Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Attaining environmental benefits and lower cost of ownership are driving more commercial fleets to electrify, according to a new study by UPS and GreenBiz. The top motivation to go electric for 83% of large businesses surveyed is sustainability and environmental goals.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. The violations were discovered during routine audits of the company’s 2017 and 2018 vessel fleet visits to the Port of Oakland.

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Electrek

JUNE 13, 2023

An electric truck charging depot that can charge up to 96 trucks at once will service fleets moving cargo to and from the Port of Oakland. more… The post This EV charging depot can charge up to 96 electric semi-trucks at once appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2011

Singapore-based container shipping line APL became the first to cold-iron a vessel’s engines to eliminate exhaust emissions at the Port of Oakland, California. In cold-ironing, ships at berth connect via large cables to the landside power grid for electricity. Emissions of particulate matter should drop by 1,500 pounds a year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Through the project, also known as Zero-Emission Regional Truck Operations with Fuel Cell Electric Truck, Hyundai Motor will deploy 30 Class 8 6x4 XCIENT Fuel Cell heavy-duty tractors at the Port of Oakland, Calif., At the 2022 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, Hyundai Motor will share the progress of the NorCAL ZERO Project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

The public agencies receiving vehicles are: Alameda County, Sonoma County, San Francisco, Concord, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Oakland, Fremont, the Marin Municipal Water District, and Sonoma County Water Agency. The County will receive 26 of the 90 vehicles—raising the number of electric or hybrid vehicles in its fleet to more than 50.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Lane Transit District (LTD) in Oregon has awarded New Flyer a contract for 11 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, including seven ABB depot chargers to support electric bus infrastructure development. More than half use electric hybrid propulsion, helping to lower emissions from public transit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

This initiative will have a specific focus on charging station investments for electric transit buses and medium- / heavy-duty trucks located in or serving the community. Approximately 90% of Californians now live within 15 miles of an Electrify America ultra-fast charger, with 96% living within 25 miles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2021

Hyundai Motor Company will deploy the company’s latest hydrogen fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks in California in two publicly funded projects to improve the air quality in the region. Glovis America, a logistics service provider, will be the fleet operator of these trucks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

has received California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Order (EO) #D-731-1 allowing aftermarket conversions of gasoline-powered 2012-2014 model year General Motors 2500 and 3500 vans, Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans into hybrid electric vehicles. ERG has facilities in Sacramento, Oakland, Redding and Ontario.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck. Several next-generation battery-electric trucks, with increased driving range, are coming to the US this year, following their European debuts. However, the picture for 2024 looks brighter.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million to seven projects to develop medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans across 23 states. The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

Ian Robertson announced the upcoming launch of ParkNow, a mobile parking solution that is a joint venture with Urban Mobility; and also provided new details about DriveNow, a new premium car-sharing service which features a fleet of BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicles. San Francisco serves as the initial US market for each service.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

California buyers of the Ford Focus Electric will be able to receive up to $10,000 in tax credits ($2,500 state, $7,500 federal) and enjoy high-occupancy vehicle lane (HOV) access after the car was just approved for California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program ( CVRP ). 3 and 7, respectively, for the worst congestion in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

Four San Francisco Bay Area local government fleets—San Jose, Los Gatos, Campbell and Mill Valley—are deploying a total of 50 Mitsubishi i-MiEV EVs, representing the largest municipal fleet deployment of light-duty all-electric vehicles (EVs) in the US to date.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Since Amazon and Rivian announced a partnership for sustainable e-commerce and 100,000 all-electric delivery vans in 2019, the conglomeration has flourished into a successful and groundbreaking package delivery program. cities and regions receiving deliveries with Amazon’s custom electric delivery vehicles. cities this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Linde has contracted with Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) in California to supply the ionic compression hydrogen fueling technology ( earlier post ) and the hydrogen for two new refueling stations, which will be located at AC Transit's Emeryville and Oakland operating divisions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The plan also includes investments for charging stations to support ZEV bus fleets and ride hail services, as well as residential and autonomous vehicle charging. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. In finding that Electrify America’s Cycle 2 California ZEV Investment Plan meets or exceeds all requirements of the 2.0L San Diego-Carlsbad.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) approved four regional planning grants to prepare for electric vehicles. These areas of the state are expected to experience heavy electric vehicle use within the next ten years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

company, announced that one of its latest generation PureMotion Model 120 fuel cell powerplants for hybrid-electric transit buses has surpassed 5,000 operating hours in real-world service with its original cell stacks and no cell replacements. UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. Stack durability matters.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Orange EV and Impact Transportation announced the deployment of an Orange EV T-Series battery-electric terminal truck to Impact’s 250,000 square foot warehouse and special project site supporting Port of Oakland operations. Impact’s Orange EV truck is DOT compliant and built with an 80 kWh battery pack and standard charging.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Four next-generation fuel cell-powered hybrid-electric transit buses were introduced in Hartford, Connecticut, joining an earlier generation bus that began service in 2007. Only the Greater Oakland/San Francisco, Calif., area will have a larger fuel cell bus fleet in the United States, also equipped with UTC Power fuel cell systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of more than $15 million to projects that will advance biofuels and electric vehicle research in California. will receive $2,325,954 to demonstrate battery-electric medium-duty trucks. Earlier post.) Electricore Inc. Electricore Inc., Villa Ford Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Solena Fuels’ reference BTL design processes approximately 500,000 tonnes of feedstock into 16 million gallons of sustainable fuel, nine million gallons of bio-naptha and 20MW net of exportable electricity. Earlier post.). These offtakes are in addition to the facility producing all of its own energy to operate the facility.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

As such, local governments and fleet operators have limited hardware options to address unique mobility concerns related to accidents, injuries, and theft. GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. The campus-wide study will evaluate the effectiveness of GEKOT’s solutions.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

Then the suits in Dearborn decided to kill the Sable after 2005, with the Taurus itself following after 2007 (with all new 2007-2007 Tauruses sold only to fleet buyers beginning with the first day of 2006). Sale numbers for those Sables were pretty good until into the 1990s, with better than 100,000 units sold in most years through 1995.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

an order for 20 zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell-electric 40-foot Xcelsior CHARGE H2 heavy-duty transit buses. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Innovative Clean Transit Regulation requires all California agencies to transition to zero-emission bus fleets by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

A white paper by AMPLY Power, a company providing fleet charging as a service, finds that 25 of America’s largest metropolitan areas could save an average of 37% on fuel costs by electrifying their bus and light-duty vehicle fleets. AMPLY developed an interactive map to compare gas and electric fleet fueling costs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. The largest PV installation in Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

The pilot is being offered to select Ford Credit customers in California—including Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco; as well as in Portland, Oregon; Chicago and Washington, D.C. The service offers customers flexible, practical and affordable access to a fleet of cars for one-way journeys with easy parking throughout London.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The DriveNow fleet currently consists of 70 fully-electric ActiveE vehicles located at ten DriveNow stations around the San Francisco Bay Area, including hubs serving the Silicon Valley, SFO and Oakland International Airports. DriveNow is a premium car sharing service launched by BMW is San Francisco last summer.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A detailed, city-level multivariate regression analysis of EV penetration in California has found a link between electric vehicle uptake and many underlying factors. In these 30 cities, electric vehicles account for 6% to 18% share of new vehicle sales—this is 8 to 25 times that of the US average in 2015. Source: Searle et al.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. I like Beam much better—a beam of energy, the structural beam. What are they using the EV ARC for?

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Baua Electric

APRIL 27, 2024

FirstElement Fuels has opened the world’s first large-scale hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty commercial trucks just outside the Port of Oakland. Primary funding for the Oakland station was provided by CARB and the California Energy Commission. Electricity that it says will come from the stored hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The projects will advance the manufacture of electric vehicles and vehicle batteries; add vehicle charging stations; and encourage the use of biofuels. The eight projects are: Electric Vehicle manufacturing. $1 Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

More information about Electrify America’s planning partnership with state agencies that will include environmental justice representatives, electric utilities, and local agencies for the purpose of coordinating the process of siting and installing EV charger stations. Specifics on key decisions and planning processes.

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