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JANUARY 6, 2021

Workhorse Group has received a purchase order for 6,320 C-Series all-electric delivery vehicles from Pride Group Enterprises, a company with businesses in transportation equipment retail, wholesale, rental, leasing and logistics. The delivered vehicles will be distributed through Pride dealerships for fleet use.

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MAY 26, 2022

BC Transit in British Columbia, Canada has approved a $20-million contract to purchase ten 40-foot Proterra ZX5 electric transit buses and one Proterra Energy megawatt-scale EV fleet charger as part of the agency’s transition to a fully electric bus fleet.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The VNR Electric model from Volvo Trucks North America is the first zero-tailpipe emission, battery-electric Class 8 truck in Performance Team’s fleet, which will be on the road by end of year. Customers are looking for more truck power to meet high volume delivery demands.

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MAY 11, 2012

Waste Management plans to expand its fleet of natural gas-powered collection vehicles in the Houston area and open a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Conroe. The public fueling station will refuel Waste Management’s local fleet and sell CNG to commercial fleets.

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MAY 4, 2021

To date, more than 450 commercial customers in North America, including 200 top fleets and fleet management companies, have said they’re interested in purchasing the E-Transit. E-Transit is an electrified version of Ford Transit, America’s best-selling commercial van. No deposit or purchase commitment is required.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

Electrify America is investing $1.3 The investment will help Electrify America reduce its overall energy-related costs and lower the company’s impact on Sacramento’s electrical grid. Electrify America will purchase an interest in an energy storage program with the utility company.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

MBUSI) has purchased 72 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cell units to operate its Hyster electric lift truck fleet in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The GenDrive fuel cells will power a portion of the automotive plant’s lift truck fleet. —Andy Marsh, CEO at Plug Power. Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The program allows qualified fleet owners the opportunity to try out the latest in heavy-duty natural gas truck technology by test-driving a 12L near-zero truck. This “try before you buy” program provides fleet owners with the opportunity to haul loads with the new truck for up to two weeks. SoCalGas services 21.8

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Waste Management has launched a new local fleet in Louisville, Kentucky of 25 clean-burning CNG trucks and unveiled Louisville’s first public-access, 24-hour compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station. The fleet is the first of its kind in Kentucky, replacing heavy-duty collection trucks with new vehicles that run on CNG.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As a result, we’ve sold more all-electric commercial EVs than any other vehicle manufacturer in North America to date. This new battery technology and other upgrades give them the range, power and features at the price they need to scale up their electric fleets. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The inked agreement covers a full suite of solutions to operate the electric fleet including access to Ford Pro’s connected E-Telematics software and charging solutions in order to reduce costs and optimize efficiency as a part of the two organizations’ common zero emission goals.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

San Francisco announced December 11, 2015 that the City and County of San Francisco has completely ended its use of petroleum diesel in the City’s fleet and replaced it with renewable diesel. This switch from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel will achieve a 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the city’s diesel fleet.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

To keep those EVs powered up, there are 2,065 Level 2 chargers and 260 DC fast chargers in Con Edison’s service territory, more than 400 of them added in 2021. Electrifying Con Edison’s Fleet of Vehicles. Level 2 chargers provide 240 volts, offering up to 20 miles of range for every hour a vehicle is plugged in.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

AmeriPride Services, a leading textile rental services and supply company in North America, announced plans to replace 20% of the fleet at its Vernon branch with electric delivery trucks equipped with Motiv Power Systems All-Electric Powertrains. —Jim Castelaz, founder and CEO of Motiv Power Systems.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Plug Power, a provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, and Nikola Corporation, a developer of zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, have entered a strategic relationship focused on moving the hydrogen economy forward.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

(CWI) is supplying engines for two of the largest natural gas transit fleet orders in North America to date, with combined orders of more than 900 ISL G engines. In January, LA Metro announced its plans to order 550 New Flyer Xcelsior natural gas buses, powered with the Cummins Westport ISL G 8.9

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We have been certified as EVSE vendors and designated as official suppliers for governments and related agencies in the following states: Colorado The State of Colorado awarded Blink Contract 176608 for the purchase of electric vehicle charging stations by the state government from 2022 to 2024.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

New Flyer of America Inc. A fleet of more than 2,400 publicly owned transit vehicles serve Oregon, with ODOT resources helping purchase about half of these vehicles. Once an agency purchases a bus under one of these agreements, the purchase is recorded as a firm order.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority of Buffalo, New York (NFTA-Metro) has issued a five-year contract to NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America, which includes a firm order for 10 Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses and options to purchase up to 140 additional buses.

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APRIL 17, 2019

New Flyer of America Inc. TriMet partnered with Portland General Electric (PGE) to purchase, own, and maintain six ABB chargers and the related infrastructure. TriMet partnered with Portland General Electric (PGE) to purchase, own, and maintain six ABB chargers and the related infrastructure.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true. Said another way, residents of California purchased 390.9

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MARCH 30, 2011

America holds only about two percent of the world’s proven oil reserves. And I’m directing the Navy and the Departments of Energy and Agriculture to work with the private sector to create advanced biofuels that can power not just fighter jets, but trucks and commercial airliners. —President Obama.

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JULY 8, 2015

Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center, Inc., a wireless power technology company, have been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicle Technologies (VT) program to research and develop a system for wireless fast-charging an electric vehicle at up to a 19.2

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MARCH 26, 2019

Electric aviation technology company magniX and Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline, announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 560 kW (751 shp) all-electric motor that delivers 2,814 N·m of torque.

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Teslarati

JULY 20, 2022

The United States Postal Service announced today that it would increase the concentration of battery electric vehicles that would make up the 165,000 new vehicles it plans to purchase as a part of its plan to modernize the mail fleet. USPS sued over new gas-powered delivery vehicles by UAW & states.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Clean Energy Fuels Corp delivered 143 million gallons of Redeem Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) last year as robust sales of the carbon-neutral transportation fuel continued in 2019, closing out the year with significant deals throughout North America. In 2019 Clean Energy provided an estimated 16 million gallons of Redeem to UPS.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Sears Home Services, the residential and commercial installation arm of Sears Holdings, recently entered an installation agreement with Evatran, the developer of Plugless Power inductive charging systems for electric vehicles. Plugless Power is a Level 2 (240V at 30A, 3.3 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

Ballard Power Systems has received a purchase order from New Flyer Industries for the delivery of Ballard’s first next-generation FCvelocity-HD7 fuel cell power module to a North American bus manufacturer. Delivery of the power module to New Flyer Industries is planned for later this year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2019

New Flyer of America announced that a test demonstration with a New Flyer 40', heavy-duty fuel-cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) achieved 350-miles (563 km) of zero-emission range. These results exceeded the 300-mile range performance target by 17% without refueling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The Metro Link buses are based on Ford E350/E450 chassis powered by a Ford 5.6L ICOM North America has partnered with Winnebago Industries and their official distributor Metro Worldwide, for installation and distribution of ICOM bi-fuel and mono-fuel liquid propane injection systems for installation in the Winnebago Metro Link Bus products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Taking actions to expand the use of zero-emission vehicles, aiming for 10% of new public and private vehicle purchases by 2016. The Pacific Coast already has the highest penetration of electric cars in North America. Support strong federal policy on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2023

It will be one of Kentucky’s largest renewable power projects once converted. Rivian will work on the Starfire project with renewable energy power producer BrightNight and The Nature Conservancy. billion vehicles in the global fleet,” said Rivian Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe.

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Green Car Congress

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. Federal and state commitment to cleaner fleets by purchasing EVs and PHEVs. Earlier post.) This should be a U.S.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Proterra announced that the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) and Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) have agreed to purchase electric buses and chargers from Proterra, becoming the 100 th customer for the company. DTE Energy will work with DDOT, SMART and Proterra on the charging infrastructure.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

In finding that Electrify America’s Cycle 2 California ZEV Investment Plan meets or exceeds all requirements of the 2.0L The plan also includes investments for charging stations to support ZEV bus fleets and ride hail services, as well as residential and autonomous vehicle charging. Santa Cruz-Watsonville. Santa Rosa.

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MARCH 7, 2012

The President also announced a new research Clean Energy Grand Challenge—EV Everywhere—to make electric-powered vehicles as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles for the average American family within a decade.

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JUNE 22, 2018

the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, announce an award from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) for ten forty-foot, zero-emission battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses, with an option to purchase up to 30 additional buses over the next two years.

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