Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Alaska is also joining the list of top investors for the company, alongside a fellow Seattle-based Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures. ZeroAvia will set up a location in the Seattle area to support this initiative. capable of transporting 76 passengers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Operating 12 routes between hubs such as Seattle and Vancouver and across the Pacific Northwest, Harbour Air welcomes more than 500,000 passengers on 30,000 commercial flights each year. globally, all while providing few low-cost, fuel-efficient options for passenger flights under 1,000 miles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Chevrolet estimates quarter-mile times in the 9-second range. Just as the original 1969 COPO Camaro models relied on creative engineering to make them successful in Stock Eliminator drag racing, the eCOPO breaks new ground with its unique motor and GM’s first 800-volt battery pack. Testing is ongoing. —Russ O’Blenes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Percent of total miles completed on the Lyft platform in EVs and business-as-usual projection for California, the US leader in EV market share. Lyft expects these savings to increase over time as the cost of EV batteries continues to come down. Lyft said that the potential benefits to drivers are very significant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

It is the first of two cross-country routes the network will complete this year, and spans 11 states and more than 2,700 miles to take drivers from Los Angeles to Washington DC. The first cross-country route travels along Interstates 15 and 70, providing high-powered chargers with speeds up to 350kW.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

King County, Washington, Executive Dow Constantine announced that King County Metro Transit will acquire 120 battery-electric buses by 2020. As part of this commitment, Metro will purchase up to 73 battery buses from Burlingame, Calif.-based Metro serves Seattle and the rest of King County. based Proterra.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

However, for motorists whose daily vehicle miles traveled (DVMT) is significant, HEVs may be even a better choice than PHEV40s, particularly in areas that lack a public charging infrastructure. When the price of gasoline increases from $4/gallon to $5/gallon, the number of drivers who benefit from a larger battery increases significantly.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

The charging stations, powered by ChargePoint, will be installed at up to 15 stores along a 1,350-miles corridor from Seattle to Denver. The charging locations will be separated by about 100 miles, a perfect distance for even the lowest-range EVs on the market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen. The average US residential customer pays 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) , which means the cost to drive one mile in an EV is somewhat less than 4 cents. million miles per acre per year.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 17, 2017

Seattle-based startup Zunum Aero has received funding from Boeing HorizonX and JetBlue Technology Ventures toward making its dream of electrified air travel a reality. Sometimes billed as the Tesla of the airplane industry, Zunum is developing a relatively small regional aircraft with about 700 miles of range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

Proterra delivered its 100 th battery-electric bus, destined for San Joaquin Region Transit District (RTD) in Stockton, Calif. Many of the transit agencies serving these communities have also completed third and fourth orders for Proterra buses including San Joaquin RTD, King County Metro in Seattle and Foothill Transit in Pomona, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative , a study commissioned by a collaboration among nine electric utilities and two agencies representing more than two dozen municipal utilities, recommends adding electric vehicle charging for freight haulers and delivery trucks at 50-mile intervals along Interstate 5 and adjoining highways.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. In the course of a year, the community is designed to generate as much energy as it consumes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

The Kenworth T680 day cab’s fuel cell produces electricity to power the dual-rotor electric motor to move the truck, or it can recharge the lithium-ion batteries for use later. The T680 has been running trials in the Seattle area and performing very well. Kenworth’s hydrogen fuel-cell T680 is a reality.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2022

Via his YouTube channel Friday Adventure Club , a Seattle-based Amazon delivery driver posted his first impressions of the new Rivian EDV and praised its advantages over its ICE-powered counterparts. The driver loved the added storage capacity, the digital dash and center display, and the van’s keyless operation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

Tesla says that the Supercharger network has enabled an estimated 1 million miles of electric driving since going live in October 2012. Batteries Electric (Battery) Infrastructure' In two years, that coverage should extend to around 98%, he added. —Elon Musk.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

In the United States, the LEAF is among the top 10 vehicles sold in San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu. Electric cars from Renault and Nissan have driven approximately 841 million kilometers (523 million miles)—enough to circle the earth more than 20,000 times. Electric (Battery) Sales'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Richmond, Va.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

MyFord Mobile is available on Ford’s plug-in (PHEV) and battery-electric (BEV) vehicles, Fusion Energi, C-MAX Energi and Focus Electric, and is available for download both through the App Store and Google Play. More daily total miles. 84% of one-way trips are of distances 20 miles or less. More daily trips. Short trips.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2018

The range of the chargE can exceed 120 miles (193 km), while the powertrain can deliver up to 260 kW (about 349 peak horsepower).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Level 2 charging will provide for a charging speed up to 20-25 miles of driving range per hour, which would allow drivers to fully charge their electric vehicles at their home or workplace. The 2,800 Level 2 charging stations will be located at approximately 500 sites, all with more than one charging station.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2015

Proterra has completed the structural testing program at the Altoona Bus Research and Testing Center with its new Catalyst battery-electric bus ( earlier post ), in the process setting records for efficiency, gradeability, weight and acceleration. The full public Altoona report is available here. While conventional diesel buses average 3.86

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Seattle; and Washington, DC. The Focus Electric’s motor will be powered by a 23 kWh lithium-ion battery. Range is targeted to be 100 miles (161 km) on a full charge. The system utilizes a liquid heating and cooling system to maximize battery life and driving range. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.;

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Plug in America

AUGUST 10, 2022

In larger metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Seattle, where EVs are in high demand, prices are higher but have more inventory available than in suburban or rural areas. These vehicles won’t have the 250+ mile range of brand new EVs on the market, but they are affordable, reliable, and have inexpensive running costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. In addition, other use cases/technologies are also under consideration including targeted battery storage to manage peak demand and ease grid loads, etc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

This fast charger can charge the Soul EV’s battery from empty to 80% in about 33 minutes. Kia’s addition of six new DC fast chargers to Washington’s already-existing network of 414 DC chargers will increase fast-charger availability by 40% in the Seattle metro area and 15 percent statewide.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2022

The pilot program accumulated over 90,000 miles of real-world testing and resulted in 430,000 package deliveries. by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Rivian’s electric Amazon Delivery Van starts deliveries in San Francisco as testing continues.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

JUNE 4, 2008

I ordered a Warp9 motor from Carlo at EV-supply in Seattle. I also bit the bullet and decided to try out the Belktronix system for the controller, charger, battery-managment and DC-DC. The meeting was 46 miles from my work and I think I ran the battery completely down when I got to the charging lot.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For wide-spread adoption, the analysis assumes that the electric vehicle market share grows from approximately 1% today to a substantial share of total sales, such that by 2050 electricity is powering 53% of personal vehicle miles traveled. Transportation electrification can lead to modest, but widespread air quality benefits.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

Gregoire issued her executive order, entitled “Washington’s Leadership on Climate Change,” after testifying at the US Environmental Protection Agency’s public hearing in Seattle on the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Tags: Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Electric (Battery) Emissions Policy.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

These vehicles take currently available gasoline-hybrid vehicles to the next level, allowing drivers to plug them in for a few hours to charge the batteries and then drive emissions free solely on electric power for 35-60 miles. The cost of charging the battery of a PHEV is estimated to be just 50-75 cents per gallon equivalent.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 6, 2006

Plug-in hybrid vehicles would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 miles to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle—with even greater fuel economy possible using biofuels.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

One site in Seattle took 18 months. Amazon recently brought a group of journalists to a warehouse in Seattle for a first-hand look at one of its charging depots. At the Seattle warehouse, Amazon showed reporters a long row of more than 70 charging stations. We started by going where the power was available,” Goveia said.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 31, 2006

Furia, Chairman and CEO of AFS Trinity, said, “The power electronics, ultra-capacitors, batteries, motors and other related advanced components that we will integrate with Ricardo’s help into the Extreme Hybrid™ drive train are all advancing rapidly and reducing in cost. In related news, Edward W.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

The test charging facility, which can charge up to nine coaches simultaneously, was created with an “interchangeable design” that utilizes charging infrastructure from three manufacturers—ABB, Siemens and Heliox—meaning all the major battery-electric buses will be able to successfully charge at any station.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced that the City of Seattle and Nissan North America will work together to promote the development of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. Nissan has selected the Seattle-area as one of the first regions in the country to introduce a pure electric five-passenger hatchback in 2010.

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