Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Electric aviation technology company magniX and Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline, announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 560 kW (751 shp) all-electric motor that delivers 2,814 N·m of torque.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

This project will support WMATA’s plans to accelerate its transition to a 100% zero-emission bus fleet and create good paying construction jobs, which will be supported through a project labor agreement and registered apprenticeships. King County Metro Transit in Seattle, Washington, will receive $33.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2016

Proterra, the market leader of zero-emission, battery-electric buses in North America, announced that SEPTA, Foothill Transit and King County Metro will use their Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Grants (Low-No) ( earlier post ) to purchase 33 Catalyst electric buses and charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Another three are on the West Coast and in Hawaii: Seattle (4), Portland (5), and Honolulu (6). Illinois provides a $4,000 state tax incentive for purchases and reduced registration fees. Texas is planning to offer a $2,500 state rebate for EV purchases. —Erik Gottfried, Nissan director of EV Sales and Marketing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2011

GE has already committed to purchase 25,000 EVs by 2015 for its own fleet and for fleet customers. Seattle, 15 March. GE is working with GM, Ford, Toyota, Navistar, Smith Electric Vehicles, Mitsubishi, Coda, Smart, THINK and other organizations on the tour. Scheduled Tour dates are: San Francisco, 10 March.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

The IEA analysis shows that fleet procurement is an important means of encouraging early EV uptake. The group is currently seeking to purchase more than 110,000 EVs, a significant number when compared to the 160,000 total EVs sold in the United States in 2016. London for its part encourages EV adoption by waiving its congestion charge.

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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. For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 5, 2022

Large fleets focused on electrification and carbon neutrality represent a win for the mission of both companies. Amazon’s scale is globally unprecedented, and we expect them to purchase vehicles from many providers- our own partnership with them is intact, thriving, and growing.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now. In von Herzen’s grand vision, satellite-based Internet could eventually be used to manage global fleets of kelp platforms from shore.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

regulation, purchasing incentives), local policy (e.g., There are substantial purchase incentives in California, Colorado, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Washington. The white paper identifies the areas with the highest shares of EVs and catalogues the actions that support EV uptake. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

As of July 2015, there were 39 roundtrip carsharing operators in North America with a total membership of 1,005,893 and a collective fleet of 18,582 vehicles. As of July 2015, there were three one-way operators in North America, serving 511,000 members with a collective fleet of 6,870 vehicles, according to a study to be published.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

It builds white-label websites and tools for Auto OEMs, utilities, fleets, and other greentech stakeholders to promote their thought leadership in the electrification of consumer and fleet vehicles. Let's build a scenario Let's say you want to purchase a 2023 Chevy Bolt in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. Total DOE award: $15,000,000. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Expanding the EV fleet. The Office of Federal Sustainability is inviting State, county and municipal government fleets to join forces with Federal agencies to maximize their collective buying power, and aggregate their EV and charging infrastructure purchases. Municipal fleet electrification. City of Seattle.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced that the City of Seattle and Nissan North America will work together to promote the development of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. Nissan has selected the Seattle-area as one of the first regions in the country to introduce a pure electric five-passenger hatchback in 2010.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 18, 2006

AFS TRINITY SIGNS ACCORD WITH AUSTIN ENERGY The Auto Channel August 17, 2006 " A n accord that was signed this week in Seattle and Austin should put Americans one step closer to seeing the 250 MPG AFS Trinity Power Corp (AFST) Extreme Hybrid ™ car on the road," according to AFS Trinity CEO Edward W.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Even though not all renewables are created equal, power purchase agreements (PPAs) for PV projects with utilities in the US Southwest are now coming in under seven cents per kWh for a twenty year period. Hydropower in Seattle will push you around for the same price.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 24, 2006

T hrough the leadership of Mayor Richard Daley , the City of Chicago has joined Plug In Partners with a big bang by committing to purchase 850 plug in hybrid vehicles. T he plug in partner campaign has recently received fleet orders from other cities and states. Recently, Chicago's greening was highlighted in Time. Minnesota Dept.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

In 2020, King County announced an agreement with New Flyer to purchase next-generation, battery-electric coaches. Metro is currently on track to have a fully battery-electric fleet by 2035. The facility will also be able to charge electric vehicles already in use by Metro and King County. per month on average in operating expenses.

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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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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Austin’s template calls for cities to initiate citizen petition drives and to encourage government and businesses to issue “soft” orders or expressions of interest in purchasing plug-ins. consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today. Last year, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

King County Metro, the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle, will soon begin testing long-range battery-powered buses that can travel more than 140 miles on a single charge, the latest milestone toward a zero-emission fleet. —Metro General Manager Rob Gannon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Heavy-duty hydrogen projects, such as freight fleet or shuttle programs, in this or future plans. miles per kWh) for the expected future fleet of new EVs, including current EV units in operation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

400 million in grants to purchase thousands of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles for test demonstrations in several dozen locations; to deploy them and evaluate their performance; to install electric charging infrastructure; and to provide education and workforce training to support the transition to advanced electric transportation systems.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Sure, 2x more people live within Seattle city limits than in all of Iceland’s huge expanses. I finally got hold of reported total bus fleets and bus replacement rates in Europe. For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k E-buses were deployed.

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