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Hyundai XCIENT fuel cell fleet in Switzerland logged 5M km in 2 years

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Hyundai Motor Company announced that its fleet of XCIENT Fuel Cell heavy-duty trucks in Switzerland has accumulated more than 5 million km in two years. The system’s durability and the vehicle’s overall fuel efficiency are tailored to the demands of commercial fleet customers.

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Hyundai Motor puts XCIENT Fuel Cell electric trucks into commercial fleet operation in California with $3.5M from EPA

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million in 2021 Targeted Airshed Grant (TAG) funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deploy five XCIENT Fuel Cell electric trucks in California. EPA’s TAG program aims to reduce air pollution in areas of the nation with the highest levels of ambient ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution.

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Hyundai bringing XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks to California

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Debuting last year in Switzerland, XCIENT Fuel Cell has proven its commercial viability through more than one million kilometers of driving in real-world conditions. Glovis America, a logistics service provider, will be the fleet operator of these trucks. 12-month pilot program with fleet partner to operate two XCIENT Fuel Cell.

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Study Finds That CO2 Emissions in Europe from Mobile AC May Be An Average Six Times Higher Than Predicted by the EPA MOBILE6 Model

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applied to the average meteorological year of a central European region and compared with the US EPA MOBILE6 model, the EEMAC model found estimated average annual CO 2 output six times higher than that of MOBILE6. This is twice the amount of fuel than is saved annually by renewing the fleet. —Weilenmann et al.

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ICCT study finds increasing gap between rated and actual passenger car fuel consumption in Europe

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United Kingdom); and TCS (Switzerland). The authors used official fuel economy and CO 2 ratings from the fueleconomy.gov website published by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They also used laboratory test data from ADAC Ecotest (Germany) and QueChoisir (France). United States.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost? If you totally decarbonize in Switzerland or in Canada (37 million people) and China keeps blowing ahead, it makes no difference. Globally, we have now 1.4

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost? If you totally decarbonize in Switzerland or in Canada (37 million people) and China keeps blowing ahead, it makes no difference. Globally, we have now 1.4