacular that will feature a
cadia. DJ, a halftime performance by Ice
Cube, and the shortest track in Cup
“We’re committed to leading our in- Series history as NASCAR renovated
dustry in the transition to commer- the stadium with a quarter-mile as-
cial electric vehicles and providing phalt surface. age Southern California gas price of liner Electric Innovation Fleet when
increasingly more sustainable truck $4.99 per gallon, the annual fuel sav- it launched in 2018. Penske took its
options to our customers,” said Art Penske saw the event as an opportuni- ings would be about $21,623. first delivery of the eM2 box truck
Vallely, president of Penske Truck ty to highlight the push toward elec- that same year, and the first eCascadia
Leasing. “We continue to test new tric vehicles and said Thursday that But Team Penske stressed the electric was delivered in September, 2019.
and innovative vehicles in our fleet, swapping its diesel-fueled Freight- heavy duty trucks also diminish noise
and we have been impressed with the liner for the weekend for the eCasca- and air pollution, two critical propo- Penske Truck Leasing currently leases
performance of these Freightliner ve- dia will save about 17 gallons of gas. nents for reducing emissions while 10 eCascadias and 10 eM2 box trucks
hicles.” Team Penske estimated the same trip fighting climate change. in Southern California and will make
done five days a week would save 83 them a significant part of the Penske
A fully-charged eCascadia can drive gallons of diesel per week, 4,333 gal- Penske was the first truck rental and fleet once the units go into produc-
roughly 250 miles. The one headed to lons per year. Using the current aver- leasing company to join the Freight- tion.

Locked out MLB players reject offer of federal mediation

(AP) — Locked out players pretty much eliminated any past Tuesday, and the sides is no agreement by the end of
rejected Major League Base- chance for an on-time start to One day after MLB asked for are still far apart. February or early March.
ball’s request for a federal spring training and increased help from the Federal Me-
mediator to enter stalled la- the work stoppage’s threat to diation and Conciliation Ser- Players are upset payrolls There is little chance of ne-
bor negotiations, a move that opening day. vice, the Major League Base- declined to $4.05 billion last gotiations next week, when
ball Players Association on year, the lowest in a fully owners are scheduled to meet
Friday ruled out a third party completed year since 2015. from Tuesday to Thursday in
trying to assist the fractured They are asking for an expan- Orlando, Florida. Manage-
sport’s warring factions. sion of salary arbitration eli- ment’s bargaining team is
gibility, a significant increase expected in Orlando for the
“Two months after imple- in luxury tax thresholds and session.
menting their lockout, and minimum salaries, a decrease
just two days after commit- in revenue sharing and new Baseball’s ninth work stop-
ting to players that a coun- rules to prevent what they al- page is its first since a series
terproposal would be made, lege is service time manipula- of strikes and lockouts set
the owners refused to make a tion by clubs. back the sport from 1972-95.
counter, and instead request-
ed mediation,” the union said Teams say they will not ex- The players’ association has
in a statement. pand arbitration or decrease made $5,000 stipends avail-
revenue sharing, and that in- able to its members from the
“After consultation with our tensive negotiations on the $178.5 million in cash, U.S.
executive board, and taking luxury tax are for the final Treasury securities and in-
into account a variety of fac- stage of bargaining. vestments available on Dec.
tors, we have declined this 31, 2020, according to its lat-
request. The clearest path to The lockout entered its 65th est financial disclosure form
a fair and timely agreement is day Friday and shows every filed with the U.S. Depart-
to get back to the table. Play- sign of rolling past the sched- ment of Labor.
ers stand ready to negotiate.” uled start of spring training
workouts on Feb. 16. Giv- There is a wide disparity in
Owners locked out players en that at least three weeks income among players. Of
on Dec. 2, immediately fol- of training and exhibition the 1,670 who appeared on
lowing the expiration of a games are required and the a major league roster last
five-year collective bargain- need for several days for play- year, 1,145 earned under $1
ing agreement. There have ers to report to camps and go million, including 771 be-
been just three negotiating through COVID-19 proto- low $500,000 and 241 under
sessions on core economics cols, opening day on March $100,000.
since, on Jan. 24-25 and this 31 will be threatened if there