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GM has acquired a 25% ownership stake in Pure Watercraft , a Seattle-based company that specializes in creating all-electric boating solutions. Specific product offerings that occur from the collaboration will be disclosed at a later date.

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billion over the next five years in the North American region (NAR) (Canada, Mexico, United States) to boost its product portfolio, regional R&D and manufacturing capabilities. This strategy builds on the company’s preparation of its Chattanooga facilities for local EV production. Volkswagen will commit $7.1 Assembly of the ID.4

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The project has a goal of meeting 2007 EPA PM standards by 2017 for an estimated 2,000 drayage trucks serving the Port of Seattle’s marine container terminals. Production of the 12.7 Omnitek’s technology reduces particulate emissions as well as nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions. L Series 60 was discontinued in 2007.

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Alaska is also joining the list of top investors for the company, alongside a fellow Seattle-based Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures. ZeroAvia will set up a location in the Seattle area to support this initiative.

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JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The feasibility study, announced in October 2019 and currently underway, is expected to determine the potential for a facility in Washington state that could supply sustainable aviation fuel for Delta operations in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles by mid-2020.

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Production vehicles may vary. Marine Propulsion: In addition to supporting existing GM Marine customers, GM’s strategic investment in Seattle-based electric watercraft company Pure Watercraft represents an opportunity to bring EV technology to the marine industry and help preserve enjoyment of the outdoors for future generations.

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Initially, the service is available in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart), and in the US (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Port of Seattle, SkyNRG and Carbon War Room (CWR) are partnering to investigate long-term financing mechanisms that could supply all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) with sustainable aviation fuels. —Port of Seattle Commission President John Creighton. —Theye Veen, CFO of SkyNRG.

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billion commitment to boost its product portfolio, R&D, and manufacturing capabilities in the North American region. That’s the equivalent of driving from Orlando to Seattle three times in seven days. Coupled with the $800-million factory electrification in Chattanooga, the opening of the BEL is the latest step in Volkswagen’s $7.1-billion

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JANUARY 28, 2010

The loan, which originated through the Department’s loan guarantee program office, was issued as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program, a $25-billion program authorized by Congress as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Washington DC, Seattle, Raleigh, N.C.,

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This initiative will focus on research and development and investments in feedstock production and refining capability in the UAE and globally. BIOjet Abu Dhabi: Flight Path to Sustainability will engage a broad range of stakeholders to develop a comprehensive framework for a UAE biofuel supply chain.

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MAY 14, 2014

Vossloh Kiepe, the producer of traction equipment for electrical vehicles, will be using the high-performance systems from Voltabox as back-up power supplies for some 200 new electric trolleybuses in Seattle and San Francisco. Delivery of the battery packs will begin in 2014. The partnership may also produce buses for other cities.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Richmond, Va.;

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Two geoscience faculty members at The University of Montana (UM) have started a partnership with Blue Marble Biomaterials to produce commercial products from algal biomass. We will then work together to harvest commercial products from that biomass —Carrine Blank. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 8, 2016

EPIC provided transportation, logistic support, aircraft refueling equipment, on-site quality control at both the Gevo facility and Alaska Airlines fuel operations at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and consultant support in the blending and testing process.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Reducing the ability of certain bacteria to fix carbon dioxide can greatly increase their production of hydrogen gas, according to a open access paper by Caroline Harwood and James McKinlay from the University of Washington, Seattle, in the current issue of online journal mBio. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

In our production process, not only do we produce renewable jet fuel, we also can produce large quantities of protein for the food chain and even sequester carbon in the soil. Gevo currently has the capability to produce up to 80,000 gallons of ATJ with plans to increase production to nearly 10 million gallons.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle). The 9 October 2018 rupture of Enbridge’s BC Pipeline near Prince George, British Columbia, forced some refineries in Washington to cut production because the pipeline carries the natural gas used to operate refining units. gal to $3.01/gal gal during the year.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Vilsack made the announcement with partners from private industry, research institutions, and the biofuels industry at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The grants announced by Vilsack in Seattle today came through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Volkswagen Automotive Cloud engineering team, based in Seattle, has enabled data to be exchanged between the vehicles and the cloud through Azure edge services. Production rollout is planned for 2022. The first test fleets connected to the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud are expected to hit the road in 2021.

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JUNE 13, 2017

As Proterra continues to build upon its 60% market share in the North American electric transit market, this new funding will support the company’s East and West coast production capabilities and its commitment to ongoing technology innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The company’s global fleet of series electric drive propulsion systems exceeds 6,000 today, and is operating in cities such as London, Paris, Boston, Seattle, and Hong Kong. These employees include a combination of engineering staff who build products and a services team that implements and supports those products for clients.

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APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate. EcoCar 2 Malibu. Click to enlarge.

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EnerG2’s patented carbon technology platform enables large-scale production of carbon materials that surpass the limitations of the carbons traditionally used in energy storage. We will use the funding not only to bolster our operational capacity but also to explore market opportunities with BASF.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

The T680 has been running trials in the Seattle area and performing very well. —Stephan Olsen, Kenworth director of product planning. Kenworth’s hydrogen fuel-cell T680 is a reality. The next step is real-world testing with Total Transportation Services Inc. TTSI) at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California.

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JULY 11, 2012

TomTom, the leading supplier of in-car location and navigation products and services, launched its first quarterly Congestion Index. Seattle, 25%. Based on this analysis, Seattle saw the biggest increase in traffic congestion, while Houston, Ottawa and San Francisco also saw increased levels of congestion. Vancouver, 30%.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Seattle, Washington-based EnerG2 ( earlier post ) recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new manufacturing facility for electric vehicle battery components in Albany, Oregon. Previous to the Department of Energy award, the company was using rented equipment and facilities for its production.

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JULY 24, 2010

The flight was part of Alaska Air Group’s “Greener Skies” project at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) focused on using satellite-based guidance technology pioneered by Alaska Airlines to fly more efficient landing procedures that will reduce environmental impacts in the Puget Sound region.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The COPO nameplate is a nod to the Central Office Production Order system, which Chevrolet dealers used to build one-of-a-kind high-performance models. It is connected to a conventional racing-prepared “Turbo 400” automatic transmission that channels the motor’s torque to the same solid rear axle used in the production COPO Camaro race cars.

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Buses powered by HybriDrive currently transport nearly two million passengers a day in cities across North America and the UK including Houston, London, Manchester, New York, Ottawa, Oxford, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and others. Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011.

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In partially automated driving mode, the trip will include stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York, Miami, San Antonio and San Diego. The Valeo SCALA laser scanner, the product of a partnership with ibeo , is the key enabler in the Cruise4U system.

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Advantages of MRC’s SMC for the Prius PHV include a substantial reduction in the vehicle’s weight, the achievement of a great component performance, an excellent formability that enables production of complicatedly shaped components, and productivity necessary for manufacture of components for mass-produced vehicles.

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As we combine our companies, we will expand the reach of REG along the west coast, including production and distribution. Based in Ames, Iowa, REG is the leading North American producer and marketer of biomass-based diesel, with 10 active biorefineries across the US and a nationwide production, distribution and logistics system.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Production is to start in China the same year and a member of the ID. family will roll off the production line in the USA from 2022 onwards. Progress is also being made with the establishment of the new Development Center in Seattle. Volkswagen is preparing its digital ecosystem for the core markets of the future ID.

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Girvetz, who is now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington, Seattle. The combined production value of these crops was $7.8 Their study appears 22 July in the online journal PLoS ONE. billion in 2007, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

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The clean syngas may then be converted into transportation fuels such as ethanol and diesel, or industrial products such as hydrogen and methanol. In a secondary stage of the PEM (Plasma Enhanced Melter) process, inorganic (non-carbon-based) materials are transformed into environmentally inert products.

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