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JULY 13, 2021

Southern California Edison has launched its Charge Ready program, the largest electric passenger vehicle charging infrastructure program in the nation run by an investor-owned electric utility company. Businesses, government agencies and other organizations in Southern California can now sign up to participate in the program.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

The California Air Resources Board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) rule. The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Phased in from 70% for 2026 through 2030 model years.)

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JANUARY 20, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) awarded $13 million to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and CALSTART to jump start California’s high-power charging infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc.; Momentum; ORBCOMM, Inc.;

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

San Mateo County Transit (SamTrans) in California has awarded New Flyer of America, a subsidiary of NFI Group, a contract for seven next-generation battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses. million bus rides annually on 70 bus routes. —Chris Stoddart, President, North American Bus and Coach.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The vehicles were manufactured in Stockton, California by Electric Vehicles International ( EVI ). The vehicles have a range of up to 75 miles and primarily will deliver packages to customers in Sacramento, San Bernardino, Ceres, Fresno and Bakersfield. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 29, 2022

Together the companies plan to obtain key environmental certifications for Cummins’ natural gas internal combustion engines to be used in Hyliion’s Hypertruck ERX powertrain. The ISX12N meets California ARB optional Low NO x standard of 0.02 g/bhp-hr, a 90% reduction from engines operating at the current EPA NO x limit of 0.2

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JANUARY 31, 2018

company, unveiled its autonomous, electric, last-mile delivery vehicle and made the first public road test deliveries from Draeger’s Market in San Mateo to two nearby customers. mile loop with traffic lights, lane changes, unsignalized left turns and two delivery stops. udelv , a Burlingame, Calif. The deliver route was a 2.5-mile

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Motiv Power Systems announced the new Argo Series electric truck featuring a medium-duty EV cab designed from the ground up, with customer-driven miles and fleet owner feedback built in. The launch of Argo is a strategic step for Motiv intended to triple the company’s market size.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

A newly released analysis produced by Beacon Economics for the nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank Next 10 has found that California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) market is on track to meet or exceed a target of 1.5 million ZEVs on California’s roads by 2025. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A Tesla Model S Plaid ran a sub-9-second 1/4-mile for the first time at Maryland International Raceway in the United States. The Model S has set numerous speed records, including the fastest 1/4-mile , beating the record the Bugatti Chiron Sport set in 2018. quarter-mile earlier this year, according to CarWow.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

But the study also found that EVs are generally driven less than gasoline cars, raising questions about their effectiveness as internal-combustion replacements. A team of researchers from the University of California Davis, University of.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Audi will be the first company to receive a newly established autonomous driving permit issued by California. Audi has conducted research over tens of thousands of miles in Europe and various US states, where such testing is permitted. California has allowed limited use of its roads for automated vehicle testing in past years.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Joby’s all-electric aircraft performing a flight test near Big Sur, California. Joby is a California-based company developing an all-electric, five-seat aircraft that can take off and land vertically (eVTOL). Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2022

Lucid announced that its first international plant will be located in Saudi Arabia. The new international plant is expected to produce 150,000 vehicles per year. Construction on Lucid’s first international plant is set to start in the first half of 2022. square miles) of land. billion over the next 15 years.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Fleet electrification provider Zeem Solutions has opened its first commercial EV transportation-as-a-service depot in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Southern California Edison (SCE) is the US’ first utility to receive and to test the eCascadia, the Freightliner Class 8 electric truck ( earlier post ). It has a range of up to 250 miles per charge while towing a 60,000-pound trailer. SCE is the first utility in the nation to receive and test the eCascadia.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Zeem Solutions , an electric vehicle (EV) transportation as a service company, announced a partnership with Hertz to provide fast charging and other services for the rental company’s fleet of EVs at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The San José, California, City Council approved the purchase of ten Proterra Catalyst E2 battery-electric transit buses and related charging infrastructure for use at the Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport (SJC). 19/mile, is substantially lower than diesel, at $.84/mile.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Ricardo Strategic Consulting is collaborating with the California Fuel Cell Partnership to provide economic modeling tools that will enable the assessment of total cost of ownership (TCO) of future fuel cell trucks, and hydrogen stations necessary to support commercial operation. —Piyush Bubna, Ricardo Strategic Consulting.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Southern California truck spotters will have plenty of electric semi trucks to watch out for as Amazon adds fifty Class 8 EVs to its commercial fleet. The fully electric Volvo semi trucks purchased will haul both heavy cargo containers and customer package loads in Amazon’s first- and middle-mile operations in California.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Ricardo North America (Ricardo), engineering specialists in advanced propulsion, software and thermal management, has added to its powertrain design and development expertise with the launch of a team in Southern California and a partnership with opposed-piston engine developer Achates Power. It’s a nice synergy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Southern California Edison has proposed an integrated strategic framework for the state of California to meet its ambitious climate and air quality goals. In order to support at least 7 million electric cars by 2030, California will need to have over one million away-from-home charging ports.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

What was the most fuel-efficient (mass-produced, internal combustion-powered, highway-legal, non-gray-market, four-wheeled, et freakin' cetera) new car available in the United States during the 1980s? If you want to be picky, the 198 6 Sprint ER was the gas-mileage king of 1980s America, rated at 44 city and 53 highway miles per gallon.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The new standards would increase fuel efficiency 8% annually for model years 2024-2026 and increase the estimated fleetwide average by 12 miles per gallon for model year 2026, relative to model year 2021. billion tons over the next three decades.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

UPS has begun a 90-day demonstration trial of the Electric Vehicles International (EVI) walk-in van (EVI-WI). Earlier this year, EVI received California Air Resource Board (CARB) approval for the EVI-WI. Expected average range is 90 miles (145 km), and maximum speed is 60 mph (97 km/h). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In the data EMIT has collected since being installed on the International Space Station in July, the science team has identified more than 50 “super-emitters” in Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Southwestern United States. For example, the instrument detected a plume about 2 miles (3.3

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JULY 22, 2020

Southern California Edison has set fleet electrification goals for 2030: 100% of its light-duty vehicles, 30% of medium-duty vehicles, 8% of heavy-duty vehicles, and 60% of forklifts. —Drew Murphy, senior vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development for Edison International, SCE’s parent company.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Using current technologies, all evaluated biofuel, battery electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle pathways offer significant C2G GHG emissions reduction compared to the current gasoline internal combustion engine vehicle.

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JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. 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.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. The last, noted Ryan Hart from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) in his talk at the SAE symposium, is not a negligible problem.).

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MAY 19, 2010

UQM Technologies has completed an agreement with Electric Vehicles International LLC ( EVI ), a California-based electric vehicle company, to supply upgraded UQM PowerPhase 150kW electric propulsion systems for use in EVI’s new all-electric medium-duty truck, the EVI MD and the all-electric walk-in van, the EVI WI. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 26, 2021

million miles. The packs are internally liquid-cooled, so they don’t require bulky fans, and the outside temperature does not play a major role in internal temperature management. Caspian uses prismatic NMC cells for long life. That is critical to Caspian’s long-life cycle even in the hottest of climates.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

The California state fleet has reduced its petroleum consumption by 13% compared to a 2003 baseline, according to a state progress report. In 2009, the State fleet began reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) with the elimination of 2,121 vehicle home storage permits. 281,619 gallons gasoline equivalent (gge) of CNG and propane (7%).

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While not as easy to find as the 240 in Ewe Pullet yards these days, I still run across one or two 140s in junkyards per year, mostly in Volvo brick-loving Northern California. Volvo was an early adopter of the six-digit odometer, so we can see that this car traveled close to 250,000 miles during its life.

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MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. New pathways can be added to the LCFS Lookup Table in two ways: fuel providers may apply to ARB for new pathways under the regulatory “Method 2” process, and ARB staff may develop new pathways internally.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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