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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

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The study found the two greatest opportunities to reduce community greenhouse gas emissions existed in ridership increases and reduction of fleet vehicle emissions. In assessing its transition to sustainable mobility, LTD employed a partnership with the University of Oregon (UO) to study opportunities and challenges.

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EEI encourages utilities to spend at least 5% of fleet acquisition budgets on plug-ins

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The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) released a white paper, “ Transportation Electrification: Utility Fleets Leading the Charge ,” that focuses on the electric power industry’s effort to accelerate the expansion of electric transportation in commercial and retail markets, beginning with electric utility fleets. Source: EEI.

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Rocsys robots help to make EV fleet charging more reliable

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Originally designed with autonomous vehicles in mind, Rocsys’s robotic charging arm has attracted interest from fleet operators. For the near term, Rocsys has its eye on another set of applications that may not seem so obvious—fleet charging. At the moment, our focus is mainly fleets—trucks, buses, yard tractors, etc.

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Montréal and Laval award Canada’s largest-yet battery-electric bus contract to New Flyer

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Currently, both agencies operate battery-electric bus pilot programs, and intend to be fully electric in future with STL and STM committing to buy only electric buses as of 2023 and 2025, respectively.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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Four large West Coast cities unite to buy 24,000 electric cars

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That includes the thousands of cars and light trucks in the municipal fleets of large cities. But to cut carbon emissions in a meaningful way, policymakers will have to look at other types of vehicles as well. DON'T MISS: BYD.

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Alaska Airlines launching 75 flights powered by 20% biofuel blend in the US; SkyNRG the fuel supplier

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and Portland, Oregon. To the biofuels industry, we say: If you build it, we will buy it. Alaska Air Group’s fleet of Boeing 737s and Bombardier Q400s are one of the youngest and most fuel-efficient among domestic airlines. Two flights will leave Seattle on 9 Nov. for Washington, D.C.

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