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APRIL 11, 2015

The US Defense Logistics Agency-Energy (DLA-Energy) has posted the Rocky Mountain/West Coast/Offshore (RMW) solicitation ( SPE600-15-R-0711 ) on behalf of the US Navy for fuel deliveries from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016. The two approved pathways are FT (Fischer-Tropsch) and HEFA (Hydro-processed esters and fatty acids).

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

At the end of 2021, there were over 50,000 locations per Alternative Fuel Data Center. Source: Alternative Fuels Data Center. To aid in the rollout of all of this infrastructure, funding is made available to commercial EV charging station projects. Where to Find Funding for Commercial EV Charging Projects?

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MAY 10, 2018

ARRIVAL is the first commercial vehicle manufacturer in Europe to provide purpose-built electric delivery vehicles to UPS’ specifications. Since 2016, UPS and ARRIVAL have been developing prototypes of different sizes, and the first vehicles are expected to be deployed on the road before the end of this year. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

plans to produce and supply biojet and renewable diesel in Japan at commercial scale in the 2020s with support from the City of Yokohama, Chiyoda Corporation, Itochu Enex Co., The company will build Japan’s first demonstration plant for the production of biojet/biodiesel fuels in Yokohama, with operations planned to begin in 2018.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Under California’s current Transit Fleet Rule, public transit agencies operating urban bus fleets were required to select either a diesel bus path or an alternative-fuel bus path and comply with retrofit, fuel purchase, fleet average, and reporting requirements.

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MAY 11, 2016

The Consortium for Algal Biofuel Commercialization (CAB-Comm), led by the University of California, San Diego, has released its final report , detailing the accomplishments and contributions achieved in its six years of operation. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The first of the alternative-fueled buses are being deployed to service Dorchester and Berkeley counties. These clean-operating propane buses represent the largest order of alternative-fueled school buses that the state has placed in the last 30 years. Equipped with Ford Motor Company’s 6.8L

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The blended product will be used at Southwest’s Bay Area operations with first delivery expected in 2016. RRB’s first plant will convert approximately 140,000 dry tons of woody biomass feedstock into at least 12 million gallons per year of renewable jet, diesel, and naphtha fuels.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Over time, the governments of California, British Columbia, Oregon and Washington will work together to build an integrated West Coast market for low-carbon fuels that keeps energy dollars in the region, creates economic development opportunities for regional fuel production, and ensures predictability and consistency in the market.

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APRIL 26, 2016

The FOA will include the three areas of interest: medium- and heavy-duty plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs); direct injection propane engine; and alternative fuel vehicle community partner projects. The engine must be based on currently-available commercial engines and meet current US standards for useful life.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The report provides an overview of the current state of alternative aviation fuels, as reported in findings by recent working groups, and also presents findings from the Alternative Aviation Fuel Workshop hosted by BETO in September 2016. Unlike other liquid fuels (e.g.,

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JANUARY 3, 2022

estimated that with conversion by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and upgrading, the wet waste resource availability in the United States could be converted to jet fuel that is equivalent to about 24% of the U.S. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. GLE and $0.9/GLE.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The new trucks will join UPS’ Rolling Lab, a growing fleet of more than 9,000 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles. Additionally, last September, UPS announced it will become the first commercial customer in the US to start using three medium-duty electric trucks from Daimler Trucks Fuso brand, called the eCanter.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, overall output will grow at a slower pace to 67 billion gallons a year (BGY) in 2022, from 59 BGY in 2016. The report, titled “ Biofuels Outlook 2022: The Dawn of a New Era in Global Biofuel Capacity Expansion ,” is part of the Lux Research Alternative Fuels Intelligence service.

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MARCH 2, 2017

The strategic alliance between Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH—which houses the MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus, and RIO brands—and US commercial vehicle manufacturer Navistar International Corporation ( earlier post ) has been approved by the authorities responsible. Volkswagen Truck & Bus has acquired a stake of 16.6%

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JUNE 11, 2018

These vehicles will be used by ENGIE Cofely technicians to ensure multi-technical operations and maintenance work for commercial buildings in the Île-de-France. ENGIE joined Michelin as a shareholder in Symbio in 2016. ENGIE owns, through its subsidiary GNVert, more than 150 alternative fuel stations in France.

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MARCH 10, 2016

This engine is scheduled for full production in April of 2016 and is suited for Class 5 through 7 commercial vehicle markets including pickup and delivery trucks, utility trucks, school buses, shuttle buses, yard tractors, and specialized municipal works vehicles such as street sweepers.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

The Navy will seek to purchase JP-5 and F-76 advanced drop-in biofuels blended from 10 to 50 percent with conventional fuels. The announcement marks the first time alternative fuels such as advanced drop-in biofuels will be available for purchase through regular procurement practices. —Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Mammoet, the world’s largest service provider specializing in engineered heavy lifting and transport will use cleaner-burning Shell gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuel to power all its cranes and trucks in the Netherlands. Shell GTL Fuel is an alternative fuel for use in diesel engines, which can lower local emissions (e.g.

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JUNE 6, 2016

The “Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Vehicle Technologies Multi-Topic Funding Opportunity Announcement” ( DE-FOA-0001535 ) seeks cost-shared projects across three areas of sustainable transportation technologies. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $22.3 The DI propane engine area of interest will receive approximately $4.5

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Volkswagen of America will invest $10 million by 2016 to support the build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the US, said Jörg Sommer, vice president, product marketing and strategy. Examples in this category include protecting and expanding existing tax credits in the Energy Independence and Security Act.

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MAY 12, 2017

In five years—2011 to 2016—the LCFS helped encourage a 57% uptick in the use of clean fuels in California. We strongly support the LCFS, which will reduce the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels ten percent by 2020, and even more by 2030.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Globally, the use of methanol as an alternative fuel has attracted interest because of its low production cost, renewable capacity, and good combustion-related properties (higher thermal efficiency, higher engine power, and lower regulated emissions). A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Air Canada is participating in the Civil Aviation Alternate Fuel Contrail and Emissions Research project ( CAAFCER ), a research project led by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to test the environmental benefits of biofuel use on contrails. In 2016 Air Canada continued taking delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The CLEEN team focused on nine projects in the area of energy efficient aircraft technologies and sustainable alternative jet fuels. The first of these technologies will enter service in 2016. Expediting the commercialization of “drop-in” sustainable jet fuels through support for the fuel approval process.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

residential, commercial, office). For commercial, standalone chargers, the rates can be higher. For current gasoline-powered ICE vehicles at an average fuel economy of 23.3 mp and a fuel price of $2.35 BEVs currently offer the most readily available alternative fuel source via the existing electric grid.

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MAY 19, 2009

US President Barack Obama today announced a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

billion liters) set under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) for this year, according to the latest Downstream Regulatory Quarterly Outlook from research and consulting firm GlobalData. The US biodiesel industry is on pace to produce more than the 1.28 billion gallons (4.8

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JANUARY 21, 2016

At the Awards Ceremony at the SAE 2016 Government/Industry Meeting, SAE International honored the recipients of the Ralph H. These “extreme case simulations” evaluated the limits of hydrogen fueling in relation to vehicle and station designs in order to give confidence to the implementation of the SAE J2601 standard. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 20, 2018

Electric vehicles are an integral component within UPS’s alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. Additionally, last September, UPS announced it will become the first commercial customer in the US to start using three medium-duty electric trucks from Daimler Trucks Fuso brand, called the eCanter. in 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

JetBlue business partners have tested the type of renewable jet fuel associated with this deal and qualified it for use in 2011 via industry evaluations that took place as part of the alternative fuels approval process of ASTM International, the standard-setting body for fuels used by the aviation enterprise.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

In total, these projects are intended to produce more than 100 million gallons of military-grade fuel beginning in 2016 and 2017 at a price competitive with their petroleum counterparts. The drop-in alternative fuels can be blended at a 50/50 ratio with traditional fossil fuels. Earlier post.).

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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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APRIL 22, 2016

This workshop will influence future funding opportunities at the Commission through its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, which provides up to $100 million a year for alternative fuels and vehicle technology development.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The total value of CO2 emissions was on a steady decline from 2007, but started to slowdown in 2016 as the fall reduced from -4.1 If this trend continues and the adoption of alternative fueled vehicles doesn’t accelerate, the industry will need to take more drastic measures in order to meet the short- term targets.

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MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels.

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