Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The Port of Seattle, along with Alaska Airlines, Western Washington Clean Cities and US Representative Adam Smith unveiled a new project providing nearly 600 electric charging stations throughout the airport for ground support equipment (GSE) such as baggage tugs, bag ramps and pushback vehicles. An additional $3.5

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Coltura is a Seattle-based nonprofit whose mission is to improve climate, health, and equity by accelerating the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. By The Co-Executive Directors of Coltura, Matthew Metz and Janelle London of Coltura. Coltura’s vision is of a gasoline-free America by 2040 or sooner.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2020

a Seattle-based start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor with an innovative approach to advancing cost-effective, flexible, and commercially scalable fusion. Driving electric current through the flow creates the magnetic field, which confines and compresses the plasma.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2023

King County Metro Transit in Seattle, Washington, will receive $33.5 million to buy approximately 30 battery-electric buses and charging equipment and train workers to maintain the electric fleet. The project will improve transit system conditions, create more reliable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

ChargePoint—the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network—released a list of the top 10 friendliest metropolitan areas in the US for EV drivers. The San Francisco Bay Area (including San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose) led the nation, followed by Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego and Honolulu. Seattle, WA.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

million in support of five new cost-shared, community-based projects focused on energy efficient mobility systems including connected and autonomous vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure including natural gas, propane, biofuels, hydrogen, and electricity. City of Seattle Department of Transportation will receive $1.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

A study based on a spatial and longitudinal travel dataset by a team from Lamar University, Iowa State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that whether plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) have lower energy costs that conventional gasoline vehicles (CGVs) or hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) depends on charger coverage. 2013.12.054.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2022

An Amazon delivery driver has posted their first impressions of Rivian’s Electric Delivery Van (EDV), showing many advantages over its ICE counterpart. The EDV offers many advantages over the previous gas-powered Ford Transit vans. The driver was excited about the apparent upgrades over the previous gas vans.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

The Kenworth T680 day cab’s fuel cell produces electricity to power the dual-rotor electric motor to move the truck, or it can recharge the lithium-ion batteries for use later. The T680 has been running trials in the Seattle area and performing very well. Kenworth’s hydrogen fuel-cell T680 is a reality.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

The intense heat of the second stage plasma gasifier rearranges the molecular structure of the waste, transforming organic (carbon-based) materials into synthesis gas (syngas). The syngas could also be used as a substitute for natural gas for heating or electricity generation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

King County, Washington, Executive Dow Constantine announced that King County Metro Transit will acquire 120 battery-electric buses by 2020. Metro serves Seattle and the rest of King County. Maintenance costs of all-electric buses are expected to decline versus hybrid-diesels, primarily because they have fewer moving parts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2023

While automakers continue to introduce new electric vehicles (EVs) and experience growth in market share, the beleaguered public vehicle charging infrastructure has not kept pace. Power 2023 US Electric Vehicle Experience (EVX) Public Charging Study. The CSAs in Seattle-Tacoma, Denver-Aurora and Dallas-Ft. The 2023 U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Developed by General Motors and built in partnership with the pioneering electric drag racing team Hancock and Lane Racing, the concept race car—based on the 2019 COPO Camaro —is driven by an electric motor providing the equivalent of more than 700 horsepower and 600 lb-ft (813 N·m) of torque. Electric crate motors.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2016

Seattle, Los Angeles, Florida, and Maine: the four corners of the continental U.S. Those points are where I intend to ride my 2014 Zero SR electric motorcycle this summer. The summer road trip is a great tradition, and every year, electric vehicles shape up to be more road-trip-worthy than before.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

However, the challenges of transmission, distribution, and high-pressure storage of a low-density gas have hampered the adoption of hydrogen PEMFC technology. The present work provides that unified analysis, finding that ammonia delivers the lowest source-to-tank cost among carbon-neutral fuels produced from renewable electricity.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

has been experiencing severe inflation and high gas prices. EV’s may be the answer Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly popular as gas prices continue to rise. A “Consumer Reports” study stated that EV owners spent approximately 60 percent less on fuel each year than gas vehicle owners. gal would be $12,785.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. Seattle-based. What no one disputes is the critical need for a carbon-free, always-available electricity source. advanced space propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

(TOTE) cargo ships will now plug into electrical power and shut down diesel engines while docked during weekly calls at their Tacoma terminal. million shore power project will reduce diesel and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% during TOTE’s 100 ship calls each year in Tacoma. That equals about 1.9

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Two flights will leave Seattle on 9 Nov. Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, will continue to operate select flights between Seattle and the two cities over the next few weeks using a 20% blend of renewable biofuel. for Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. Portland, Ore.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Widespread adoption of electric transportation, including electrification in the off-road sector, could lead to substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and could modestly improve air quality, according to a new analysis released by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Pike Research forecasts that annual sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will reach 358,959 vehicles by 2017, representing a compound anual growth rate (CAGR) of 43% between 2011 and 2017. Hawaii, which typically has among the highest gas prices in the nation, will be the top state, with PEVs representing 6.3% FPL Group (Florida).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

When power is abundant, it’s drawn from the electric grid and used to power a large air compressor, which pushes pressurized air into an underground geologic storage structure. Later, when power demand is high, the stored air is released back up to the surface, where it is heated and rushes through turbines to generate electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

Coca-Cola Enterprises has ordered 150 Kenworth T370 diesel-electric tractors and 35 Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks, all of which will be on the road this year. San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. The Kenworth T370 tractors (rated at 55,000 lb.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. Shipping uses over 300 million tonnes of fossil fuels every year, producing 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2015

The competing 16 North American university teams gathered in Seattle for several days of judged competition. Yatsko, OSU Engineering Manager. Each team will receive their 2016 Camaro this fall.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

EcoCAR 2 requires students to explore a variety of powertrain architectures focusing on electric drive vehicle technology. Participating universities will use electric powertrains, next generation control systems, and advanced battery technologies to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” Louis; Seattle; and Washington, DC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

The projects will test membrane technology to separate hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from coal or coal/biomass-derived synthesis gas (syngas), such as from Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power systems. and the Specialty Ceramics Center in Seattle, Wash. million, with an addition $1.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Its high carbon-capture rate reduces the total amount of CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere to less than 10% of the emissions for power from a conventional coal plant, and less than 25% of those for power from a highly efficient, natural gas-fired plant, according to Summit. —Donald Hodel, Chairman of Summit Power. produce urea.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker to announce the planned use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year. Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. —Ed Pleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Built by Seattle-based Foss Maritime, it began working the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in January 2009. quantify the effects of the diesel electric drive train versus batteries on the total emission. It also has 126 soft gel lead acid batteries for power storage that are separated into two arrays with 63 batteries each.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

The Vehicle Technologies Office Program Wide Selections will aim to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles through thirty-five projects addressing 11 areas of interest. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Federal funding.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

The Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects, which include ultra-clean energy plants that could co-produce electric power, fuels, chemicals and other high-value products from coal with near-zero emissions and substantial increases in efficiency. University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The Great Electric Plane Race. Unlike the national air races of the 1920s, however, the Pulitzer Electric Aircraft Race, scheduled for 19 May, will include only electric-propulsion aircraft. Cryogenic energy storage is a long-term method of storing electricity by cooling air until it liquefies (about –196 °C).

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