Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

A Foss Maritime Company’ Green Assist hybrid tug ( earlier post ) has joined the Foss fleet for the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California. To help defray the added costs of development and construction of the first hybrid tug, both the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles contributed funding. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

A plug-in parallel hybrid electric terminal tractor used to move shipping containers and cargo within the port will be tested at a Port of Long Beach shipping terminal. The equipment will be tested at SSA Container Terminal on Pier A at the Port of Long Beach for 3 months. Andra Rogers. Mobile, Ala.,

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JANUARY 11, 2018

The Seattle-based company received a notice of violation for failing to repower, retire or retrofit its cargo-handling equipment at the ports of Long Beach and Oakland, and for failing to certify large spark ignition engines on yard trucks servicing those terminals, as required by state law. SSA Containers, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum-based marine fuels (low-sulfur and high-sulfur). This is an important consideration.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. The fleet also failed to reduce the auxiliary engine power generation by the required 50%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The hybrid tug used in the study, the Carolyn Dorothy ( earlier post ), is powered by two 1,342 kW Cummins QSK50-M main engines and 317 kW Cummins QSM11-M auxiliary generators. All engines meet United Stated Environmental Protection Agency’s Tier 2 certification. Further engine histograms. Each array stores 170.1 reductions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The project will also replace one diesel sweeper at the Port of Los Angeles with two cleaner Tier 4 engines. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

Since it first began operation in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” truck has logged nearly 10,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles while emitting nothing but water vapor. —Andrew Lund, chief engineer for the project.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Harris announced a settlement with cargo terminals at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles over diesel emissions from exhaust that requires the terminals to complete projects to reduce their diesel emissions and better notify the public of emissions. California Attorney General Kamala D. Eagle Marine Services, Ltd.; Trapac, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2020

Funding is available to replace existing diesel-powered transit buses with model year 2009 and older engines, which must be permanently removed from service and scrapped. As part of the state’s $127.7-million million allocation of the federal Volkswagen Settlement, NYSERDA will administer approximately $18.4 commercial trucks and buses).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The multi-phase project, Research Hub for Electric Technologies in Truck Applications (RHETTA) ( GFO-20-306 ), will commence with a community-first engagement framework to ensure that pollution-impacted communities, low-income communities, and tribal communities are involved in creating and guiding the initiative. Momentum; ORBCOMM, Inc.;

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MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. Several other ARFVTP-funded projects were also approved.

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JULY 21, 2017

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released the draft of their proposed 2017 C lean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update. Grouped under four categories, the 2017 CAAP’s near-term and long-term strategies include: Clean Vehicles, Equipment Technology and Fuels. Reduce GHGs from port‐related sources to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Engine room of a Foss hybrid tug. Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of Long Beach. Click to enlarge.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2009

It’s been a long time coming, but we have finally achieved the first “cold ironing&# of a tanker in the Port of Long Beach. Normally, these engines crank out massive amounts of pollution, equal to “a day’s worth of driving by 187,000 cars,&# according to estimates by the Port of Long Beach.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Shipping company Maersk Line and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are partnering to measure the environmental benefits of a $125-million upgrade for 12 Maersk container ships. This advances our ability to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants on a global scale.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

WattEV opened a charging depot at the Port of Long Beach last May, and at least a dozen more charging sites are in the construction phase—but it’s true that many more will be needed.) The latest DOE data indicates that at the moment, there are only 9 public DC fast charging stations capable of serving Class 6-8 trucks in the US.

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JULY 1, 2009

As the next steps in a strategy to cut harmful emissions from ocean-going vessels, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new engine emissions and fuel standards for large marine diesel engines on US-flagged ships that would harmonize with international standards. EPA’s proposed rulemaking affects the Category 3 engines.

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APRIL 20, 2010

This solicitation is issued under the Assembly Bill 118 (AB 118) Air Quality Improvement Program’s (AQIP), Advanced Technology Demonstration Project and is intended to fund technologies on the cusp of commercialization with the potential for significant reductions in criteria and toxic air pollutants. The study found that more than 1.5

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

Hummer cars are known to have previously achieved as little as 12mpg, but thanks to Raser Technologies; who are currently exhibiting the new Hummer at the Plug-In Conference 2009, until Wednesday, 12 August at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California; the reputation of the Hummer could be on the mend.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The cost equation is trickier. Today, battery-electric Class 8 tractors still have a higher lifetime cost, due entirely to the initial purchase price of a heavy-duty vehicle with a huge battery (264 kWh for the first-generation VNR Electric). Funding of $90 million for the project came from the California Climate Investments, which contributed $44.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Conventional diesel-engined Capacity TJ9000. Heavy duty vehicles have a disproportionate impact in terms of air pollution, with buses and trucks accounting for less than 10% of vehicles on the road but about one-quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions plus a significant amount of pollutants in California.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Right now the dock workers and the people who live near the ports are choking on the worst air pollution anywhere in the area. He is none other than Paul Carosa, AC’s VP of Engineering, part owner, and one of the company principals.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

When engineers specify components that aren’t automotive-rated, they are then forced to spend time in extensive testing to make sure their vehicles don’t catch fire. There’s a new greenhouse gas requirement on large vehicles for 2027 engines, and California’s adopting that next year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Auxiliary power to docked ships, usually provided by on-board diesel engines, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, accounting for one-third to one-half of the in-port emissions attributed to ocean-going vessels. —Pratt and Harris (2013). Los Angeles, Calif.; Oakland, Calif.; Portland, Ore.;

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

And the brilliance of Elon Musk and the brainiacs he’s put together on his Tesla team is that they’re savvy enough to have made the Roadster a sexy, California, hardbody piece of eye candy in addition to making it 400% more efficient than any internal combustion engine vehicle ever.

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