Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 16, 2015
The City of Oakland, California has begun filling up its vehicles with Neste’s NEXBTL renewable diesel in order to reduce the emissions of their municipal fleet. Oakland is the first major US city to convert their entire fleet to renewable diesel. The City will consume about 230,000 gallons of renewable diesel per year.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2015
San Francisco announced December 11, 2015 that the City and County of San Francisco has completely ended its use of petroleum diesel in the City’s fleet and replaced it with renewable diesel. This switch from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel will achieve a 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the city’s diesel fleet.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 20, 2011
In 2010, British Airways announced that it would, in partnership with the Solena Group, establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2015
In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Ford CEO Mark Fields at 2015 Further with Ford. Click to enlarge. It runs through November.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2015
mile per gallon fleet average fuel economy requirement set for automotive companies to be met by 2025. 2 ] The University of Michigan, The University of Iowa, Wayne State University, Clemson University, Oakland University, and Virginia Tech. [ Automotive Research Center.” 4 ] teleoperation, shared control, and full autonomy. [
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
outreach events, informational websites; electric car sharing services; and government and fleet programs) and median income in each city to be correlated significantly with new electric vehicle sales share. The major metropolitan areas in California had 3 to 13 times the average US electric vehicle uptake in 2015.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Along with the Energy Commission grant, Mission Motor Company will provide match funding of $623,581 to create an assembly facility in downtown San Francisco that should be capable of producing 30,000 battery packs and motor control systems each year by 2015, creating as many as 100 jobs. Natural gas-powered vehicle fueling.
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