Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

XL Fleet is a leading provider of vehicle electrification solutions for commercial and municipal fleets in North America, with more than 145 million miles driven by customers such as The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon, Yale University and the City of Boston.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Boston (164 hours lost due to congestion) and Washington D.C. Boston drivers lost up to $2,291 per year due to congestion, followed by Washington D.C. It will continue to have serious consequences for national and local economies, businesses and citizens in the years to come. Wichita, Kan.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The electrochemical storage of electricity will be as important a technology to the economy of the 21 st century as the semiconductor chip has been. This is up from the 30% domestic value-added most likely to result from doing business as usual.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

CCI is a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment, particularly in disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2017

Fleets benefit from a 20% reduction in CO 2 emissions and an up to 25% increase in fuel economy. while existing customer The City of Boston has also reordered. XL Hybrids announced a new set of customers are installing its XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive Systems. and Dakota County, Minn.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Maven is excited to offer an all-electric fleet of shared vehicles for the gig economy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 4, 2021

Snow Bull Capital, a Boston-based hedge fund that invests in the green tech space, has developed a massive database that tracks the job postings of different companies. One of those companies is Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Northwestern team, with colleagues from Boston University and the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton combined climate modeling with public health data to evaluate the impact of electric vehicles on US lives and the economy. The open-access paper is published in AGU’s journal GeoHealth.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

Legacy automakers are still losing thousands of dollars on many EV sales, according to newly published analysis from the Boston Consulting Group. BCG estimates that most automakers lose around $6,000 on each EV they effectively sell for $50,000, that price accounting for any tax credits or other incentives the customer might be eligible for.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

Future cities include Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. Having unlimited mileage and insurance to cover personal and commercial use are extremely important for drivers in the gig economy. In Boston, Maven Gig will start with 20 Bolt EVs and will scale as infrastructure allows.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar was the first car-sharing company in the United States to introduce electric vehicles, starting in Boston in 2002, and the first to offer hybrid vehicles through a partnership with Honda in Seattle in 2003. Honda’s 2014 Fit EV, based on the popular five-passenger Fit, is rated at a combined fuel economy of 118 MPGe.

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Cars That Think

MAY 3, 2024

Boston Dynamics ] Here’s some video of Field AI’s robots operating in relatively complex and unstructured environments without prior maps. In this paper, we present an optimization approach to solving the loco-manipulation problem based on non-impulsive implicit contact path planning for our snake robot COBRA.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

The technology improves a vehicle’s US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) city fuel economy by 25%, providing a three-year payback in heavy use fleet applications, or immediate savings when combined with vehicle financing, according to XL. XL Hybrids was founded by MIT alumni and is based in Boston.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

The largest charging gaps are in markets where electric vehicle uptake will grow most rapidly, including in many California cities, Boston, New York, Portland, Denver, and Washington, D.C. In addition, market expansion, economies of scale, and improved charging technologies will promote higher utilization of chargers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

It is available for test drives and was showcased at the Massachusetts Clean Cities Coalition meeting on 13 June in Boston at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. National Fleet Hybrids is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Van Builders, Inc., a premium manufacturer of vans and shuttles that has been in business since 1992.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With a central location in the Boston metropolitan area, Somerville is a role model for “smart cities.” After Silicon Valley, this region has the fastest-growing economy in North America. In the coming years, Union Square in Somerville will be transformed into a flourishing city center.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2013

Green Button Gamer , based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award. DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

With IMA, the company expects to standardize modules and parts between the models to further expand economies of scale and significantly reduce EV development complexity and costs. In the existing system, auto parts can only be shared among vehicles that share the same platform.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

This order for 32 units follows an order last year from the Boston-area transit company for 35 units that were commissioned in September 2015. The results, logged through Lightning Hybrids’ telematics systems and confirmed through Kiessling’s fuel logs, revealed the improvements in fuel economy and reductions in emissions.

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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. Optimized gear ratios enabling improvement in fuel economy. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

The first taxi was delivered to Boston Cab Dispatch in December 2010. liter I-4 engine that gets EPA-estimated 21 mpg city and 26 mpg highway, an estimated 30% improvement in fuel economy compared with traditional taxis. The Ford dealership, Packey Webb Ford, of Downers Grove, Ill.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Kiessling Transit purchased a pilot vehicle equipped with the hybrid system through Lightning Hybrids’ Boston-based dealer, National Fleet Hybrids, in 2013. The results, logged through Lightning Hybrids’ telematics systems and confirmed through Kiessling’s fuel logs, revealed a significant improvement in fuel economy and emissions.

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Teslarati

MARCH 22, 2023

Agility Robotics, along with Boston Dynamics , has been a leader within the industrial robotics space, especially since the launch of its most advanced bipedal robot three years ago, Digit. Agility Robotics’ Digit robot has been released and is the first robot headed to production ahead of the hotly anticipated Tesla Optimus.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 Historical data shows capital cost overruns are pervasive in 9 out of 10 high speed rail projects and that 2/3 of those projects inflated ridership projections by an average of 65 percent of actual patronage. It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The goal of the project, which represents the next phase of Plantic’s long-term manufacturing strategy, is to improve economies of scale and substantially shorten the supply chain by integrating the supply of the key raw material, which it receives from its alliance partner, National Starch, with the Plantic manufacturing process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

The testing process compares fuel economy performance from the vehicle in its original condition with the performance using XL Hybrids’ charge-sustaining hybrid system. XL Hybrids was founded by MIT alumni and is based in Boston. The company had been targeting a 20% reduction. engine and 6-speed transmission.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The PHEV Ram 1500 pickups are part of a national demonstration fleet of 140 vehicles that will be used during the next three years to evaluate customer usage, drive cycles, charging, thermal management, fuel economy, emissions and impact on the region’s electric grid. Earlier post.). Albany, N.Y., and Charlotte, N.C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

cents for targeted regional road projects; 3 cents for rail projects outside of Boston; and. Raising the gas tax is a last resort, and without it, our economy will suffer. A 2007 report issued by the Transportation Finance Commission stated: “ The cost of this neglect will be felt in our regional economy and in our way of life.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 27, 2015

The book I was reading on the plane (Sustainable Energy, by David JC Mackay) suggested that my portion of the energy for the round-trip plane ride from Boston and back would amount to roughly 12,000 kilowatt-hours. Carbon guilt weighed heavily on my mind as I approached the car rental counter at the Salt Lake City Airport.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

nationally) including Riverside, Houston, Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Chicago. By 2020, with a continued good economy: Annual delay per commuter will grow from 42 hours to 47 hours. Additionally, some of the worst traffic cities also experienced some of the largest decreases in fuel prices (-4.1% billion hours to 8.3

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Companies like Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics have been working on robots that can navigate through human environments for literally decades, and it's still a super hard problem. This I think will be quite profound, because what is the economy—at the foundation, it is labor. So, what happens when there is no shortage of labor?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Metro and commuter rail were modeled after the San Francisco Bay Area’s (SFBA) Bay Area Rapid Transit and Caltrain while the LRT modes are modeled after San Francisco’s (SF) Muni Metro and the Boston Green Line. In terms of GHG emissions, large aircraft on a total g CO 2 e/PKT basis outperforms Boston light rail (the Green Line).

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

that energy would not, or could not, be used somewhere else in the economy, so it should not be treated as a “cost”—the authors note, “ the internal energy is absolutely necessary to accurately assess greenhouse gas emissions ”. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2023

Over the past year, Figure has hired more than 40 engineers from institutions that include IHMC, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, and Google X, most of whom have significant prior experience with humanoid robots or other autonomous systems. The company got its start self-funded, but is closing a Series A within the next couple of weeks.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Widespread production, however, could lead to the “end of poverty,” according to Musk, and lead to an economy that becomes “quasi-infinite.” (Take that with a grain of salt: Tesla cars were supposed to be $35,000 once upon a time as well.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. A paper on the work is published in the journal Chem. —Jeffery Byers.

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