Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The Smart Fortwo electric vehicle will soon be part of one of the biggest rental fleets in the world after an agreement was reached between Smart USA and the Hertz Corporation.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Indianapolis is to become the US’ first city to convert its entire municipal non-police fleet to electric and plug-in hybrids by 2025. On Wednesday, city mayor, Greg Ballard made history as he signed an executive order to make the switch to plug-in power within the next thirteen years. The mid-west city of Indianapolis is an [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Last week we asked whether it was time to give up on hybrid cars (see article) but now Pike Research is suggesting that demand for the vehicles will surge. Its research suggests that the global market for hybrid electric light duty vehicles in the fleet sector will increase at an annual growth rate of 17.5 [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2012

The Green Piece Column. With the news that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to spend $20million on projects aimed at reducing pollution from diesel fleets (see story), the question of whether the US could benefit from further use of clean diesels is once again raised. Tuesday 1 May, 2012. While diesel is often [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

It may be an aggressive prediction – but a report by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute is suggesting that 90 per cent of vehicle fleets in the USA, China, Western Europe, Brazil and Japan could be running on alternative powertrain/fuels by 2050.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The US army has become the first army in the world to use a military fleet of fuel cell vehicles after taking delivery of 16 hydrogen-powered models from General Motors. The new fleet will be split across each branch of the military to test the vehicles in real-world driving situations. As part of an evaluation [.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. braunii - Green Car Congress 07 April 2016. [

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2009

about police forces across the USA adopting various green cars. So another day, another story - except this time, the police force in question isn’t simply replacing its fleet with hybrid or natural gas cars. We’ve featured a number of news stories here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Green Cars News

JUNE 8, 2009

One of the highlights of yesterday’s Green Car Day at City Hall in Central London was the appearance of the Nissan X-Trail Fuel Cell Vehicle. The car is part of Nissan’s fleet participating in the California Fuel Cell Partnership trials in the USA and has featured in a wide variety of low carbon events throughout Europe.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

The outfit aims to manufacture vehicles in the USA and employ as many as 2,600 workers there by 2014. It has set its sights on marketing its small c-Zone utility vehicle for commercial and government fleets by the fourth quarter with prices ranging from $8,000-$16,000.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The Ford Transit Connect Electric has been making its mark on corporate fleets in the USA since December 2010 – and now a passenger wagon version of the vehicle is set to be introduced. Ford has teamed up with Azure Dynamics Corporation to create the Transit Connect Electric wagon, which places the Azure Force Drive [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2009

Electric Avenue will soon arrive in Music City USA as the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County became the first municipality in the State of Tennessee to install and deploy Coulomb ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations.

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Green Cars News

MAY 26, 2009

Place this one firmly in the ‘rumour mill’ for now, but reports are suggesting that Honda may soon add two hybrid sports cars to its fleet. After the introduction of the second generation Insight, the Japanese car manufacturer has committed itself to the further development of hybrid drive vehicles.

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Green Cars News

MAY 24, 2009

Well thanks to Federal incentives in the USA, one small security company in Pacoima has managed just that. Golden West K-9 received the keys to three natural gas powered Honda Civic GX patrol cars for $26,000 each - but each came with a $4,000 Federal funded rebate.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2009

The new company will focus on four core brands in the USA - Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC and will feature fewer nameplates. GM also wants to improve the fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet and will launch the Chevrolet Volt extended range vehicle in 2010.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 18, 2009

Efforts to boost fuel cell manufacturing in the USA have been turned up a notch after the US Department of Energy awarded $41.9million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to 13 projects aimed at accelerating the commercialisation and deployment of fuel cells. Jadoo Power in Folsom, CA. Anheuser-Busch in St Louis, MO.

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2009

Coca-Cola, Staples, Frito-Lay, AT&T, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) are the first Newton customers in the USA. The trucks, conceived by Smith Electric Vehicles in North East England, were handed over at an official ceremony at the seat of power in the USA, Capitol Hill.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 22, 2012

Electric vehicles are in high demand in the city of Houston, Texas – and now Zipcar is responding to this surge in popularity by launching a municipal electric vehicle car sharing programme. The car sharing programme will involve 25 Nissan LEAF electric vehicles (pictured), featuring Zipcar’s proprietary fleet sharing technology.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 24, 2012

Silicon Valley electric car retrofit company Wrightspeed has received a massive cash boost from the California Energy Commission (CEC) – to the sum of $5.789million. Part of the CEC’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programme, the cash is meant to boost Wrightspeed’s push into the medium-duty commercial fleet market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Hyundai began production of the ix35 Fuel Cell (the Tucson’s counterpart in Europe) at the company’s Ulsan manufacturing plant in Korea in January 2013; the first complete car rolled off the assembly line on 26 February 2013. This also is why Honda is an enthusiastic participant in a federal program, H 2 USA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

All we really need in addition to fleets of new paradigm vehicles are additional solar and wind generation sources. In fact, (in our humble opinion) all new vehicles should be PHEVs, and each PHEV or fleet of PHEVs needs to be sold with a comparable number of solar or wind generators. These PHEV Volts have a 35 mile (56 km) AER.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 16, 2009

Nissan has also committed to making a supply of electric vehicles available to the region’s public and private fleets in 2010 and will introduce zero-emission vehicles across the USA in the same year before mass marketing them across the globe by 2012.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

In addition DHL adds to its electric delivery van fleet in the US, Jeep announces plans for a Level 2 charging network and solid article was published about the current poor experience facing EV drivers at the various EV charging networks. – March 30, via Green Car Reports. – March 30, via CleanTechnica.

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APRIL 21, 2009

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