Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2019

Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) has built the first two Class 8 battery electric Freightliner eCascadias for customers at its research and development center in Portland. The initial customer shipments are the first heavy-duty additions to the 30-vehicle Freightliner Innovation Fleet.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2018

New Flyer bid successfully against two competitors, confirming its position as now serving all 25 of the largest transit agencies in North America. It is the second-most heavily used urban mass transit system in Canada and the third-most heavily used rapid transit system in North America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In the United States, the heavy-duty eCascadia and the medium-duty eM2 were premiered in Portland in June 2018. The test fleet comprises 38 vehicles in a variety of applications including regional and local distribution, food distribution and parcel delivery. Freightliner eCascadia and the eM2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) introduced the first SAE Level 2 automated truck in series production in North America with the latest enhancements to the Freightliner new Cascadia. Detroit Connect Analytics will provide fleets with analysis and key insights on the performance of the new Detroit Assurance 5.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

At the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), Mitsubishi Motors North America President and CEO Shinichi Kurihara confirmed that the company is developing the i MiEV for sale in world markets, including the United States. Fleet sales of the electric vehicle begin this July in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2017

Seattle is the first city in North America to make the award-winning Light & Charge system, which turns existing streetlights into EV charging stations, available to the public. The addition of Light & Charge stations in Seattle will also allow ReachNow to expand its shared fleet of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

The district currently operates the largest CNG bus fleet in California, with more than 300 natural gas buses. Last month, Daimler Trucks North America delivered four medium-duty Freightliner Business Class M2 106 Hybrid trucks to the city of Denver.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2012

RelayRides’ model is based on neighbors renting out their cars to fellow neighbors, instead of one that requires ownership and maintenance of a car fleet. Peer-to-peer car sharing service RelayRides is expanding and is now available to car owners and renters nationwide. RelayRides will use a key-exchange program—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2019

This service is now available at more than 5,000 intersections in the US, for example in cities including Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Portland and Washington D.C. Since February Audi has offered a further function in North America. The purpose of this is especially to enable driving on the “green wave”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

has announced an agreement with Clean Energy calling for up to 500,000 gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel for their fleet of 40 LNG trucks based out of their Clackamas, Oregon distribution center. The station will support Raven Transportation’s fleet of LNG trucks at an estimated 11,000 GGEs per month.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

GCW) are the largest hybrid delivery truck on the road in North America. Knoxville, Las Vegas, Missoula, New Orleans, and Seattle, joining CCE’s fleet of 120 Kenworth 12-bay hybrid delivery trucks. Coca-Cola Enterprises operates the largest hybrid truck fleet in North America.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. The company abandoned North America and now operates only in Europe under the Share Now brand. It is now owned by Stellantis.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. Soon they won’t have a choice.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The startup Artly uses AI in its barista bots, Jarvis and Amanda, which serve coffee at several locations across North America (it makes a solid cappuccino—even by the scrupulous standards of Portland, Oregon’s coffee culture).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

DTNA unveiled its SuperTruck at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in the Freightliner Trucks booth. To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; —Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

Photo: Daimler Trucks North America Daimler Truck North America has delivered its first battery-electric Freightliner eM2 trucks to a New York-based trucking company. The Freightliner eM2, made at Daimler Truck North America’s factory in Portland, Oregon, is being distributed to customers across the US.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Electric Island project, a collaboration between Daimler Trucks North America and Portland General Electric, will be a test bed for all kinds of heavy-duty EV charging solutions. Portland General Electric (PGE) is Oregon’s largest electric utility, serving approximately 900,000 customers in 51 cities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

The planned change of name highlights the business unit’s transformation to a broad-based mobility service provider, the range extending from financing and leasing through fleet management and insurance to digital solutions for payment processing (Mercedes pay) and app-based services such as moovel, car2go and mytaxi.

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