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Chevron partners with Clean Energy On Adopt-A-Port initiative to supply renewable natural gas for port trucks

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on Adopt-a-Port, an initiative that provides truck operators serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) to reduce emissions. Chevron’s funding will allow truck operators to subsidize the cost of buying new RNG-powered trucks.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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But the time and cost of installing the needed charging infrastructure for electric trucks can vary enormously: “from a few thousand dollars for lower-power chargers to millions of dollars for high-power chargers” that can deliver up to 1 megawatt each. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 Onward and upward.

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Bill Ford outlines “Blueprint for Mobility”, calls for automotive and telecommunications industries to collaborate to address coming personal mobility crisis

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Bill Ford began talking about the future of personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion last year at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach. Despite this, car buying is growing at a rate of 7.5% In China, the world’s longest period of gridlock was registered at 11 days during 2010.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke. Any change is hard.

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

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Identifying the routes for the Pony Express model is an interim problem we need to solve in order to maximize utilization of the assets and get the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) at par with diesel. Charged : The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in the news quite a lot these days. Salim: Absolutely. Salim: Sure.