Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

compared to the same period in 2015. Explorer sales rose 18% last month over February 2015; Explorer is Ford’s best-selling SUV with millennial buyers ages 25 to 34, and the best-selling midsize SUV with women, according to Ford analysis of the most recent personal new vehicle registrations in the US from IHS Automotive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Earlier post.). The project will divert approximately 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2017

Amfora will use the technology to develop oil content in the vegetative tissue of corn and sorghum, meaning they can market a feed for dairy farmers that does not require them to purchase additional oils, such as tallow or cotton seed, to supplement feeds. Dairy cattle require around 7% fat in their diet to produce milk. 2015.00164.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

These new projects will accelerate a statewide hydrogen refueling station network that will support the commercial launch of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in 2015 and boost the installation of electric vehicle chargers along highway corridors and in workplaces.

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Hydrogen San Diego California Energy 354

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Eligible BMW i3 customers in ChargeNow DC Fast markets, who purchase or lease the BMW i3 on or after 1 November 2015, from a BMW i Center can enroll in the program. By the end of 2015, EVgo expects to have nearly 50 of the additional chargers installed, with at least one such charger in each market (excluding Portland).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

The 2015 e-Golf will go on sale later this year at participating dealerships in select states. The Audi A3 Sportback e-tron is expected to go on sale at participating dealerships in all 50 states in the fall of 2015. The Audi-designed Level 2 charger will come standard with the purchase of an all-new Audi A3 Sportback e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

The fee-based network of charging stations funded by the settlement and to be built by NRG will be installed in the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Los Angeles Basin and San Diego County. Buyout firm Blackstone Group acquired Dynegy in 2010, and power producer NRG Energy Inc. paid Blackstone $1.36

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The scenario outlines the introduction of more PEVs in different models and vehicle sizes in the 2015-2030 timeframe. Subsidies and other financial incentives for PEV purchases will be phased out as vehicle costs decline, though some policies, such as feebates, may continue to persist. Realistic combined FCV and PEV scenario.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing. The company was purchased by Avis in 2013 and operates as a subsidiary of the traditional car rental company. Zipcar Zipcar bills itself as the world’s largest car sharing service.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

District Court in San Francisco. After some background information on FSD, Tesla noted that each of the plaintiffs purchased a vehicle, and “all but one allegedly purchase the FSDC package.” “Plaintiffs knew at the time of purchase that their cars were not completely autonomous.

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

When Obama took office in 2009, while it may seem inconceivable today, consumers could purchase only one mass-produced EV, a Tesla Roadster. Gavin Newsom (then San Francisco’s mayor), Washington Gov. Fran Pavley is well known. But some of us back then still owned Toyota RAV 4 EVs. ” Pavley wrote.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. Large battery systems with thousands of cells are the single most expensive component in an electric vehicle, accounting for up to 50 percent of the purchase price. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Clean air vehicles must pay full fare to use the toll roads in Orange County but enjoy discounted rates to cross the San Francisco Bay Area bridges and to use the State Route 91 Express Lanes in Orange and Riverside Counties. plug-in hybrids) that may be allowed in high-occupancy vehicle lanes, regardless of occupancy level.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2013

The roadmap suggests the steps necessary to move from the pre-commercial phase of fuel cell electric bus (FCEB) deployment and manufacturing (2012-2015) to the early commercial phase (2016- 2017) to a commercial model in 2018 and beyond, including the requisite fueling infrastructure. Vehicles introduced in the 2015-2016 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. With combined state and federal incentives of $13,000 available to many customers, the purchase price could potentially fall to below $45,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Low Carbon Fuel Standard will reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by at least 10% in 2020, and fuels will come under California’s Cap-and-Trade program in 2015. It would provide important air quality benefits on a global scale and help to avoid increasing black carbon deposits in the Arctic.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

The Electric Power Research Institute, based in Palo Alto (Santa Clara County), will receive $220,908 to augment a current grant for the demonstration of five Odyne plug-in hybrid electric work trucks in the cities of Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco. CALSTART, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It can do this with little disruption to the way homes and industry purchase and use energy today. We can set a goal to have every new vehicle purchased be a PHEV. Then the package-purchaser of a PHEV linked with a solar or wind generator has essentially bought a vehicle and its fuel for the life of the vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Governor Kulongoski is currently pushing a plan before the state legislature to cut some hefty tax breaks for electric vehicle manufacturers who choose to come to Oregon, as well as provide huge tax credits to purchasers of electric cars. “My So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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