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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

On Friday, the fleet of Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell electric vehicles involved in GM’s Project Driveway—the largest consumer fuel cell vehicle demonstration project to date ( earlier post )—passed the 1-million mile mark. Tags: Fuel Cells Heavy-duty. The Equinox fuel cell vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Since 2007, Coulomb has been introducing networked charging stations for EVs since 2007. Cities worldwide including San Francisco, Houston, Amsterdam, Chicago, Nashville and Bochum, Germany, now have Coulomb’s charging stations installed for consumer and fleet use. Tags: Brief. also participated in the round.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Changes in the attributes (clockwise from upper left, weight, power, fuel economy and torque) of the Honda Accord over time as an example of fleet trends in the US. In contrast, the standards recently announced by the Obama Administration, while attainable, require downsizing and a shift in the fleet mix away from SUVs. Knittel, 2009.

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MARCH 18, 2010

The system is half the size, 220 pounds lighter and uses about a third of the platinum of the system in the Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell electric vehicles used in Project Driveway, the world’s largest market test and demonstration fleet of fuel cell electric vehicles that began in late 2007 and has amassed nearly 1.3

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Many of our readers, and most of the staff around here, have numerous old-school hoopties in their fleet – hoopties which can benefit from an injection of modern communication technology. . & Looking critically at that headline, it’s probably the most hyphenated string of words used to date in this series.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Most of the vehicles funded were beverage and package delivery trucks, with almost all funding going to private fleets. The Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Program provides $20,000 to $35,000 as vouchers to help California fleets offset the purchase price of advanced-technology hybrid trucks and buses. Tags: Brief.

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OCTOBER 30, 2010

Earlier in October, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a waiver for fuel containing up to 15% ethanol (E15) for model year 2007 and newer cars and light trucks. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.) —PMAA/RFA joint memorandum.

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MAY 1, 2009

The addition of these newly designed hybrid buses brings Long Beach Transit’s 40-foot hybrid fleet total to 87 buses, for a nearly 50% hybrid 40-foot fleet. The New Flyer of America buses use the ISE Corporation ThunderVolt hybrid drive system, as do the earlier 62 hybrids in the LBT fleet. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Four next-generation fuel cell-powered hybrid-electric transit buses were introduced in Hartford, Connecticut, joining an earlier generation bus that began service in 2007. area will have a larger fuel cell bus fleet in the United States, also equipped with UTC Power fuel cell systems. Tags: Brief.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

This initiative, part of NAVSEA’s Fleet Readiness Research & Development Program (FRR&DP), supports the secretary of the Navy’s efforts to reduce total energy consumption on naval ships. —Doyle Kitchin, NAVSEA Fleet Readiness Engineering Office director. Energy and the affordable future fleet ; Norbert H.

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JULY 24, 2009

The California Air Resources Board adopted amendments to help business owners comply with its 2007 regulation aimed at reducing toxic diesel emissions from the state’s estimated 180,000 off-road vehicles such as tractors and bulldozers used in construction, mining and other industries. Requirements and deadlines vary depending on fleet size.

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MAY 19, 2009

The CAFE program established by the EISA 2007 legislation specified a minimum 35 mpg in 2020. EPA is proposing GHG emissions standards under the Clean Air Act (CAA), and NHTSA is proposing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards under EPCA, as amended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA).

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The Toyota Auris hit the European market place in spring 2007. In early 2010, a field trial in Europe will see more than 150 units being leased to selected fleet customers. Tags: Brief. Production of Toyota’s first European-built full hybrid will kick-off at Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd (TMUK) in mid-2010.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In January 2007, Volvo Cars and energy supplier Vattenfall launched a joint project with the aim of testing and developing plug-in technology. Volvo’s BEV, the C30 DRIVe Electric ( earlier post ), will go into production in early 2011 and run in test fleets in Europe, China and the US. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 7, 2010

Although most maritime freight carriers have slashed operating costs by cutting staff and reducing ship speeds, as much as 12% of the world’s freight shipping fleet is now estimated to lay idle, in part because many carriers invested heavily in new ships during the strong economic growth of the last decade. Tags: Brief.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

lower than before the crisis in 2007. Following a marked decline in the second half of 2008 and first half of 2009, European new car registrations picked up in the second half of last year, reflecting the cautious upturn in the overall European economy as well as the impact of fleet renewal schemes implemented in 13 EU Member States.

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JUNE 16, 2010

This first helicopter flight using sustainable aviation biofuels to date was conducted at Gilze-Rijen Airbase, the home of the Royal Netherlands' combat helicopter fleet. Tags: Brief. Natural oils from algae and used cooking oil were converted into Green Jet Fuel using process technology developed by UOP. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

In 2007, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted pioneering NO x and PM regulations aimed at reducing toxic and cancer-causing diesel emissions from the state’s estimated 180,000 off-road vehicles used in construction, mining, airport ground support and other industries. Tags: Brief.

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JUNE 11, 2009

A limited amount of 2010 Malibu hybrids may be produced to fulfill fleet sales requests. Hitachi Automotive Products produced the integrated starter-generators and the power electronics for GM’s 2007-2009 mild hybrids. Tags: Brief. 2008 Malibu hybrid. Click to enlarge. Jack Rosebro.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Reuters reports that Chrysler has disbanded its ENVI team, formed in 2007 to bring electric-drive vehicles and related advanced-propulsion technologies to market. In August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the US Department of Energy to develop a test fleet of 220 hybrid pickup trucks and minivans. Tags: Brief.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

NRC projections of number of PHEVs in the US light-duty fleet. Penetration rates for the PHEV-10 and the PHEV-40 were compared to a Reference Case that assumes high oil prices and fuel economy standards specified by EISA 2007 (with modest increases after 2020, when those standards level off), as described in the 2008 Hydrogen Report from NRC.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

The two organizations will work together to identify areas of cooperation for promoting the use of electric vehicles, as part of PASENER 2007-2013 (the Andalusian Sustainable Energy Plan) and the Renault-Nissan alliance’s zero emissions strategy. Tags: Brief. In 2009 it produced a total of 755,370 units, of which 70% was exported.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The companies have also been conducing road trials, such as the limited-term fleet trial held in December 2007 using FTD-powered carrier vehicles in and around Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture and between TMC’s headquarters in Toyota City and TMC’s Higashi-Fuji Technical Center in Shizuoka Prefecture. Earlier post.)

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MAY 14, 2009

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) will lease more than 150 units of its experimental Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) to selected fleet customers across Europe as a next step towards commercialization. In partnership with EDF, Toyota has been road-testing a PHV (equipped with a Nickel Metal Hydride battery) in Europe since 2007. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

Funded by the DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), NREL’s Fleet Test & Evaluation (FT&E) team performed a 12-month evaluation of six MY 2007 P70D hybrid vans and six MY 2006 P70D standard diesel vans at a UPS location in Phoenix, collecting and analyzing fuel economy, maintenance and other vehicle performance data.

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JULY 22, 2009

From October 2007 to April 2009, the average fuel economy of purchased new light-duty vehicles improved from 20.2 L/100km) in October 2007 to 21.3 Thus, with relatively low gasoline prices and high unemployment, the fuel economy of the new-vehicle fleet improved by an increase in the proportion of purchases of inexpensive vehicles.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Kalghatgi and his group explored both the use of low-cetane fuels and exhaust gas recirculation (SAE 2007-01-0006). SAE 2007-01-0191). Liechty (2007) Effects of Fuel Property Changes on Heavy-Duty HCCI Combustion (SAE 2007-01-0191). Tags: Engines. Other researchers have looked at high EGR rates (Akihama et al.

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JANUARY 1, 2010

ARB passed the port truck rule in December 2007, which requires truck owners operating in and out of ports and intermodal rail yards to retrofit and replace their trucks over the next several years. Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The report, which covers the period between 1999 and 2007, applies the Sustainable Value approach developed by Prof. In 2007, Daimler AG (replacing DaimlerChrysler in the analysis as of 2007) manages to close the gap to BMW Group and Toyota considerably. billion from 1999 to 2007. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87

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JULY 28, 2009

Think and Ener1 are working with Zero Sports of Japan, which has been selected by Japan Post as one of the conversion partners for delivering electric vehicles as part of the testing program in support of its goal to electrify the fleet of 22,000 delivery vehicles. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Fleets Japan.

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JUNE 30, 2009

estimates that for the years AT&T’s fleet purchase program is operating, more than 1,000 jobs in the United States will be created or saved. In addition, AT&T piloted four Ford Escape hybrids, which were deployed in late 2007 in California. Tags: Conversions Fleets Natural Gas.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Partnerships like this make it feasible to address the industry’s distribution, installation and service/support gap for propane engines, broadening the potential for propane to become a widely utilized domestic fleet fuel. IMPCO’s bi-fuel system is a certified engine conversion for the following vehicles: 2007 5.4L 2008 and 2009 3.5L

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MAY 11, 2009

The first hydrogen station on the 580-kilometer (360-mile) route between Oslo and Stavanger opened at Forus in Stavanger in 2006, the second in Porsgrunn in 2007, and now the two new stations are open in Oslo and Lier. HyNor has some 50 partners and manages a fleet of more than 50 hydrogen vehicles made by Mazda, Toyota and Think.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

The loan, which originated through the Department’s loan guarantee program office, was issued as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program, a $25-billion program authorized by Congress as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery) Policy.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Featuring CleanFUEL’s new 8L liquid propane injection (LPI) system, the medium-duty engine will offer fleet managers a high-performance, propane-powered alternative. From a fleet standpoint, we see immense potential for this new 8L platform to stimulate additional interest and adoption in the market for propane-powered vehicles.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology. Over the past two years, Ford and its energy industry partners have logged more than 75,000 miles on the plug-in hybrid test fleet. Tags: Infrastructure Plug-ins.

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JUNE 1, 2009

The IDEA is a multi-purpose, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in the light truck classification aimed at commercial and government fleets. Tags: Brief. The company continues to work with the Department of Energy in support of its application.

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