Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Electrify America plans to invest $200 million in California Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure and education programs over the next 30 months. Additionally, Electrify America will strive to ensure that 35% of the investment is in low-income and disadvantaged communities, as guided by California Air Resources Board (CARB).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has approved the US’ first standard to transition ride-hailing fleets to zero-emission vehicles by 2030. The Clean Miles Standard (CMS) ( earlier post ) sets electrification and greenhouse gas emission targets for transportation network companies (TNCs)—e.g., Uber and Lyft.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The revamped 2020 Karma Revero GT has been EPA-rated for 61 miles of all-electric driving. That allows the Revero to leapfrog past the Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid (primarily a vehicle for California) and its 47 miles of all-electric driving.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Country Hills Shopping Plaza in Torrance, California will be the site of the first DC fast charging station to open in the state as part of Electrify America’s plan to install approximately 160 charging stations in California by June 2019. Within California, average distance between stations is projected to be 48 miles.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2024

Today we'll honor the 740 longroof by admiring one that drove past the 400k-mile mark during its career. This isn't the highest-mile Volvo 740 wagon I've ever found in a car graveyard. That honor belongs to a 1990 740 Turbo wagon with 493,549 miles , spotted at the Oakland Pick-n-Pull back in 2020.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ditched an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash that occurred in California in 2020. In 2020, a Tesla Model 3 driving in Saratoga, California, crashed and killed a 75-year-old driver and his wife. A Tesla Model 3. Credit: Tesla).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

The California Air Resources Board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) rule. The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Phased in from 70% for 2026 through 2030 model years.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Blue Ribbon Commission on Lithium Extraction in California (Lithium Valley Commission) submitted its report of findings and recommendations to the state Legislature. Known Geothermal Resource Areas (KGRA)in Imperial County, California. Source: California Energy Commission staff.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The state of California will make available $450 million in grants to help fund rail and bus investments made by public agencies under the California Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program ( TIRCP ). There have been three prior cycles of TIRCP funding, in which the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) has awarded $5.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Confidence continues to grow among Volvo Trucks North America customers as orders increase following the next-generation release of the D13TC engine in 2020. Depending on the operation, the next-generation D13TC engine provides fuel savings up to 6% compared to the 2020 Volvo D13 VGT engine.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Electrify America recently unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, building upon the company’s existing BESS installations at more than 150 stations across the US, including more than 100 installations in California.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year. How the inventory is compiled.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted its Triennial Strategic Research Plan. The regional targets , indexed to years 2020 and 2035, range from -4% in 2035 for the Shasta RTA to -19% in 2035 for MTC/ABAG, SACOG, SANDAG, and SCAG. The goal of an SCS is to foster healthier and more equitable communities that reduce VMT.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, announced an expansion of its existing contract with the US Air Force’s Agility Prime program that increases the contract’s potential value by more than $45 million.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

Standard pricing for Electrify America DC fast charging varies by location; in California, the Guest & Pass Members price is $0.43/kWh. This charging agreement builds upon Electrify America’s previous agreement with Ford to provide 250 kilowatt-hours of charging for Mustang Mach-E customers, which has been on sale since late 2020.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2021

The new standards would increase fuel efficiency 8% annually for model years 2024-2026 and increase the estimated fleetwide average by 12 miles per gallon for model year 2026, relative to model year 2021. billion tons over the next three decades.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

A newly released analysis produced by Beacon Economics for the nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank Next 10 has found that California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market is on track to meet or exceed a target of 1.5 million ZEVs on California’s roads by 2025. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

California currently has about 369,000 plug-in electric passenger vehicles (PEVs). The California grid is well placed to handle rapid growth in PEVs but advance planning and smart policy can ease the transition for the state’s power system, according to Next 10’s report Electric Vehicles and the California Grid , by Anand R.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative (PEVC) announced that according to projections, California will this month top 250,000 plug-in electric cars sold since they became available on the market in 2010. —,” California Energy Commissioner Janea A. Times have changed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2020

A new report from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis has found that total US vehicle miles traveled (VMT) at the county and state level have declined by 61% to 90% following the various government stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. UC Davis Road Ecology Center). billion per week.

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Teslarati

JUNE 10, 2021

SpaceX’s longest-lived and most prolific drone ship has departed Port Canaveral just a few days after preparations appeared to begin for a several-thousand-mile journey from Florida to California. And the droneship is departing Port Canaveral on its way to California!

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

California Air Resources Board data confirms that the annual average carbon intensity (CI) value of California’s bio-CNG vehicle fuel portfolio in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program was carbon negative and below zero at -44.41 RNG use as a transportation fuel grew 13% over 2020 volumes, up 234% from 2017 levels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

There is strong consumer demand for Clean Cars 4 All (CC4A) which incentivizes lower-income California drivers to scrap their older, high-polluting cars and replace them with clean cars. As of 30 September 2020, $82.5 As of 30 September 2020, there were 10,379 participants. miles per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2017

California Governor Edmund G. billion over the next decade through an increase in fuel taxes and vehicle fees—including on zero emission vehicles (ZEVs)—to fix roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California and put more dollars toward transit and safety. . The bill will raise $52.4

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The Tesla Roadster is back, company CEO Elon Musk revealed Thursday night at a special event in California. This latest 2020 Tesla Roadster is shapely, sprints from 0-60 mph in just 1.9 seconds, and boasts a 620-mile range. Forget about the old, Lotus-derived Roadster. seconds, 0-100 mph in 4.2 MORE: Tesla Model 3 delays.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

has received full California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) certifications for its Type C electric bus, the Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley powered by Proterra electric vehicle technology. Operating range can be up to 120 miles depending on various operating conditions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan , which sets the state on an aggressive course to reduce greenhouse gas emissions an additional 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 under SB 32. This will require California to double the rate at which it has been cutting GHGs. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the 2018 Base-year Emissions Inventory Report , as required by Senate Bill 1014 (SB 1014, California Clean Miles Standard). The analysis indicates that the industry-wide TNC fleet has a 7% lower passenger occupancy than the California statewide passenger vehicle fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. Ride-hailing vehicles travel more miles than personal vehicles, making them more efficient.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 7, 2024

And the Chevrolet Silverado EV RST electric truck got a lower price than anticipated, as well as more miles of EPA range than it was originally supposed to get. A sharp drop in Tesla deliveries for Q1 makes it the company’s worst quarter since pandemic shutdowns in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2022

in both 2020 and 2019. deaths per billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the first six months of 2021. deaths per billion VMT in 2020 and significantly more than the rate of 1.8-1.9, deaths per billion VMT in 2020 and significantly more than the rate of 1.8-1.9, The analysis found that, nationwide, there were 1.04

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2022

Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service, announced the completion and subsequent approval of its first Systems Review and its first Compliance Review by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2012

The California state fleet has reduced its petroleum consumption by 13% compared to a 2003 baseline, according to a state progress report. The report concludes that the state is on its way to meeting the 2020 goal. 281,619 gallons gasoline equivalent (gge) of CNG and propane (7%). 216,723 gallons E85 ethanol (6%).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2020

The first of three new GreenPower EV Star shuttles will be put into service beginning Monday, 15 Jun 2020 as part of Electrify America’s more than $40 million Green Cities investments in Sacramento.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

Blue Bird electric buses are already operating in California, North Dakota and Washington. Additional buses on order will transport students in California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York and Québec later this year or in 2020. The Blue Bird electric bus delivers benefits to students, drivers and taxpayers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2013

With a proposed start in 2017, the Tier 3 program is also harmonized with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Low Emission Vehicle (LEV III) program—enabling automakers to sell the same vehicles in all 50 states. Proposed LDV, LDT, and MDPV Fleet Average NMOG+NO X FTP Standards (mg/mi). Model Year. LDT2,3,4 and MDPV. Model Year.

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