Green Car Congress
JUNE 3, 2013
The Polk County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office is running 10 patrol cars converted to propane autogas, including seven Ford Crown Vics, two Chevy Tahoes and one Ford F-350 pickup truck; the office expects to save more than $20,000 every year by using the alternative fuel. —Sergeant Mark Garton, Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2009
The buses meet the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Altoona testing protocols for 7 years/200,000 miles service life and are American with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant. The vehicles have a passenger capacity of 14 riders, including 2 wheelchair positions.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. Tahoe Transportation District. Tahoe Transportation District (TTD) will receive funding to expand their electric bus fleet. Oregon Department of Transportation.
EV Match
OCTOBER 31, 2020
In my continuing quest to show that electric cars can ferry adventurous families just as well as gas-guzzling minivans and Tahoes, I can now say from experience that this holds true during the “new normal” of the pandemic. As a broad outline, we traveled from Sunnyvale, CA to Seaside, OR, which is roughly 750 miles each way.
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