Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The Washington State House Transportation Committee voted 17-12 to advance legislation calling for all model year 2030 or later passenger and light-duty vehicles sold in the state to be electric vehicles (EVs). Nicole Macri (D-Seattle) with assistance from Coltura, a Seattle-based nonprofit.
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.
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.
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.;
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.
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).
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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