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JUNE 27, 2017

UPS announced new sustainability goals to add more alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles to its fleet while increasing its reliance on renewable energy sources. In addition, by 2020 UPS plans that one in four new vehicles purchased annually will be an alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicle, up from 16% in 2016.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) presented the preproduction plug-in all-electric walk-in van (WIV) chassis at the 2010 National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show. FCCC also designs and manufactures alternative-fuel chassis for the commercial bus and motorhome market segments. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 5, 2010

Axial Vector Energy Corporation (AVEC) has developed a new hybrid electric drive train comprising a small axial-type, multi-fuel AVEC engine ( earlier post ), an AVEC generator/motor and an all new electric clutch. engine and 100 kW generator—in 2009. The new clutch is more than 80% efficient with less than 1% slip.

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MARCH 12, 2016

To highlight this achievement, United will operate flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco with the dedicated use of AltAir Paramount renewable fuel for two weeks, while also integrating this fuel into its regular operations at the airport. In 2009, United became the first US carrier to perform a biofuel demonstration flight.

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APRIL 1, 2010

AT&T announced plans in March 2009 to invest up to $565 million as part of a long-term strategy to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles through 2018. This represents the largest corporate commitment to CNG vehicles to date.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Key to this reduction has been the development and implementation of a plan that has improved the State fleet’s overall use of alternative fuels, the reduction of unneeded fleet vehicles, and reducing unnecessary vehicle miles traveled. 281,619 gallons gasoline equivalent (gge) of CNG and propane (7%). 216,723 gallons E85 ethanol (6%).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

will purchase 51 additional gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics Corporation. The FedEx fleet of hybrid electric and electric vehicles will total 325 when all 51 hybrid step-vans are delivered during November and December of 2009. FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp.,

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JULY 26, 2010

The goal was announced as UPS released the latest annual update of its corporate Sustainability Report. The new goal builds on gains UPS already has made by increasing its US MPG 10% between 2000 and 2009 and applies to a US ground fleet of 60,000 vehicles. In 2009, UPS drivers logged 77.3 million gallons.

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MAY 1, 2009

Fuel Systems Solutions , Inc. has agreed to acquire selected assets and technology for compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling products manufactured by FuelMaker Corporation, including the home refueling appliance marketed under the Phill brand ( earlier post ). million and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2009.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

In the report, The Economic and Environmental Impacts of a Corporate Fleet Vehicle Purchase Program, the group examines the economic and environmental contributions of converting corporate fleets from gasoline to compressed natural gas (CNG) and hybrid vehicles. Tags: Fleets Fuel Efficiency Hybrids. million vehicles.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Morgan Olson LLC launched the next generation vehicle with new exterior and interior body styling for the all-electric walk-in van (WIV). The all-electric chassis also was initiated before stimulus money and federal grants were available for alternative-fuel transportation projects.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Alternative Fuels Corporation (AFC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G4G Resources Ltd. The agreement follows AFC’s announcement of 13 May 2009 on the agreement with Turtle Island Recycling Corporation for waste material as feedstock for the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks in Sarnia, Ontario.

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JULY 29, 2010

The CPUC is evaluating alternative-fueled vehicle policies to ensure California’s investor-owned electric utilities are prepared for the projected statewide growth of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles throughout California, per Senate Bill 626 (Kehoe, Chapter 355, Statutes of 2009).

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APRIL 2, 2010

Yesterday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly established increasingly stringent greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles and fuel economy standards under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program, respectively.

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MAY 14, 2020

ASTM International has approved and published a seventh annex to D7566 , the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) specification, with support from the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). Blending: Required to be blended with petroleum-based jet fuel, up to a 50% maximum level. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. These alternative fuels will be more environmentally friendly, on a life cycle basis, than today’s petroleum-based jet fuels.

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MARCH 16, 2016

The research for the report was done by a team of graduate students from 2009 to 2014, and includes some 20 projects. Today, it is possible to identify a number of potential alternative fuels, including electricity, hydrogen, biofuels, and natural gas. —“On the Road Toward 2050”.

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JUNE 26, 2011

The biofuel will be produced from used cooking oil by Dynamic Fuels at its Geismar plant and supplied by SkyNRG, the consortium launched by KLM and North Sea Group and Spring Associates in 2009. The plant uses Syntroleum’s Bio-Synfining Technology to produce the renewable fuels from feedstocks produced or procured by Tyson Foods.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The joint authors of California’s Clean Energy Future are the Air Resources Board (ARB), California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO). Alternative Fuel-Vehicle Rulemaking.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways successfully conducted the world’s first commercial flight powered by a Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) fuel blend last October. Following along the Airbus Alternative Fuels Roadmap, by launching this new initiative with Qatar Airways, we have taken yet another important step to reach carbon neutral growth in the aviation sector by 2020.

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APRIL 3, 2010

We recognize that policies aimed at creating alternatives to vehicle travel also have an important role to play in reducing petroleum dependence and GHG emissions. Fuels should be evaluated on the basis of their full life-cycle GHG emissions, which will require additional efforts to improve carbon accounting practices. Heywood et al.,

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AUGUST 7, 2009

On 30 June 2009, two fuel cell vehicles, two Toyota Technical Center engineers, an SRNL engineer and a NREL engineer completed a 331.5 This evaluation of the FCHV-adv demonstrates not only the rapid advances in fuel cell technology, but also the viability of this technology for the future.

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APRIL 28, 2011

BioJet International operates across the supply chain by owning or controlling large quantities of bio-feedstock, developing refining capacity, solving aviation fuel supply logistics, and handling sales to end users. It is also the first Alternative Fuels Strategic Partner of the International Air Transport Association.

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MARCH 28, 2009

The Fischer-Tropsch process, which catalytically converts synthesis gas to synthetic fuels and chemicals, is “ very inefficient in that a large part of the carbon fed into the process ends up as CO 2 , either directly or indirectly from fuel consumption for heating the reaction. ”. Earlier post.). Hildebrandt et al. Hildebrandt et al.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

3246 , the “Advanced Vehicle Technology Act of 2009” covers research on light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as infrastructure and pilot programs. The target is vehicles capable of achieving energy efficiencies significantly greater than required under current and pending Federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Recovery and Reinvestment Act money will be used to procure the Navy’s HRJ5; Fiscal Year 2009 monies will be used to procure HRJ8 for the Air Force. The Navy plans to have test and certification completed on the most promising alternative fuel candidates no later than 2013, Kamin said. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This has forced almost all two-stroke gasoline marine outboards out of the market, while engines producing over regulated limits are still being manufactured and sold under a corporate fleet averaging system by trading credits from engines generating less pollutants than the mandate with those emitting more. fuel consumption penalty.

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, has made an initial 20 unit commercial commitment for a series hydraulic drive system from Parker Hannifin. The FCCC hydraulic hybrid chassis. Source: FCCC.Click to enlarge. Earlier post , earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2008

A generation of deregulation has culminated with free-market ideologues and corporate chieftains begging for salvation from the federal government once-despised as mettlesome. Chairman Carlos Ghosn has gone further than any auto exec in making an alternative fuel choice for the future and it is unambiguously battery electric cars.

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JUNE 20, 2009

Wayne Leonard, chairman and CEO of Entergy Corporation. The focus of the March 2009 symposium was the retrofitting of existing pulverized coal plants with the capture of CO 2 from flue gases after coal is combusted, or post-combustion capture technology. It’s basic economics.”

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MAY 19, 2009

EPA is proposing GHG emissions standards under the Clean Air Act (CAA), and NHTSA is proposing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards under EPCA, as amended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). Flex-fuel and alternative fuel vehicle credits. Additional potential credit opportunities.

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JUNE 25, 2010

Wide ranging sustainable aviation jet fuels, including quantification of benefits; and. Safety and transition strategies that enable “drop in” replacement for petroleum-derived aviation fuels. The new core will offer up to 16% better fuel efficiency than GE’s best engines in service today. The results were very positive.

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JULY 1, 2009

The arrival of the new 13-band CO² emissions-based Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) scale, with new rates applicable from May 01 2009, accompanied details of the future direction of the company car tax system in Budget 2009. Cars emitting over 225g/km of CO² qualify in new ‘Band M’ from May 01 2009 at a rate of £405. Up to 100.

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JULY 22, 2009

He identified three major themes in 2009 for renewable energy: “ Energy markets are undergoing their most fundamental changes since the 1930s; cap and trade is the most complex issue outside of health care; and schisms exist within the energy community that will grow stronger over time. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

billion worldwide—by 2050, this may not be achievable through improvements to the traditional internal combustion engine or alternative fuels: the traditional combustion engine is expected to improve by 30%, so achieving full decarbonisation is not possible through efficiency alone. Click to enlarge. Total Raffinage Marketing.

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APRIL 28, 2009

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