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Corporations Confront Obstacles In The Transition To Green Vehicle Fleets

CleanTechnica EVs

EVs have the potential to significantly improve fleet efficiency and reduce vehicle operation and maintenance costs. At the same time, EVs provide a simple solution to satisfy key company goals for acquiring alternative fuel vehicles and low greenhouse gas emitting vehicles.

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NY to award $18.9M to increase number of electric buses in state

Green Car Congress

Through this program, NYSERDA and NYPA will work with a competitively selected, pre-qualified contractor to study how to transition to electric bus fleets and install the needed charging stations in a cost-effective way. Growth of electric buses in the state.

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OECD paper presents and analyzes policies and programs to foster market growth of green cars

Green Car Congress

Given the specific barriers, suggests author Andrea Beltramello, there is a role for government to support the development and diffusion of green vehicles, including through policies to strengthen the markets for green cars. —“Market Development for Green Cars”. Today, the OECD has 34 member countries.).

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EU Industry Ministers Call for Harmonized EV Charging and Safety Standards by Mid-2011

Green Car Congress

In addition, the ministers, in their communication, urged European standardization bodies to develop, as a matter of priority by mid-2011, a harmonized solution for the interoperability between electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure and to address safety risks and electromagnetic compatibility.

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My Trial LEAF & the trials of public charging

Plugs and Cars

Restricted charge stations. In San Francisco at this moment there are, I believe, six deployed new J1772 charge stations. And three streetside at City Hall, trumpeted in signage as a "Green Vehicle Showcase." Usage at the City Hall location is restricted; only official city and ZipCar plug-in vehicles may use them.

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Hydrogen Is Coming to the Rescue

Cars That Think

Army Corps of Engineers Construction Research Lab Commercial truck and locomotive engine maker Cummins , which has pledged to make all its heavy-duty road and rail vehicles zero-emission by 2050, won a $1 million competitive award to build the H2Rescue, which gets its power from a hydrogen fuel cell that charges its lithium-ion batteries.

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4 Classic Car Relaunches Transforming the EV Landscape

Clean Fleet Report

Its fully charged battery will carry you 300 miles while you lounge on its wool-lined seats. ECD Land Rover Defender 110 The classic square edges and straight lines of the Land Rover Defender can join your fleet of green vehicles in the coming years. They’re changing what green vehicles can look like by reimagining the past.