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Houston-Galveston area to deploy 30 battery-electric delivery trucks

Green Car Congress

The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) has partnered with the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) and Smith Electric Vehicles Corporation (Smith Electric) to reduce vehicle emissions from delivery trucks in the Houston-Galveston region.

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Kodiak Robotics intends to equip 800 vans with self-driving techniques in 2025

Baua Electric

Must their plans come to fruition, it’s believed the Loadsmith fleet will be the greatest self-driving trucking fleet in operation on crowd roads within the close time period. The use of the Kodiak Driving force, the corporate’s self-driving generation machine, Loadsmith’s fleets will haul items alongside highways.

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TERP awards Vision Industries and project partners $500K to support Texas’ first public hydrogen fueling station

Green Car Congress

Vision Industries Corporation, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Air Products and project partners were recently awarded $500,000 from the Texas Emission Reduction Program (TERP) partially to fund the building of the first public hydrogen fueling station in the state. It will support a fleet of 20 Hydrogen Class 8 trucks initially.

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Hydrogenics introduces Celerity fuel cell power system for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles

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Hydrogenics Corporation has introduced a new fuel cell system purposely developed for medium- and heavy-duty buses and trucks. The company is profiling the new system at the 2014 American Public Transit Association Expo in Houston, Texas. —Joe Cargnelli, CTO of Hydrogenics.

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UPS Deploys 200 More Hybrid Delivery Trucks

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UPS has expanded its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles with the deployment of 200 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks in eight US cities. Before this latest deployment, UPS was operating 50 hybrid electrics in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. Earlier post.). Long Island, Minneapolis and Louisville. Earlier post.).

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14 Major Cities Form C40 Electric Vehicle Network

Green Car Congress

Initial members of the C40 Electric Vehicle Network are : Bogota, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Delhi, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Seoul and Sydney. The four vehicle manufacturers are BYD, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), Nissan and Renault.

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Enterprise piloting program with Mansfield Oil for renewable synthetic diesel in airport shuttle buses; Dynamic Fuels product

Green Car Congress

Enterprise Holdings, owner and operator of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands, is piloting a program with Mansfield Oil Company to use renewable synthetic diesel fuel in its airport shuttle buses at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans and Houston Hobby Airport in Texas.

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