Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Volvo Cars will introduce its unsupervised autonomous driving feature Ride Pilot to customers in the state of California first. Once it has been verified as safe for use on highways, Ride Pilot is planned to be available as an add-on subscription on the company’s forthcoming fully electric SUV.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

In March, Cummins began delivering eight Cummins-powered all-electric vehicles to the United States Postal Service (USPS) in California. The fully-electric Cummins PowerDrive equipped vans are expected to reduce fuel and maintenance costs as well as eliminate emissions.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2021

The Porsche Macan is going electric, although that doesn’t mean the gas version is going away. Subaru’s first electric vehicle for the U.S. And Minnesota is looking like the first in the Midwest to adopt California’s EV mandate. The fully electric version of Porsche’s. has a name.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With more electric vehicle choices than ever, EV sales in the US are hitting new heights. In just the first half of 2023, over 670,000 EVs were sold with over 80 percent of those fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs). It took 8 years for the first million EV sales – but now more than a […]

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Teslarati

AUGUST 4, 2023

California continues to dominate the nation’s electric vehicle sales volume as the state achieved a first in the second quarter of the year. Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that, for the first time, California had sold one EV for every four cars sold in the last quarter. million units.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

UPS announced the deployment of 100 fully electric commercial vehicles that will be delivering packages around the state. The vehicles were manufactured in Stockton, California by Electric Vehicles International ( EVI ). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Volvo Trucks will introduce all-electric Volvo VNR regional-haul demonstrators in California next year, operating in distribution, regional-haul and drayage operations. Sales of the VNR Electric in North America will begin in 2020. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has preliminarily awarded $44.8

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2018

In June, Daimler Trucks presented two new fully electric trucks from its US-subsidiary Freightliner. Penske will get ten Freightliner eCascadia heavy-duty trucks for regional delivery and ten medium-duty eM2 for local operations in the Northwest Pacific and in California. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

The buses will be built in Lancaster, California at the BYD Coach & Bus facility. It’s great to see our community take advantage of funding that’s out there for electric school buses. This agreement puts the community on the road to being the nation’s first region with fully electric transit and school buses.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2020

California-based Karma Automotive set pricing Friday for the GSe-6, its upcoming battery electric version of its Revero, until recently slated to be called the Revero GTE.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

California’s Karma Automotive has revealed plans for two new designs for fully electric vehicles, as part of a revamped portfolio for the brand.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

EV sales are still booming in California—and they continued to capture an even larger piece of the market in 2023. of the market in California while they amounted to 7.5% of the market in California while they amounted to 7.5% That’s nearly one in eight vehicles sold in the state, electric or not. for the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Now, drivers in three California cities are able to test drive this new leasing approach. California is Uber’s leading North American market for EV uptake, with close to 10% of all on-trip miles completed in fully electric vehicles as of late 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2012

Electric Vehicles International is launching a new initiative to deploy 500 fully electric return-to-base medium-duty delivery trucks in California. We are thrilled that national fleet operators are choosing California to lead large-scale deployments of commercial electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2018

In June, Daimler Trucks presented two new fully electric trucks from its US-subsidiary Freightliner. Penske will get ten Freightliner eCascadia heavy-duty trucks for regional delivery and ten medium-duty eM2 for local operations in the Northwest Pacific and in California. Earlier post.)

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Fully Electric 2018 Industrial Industry 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Team Penske and long-time partner Freightliner, part of Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), recently used the pre-production, fully-electric Freightliner eCascadia semi-truck to pull a full-sized Team Penske racecar hauler to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ahead of the Clash event.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ford earlier announced that as of the end of July, F-150 Lightning electric pickup reservations have exceeded 120,000. Almost 80% of the customers for the fully electric Lightning truck are coming from other brands, with the majority of orders coming from California and bringing new people to the full-size truck segment.

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Silverado Chevrolet Available F-150 418

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The new trucks enhance DHL’s alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet in the US, which includes fully electric, hybrid-electric, and clean diesel—in addition to low-power electric-assist e-Cargo Cycles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For the grid, agriculture is one sector in California with the electrical infrastructure already in place to support rapid EV adoption. Farm equipment electrification can not only provide dramatic savings for growers but enable them to take control of their energy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Blue Bird now has more than 300 electric school bus units already delivered or on order. Based on data the district has provided, they are looking to save more than $4,000 a year on fuel savings and $2,000 a year on maintenance savings when compared with the diesel buses in their fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2015

The California cities of Stockton and Porterville have each placed orders with Proterra for its new Catalyst battery-electric bus with funding from the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District. —Donna DeMartino, General Manager/CEO at RTD.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2016

a provider of hybrid and electric vehicle drivetrain solutions, is increasing the size and capacity of its Dixon, California vehicle engineering and support facility. Efficient Drivetrains, Inc., The company will be moving its current Dixon operations into a new 10,000 square foot space in February of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

The State of California is awarding $9 million to the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) for 27 zero-emission trucks to replace diesel-powered heavy-duty tractors used in rail yards and large-scale freight distribution centers. The fully electric trucks will be designed and manufactured by BYD in Lancaster, California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

Following a successful initial pilot program using nine Lightning Electric Ford Transit 350HD electric vans in the US late last year, DHL Express plans to deploy the remaining 89 electric vehicles this year in New York and California. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

Nearly 70% of Mach-E orders are from competitive brands, Ford said, while just over one-fifth were sold in California. With the fully electric Mustang Mach-E, Ford F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid and Escape and Explorer hybrids, overall electrified vehicle sales rose 56.1% Year-to-date, 3,977 units of the Mach-E have been sold.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

ElDorado National (California) or ENC, a subsidiary of REV Group, will launch its fully electric Axess bus at APTA Expo 8-10 November 2021. In addition to being the first zero-corrosion battery electric bus (BEB), it is the first to offer 40', 35' and 32' bus lengths.

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Batteries Battery Electric Electrical 415

InsideEVs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Toyota has pushed back against fully electric cars for years, as it believes car shoppers don't really want them.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Boundary Layer Technologies, a California-based marine technology startup, revealed its concept design for a fully electric hydrofoiling ferry: ELECTRA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a $6-million grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest electric vehicle (EV) fleet charging systems in the United States that will be powered by a solar and storage microgrid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

More than 100 electric school buses, powered by a Cummins fully electric drivetrain, have been ordered to date from Blue Bird Corporation, a school bus manufacturer highly focused on alternative fuel technologies. Blue Bird electric buses are already operating in California, North Dakota and Washington.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Which brand revealed a fully electric convertible available this year? Which state opted to join California’s EV mandate this week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending February 17, 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) will install an innovative clean energy microgrid and EV fleet charging system with Proterra and Scale Microgrid Solutions to help power the agency’s transition to a 100% zero-emission bus fleet, following a grant that was awarded for the project by the California Energy Commission this week.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Monarch Tractor has announced that its Founder Series MK-V tractor has started coming off the production line at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Livermore, California. The Monarch MK-V is a fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor with lots of bells and whistles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Soderholm will be installing Lightning eMotors’ fully electric powertrain systems in repowered applications in Hawaii, as well as buying new Lightning eMotors’ vans and shuttle buses. Its customers include ABC Companies, Amazon, DHL, California State Hospitals, Fluid Trucks, and various public transit agencies.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

B–ON, the EV solutions provider and StreetScooter successor, will partner with US-based producer of luxury EVs Karma Automotive to produce B–ON’s fully electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs) at their facility in California starting this year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

California’s Wisk Aero claims that it has developed the first self-flying, fully electric, 4-seat air taxi in the world. But how real […].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2022

The two companies announced their collaboration in late March 2021, and by December the first of several emissions-free, fully electric terminal tractor prototypes were ready to undergo testing with TICO’s leading fleet partners. The US-compliant RTX model arrived at the Los Angeles Fire Department in California last month.

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