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APRIL 7, 2018

Big Blue Bus (BBB), a bus operator serving Santa Monica and the Los Angeles area, will invest $18.3 We are making a significant investment to modernize one quarter of our fleet with new and exciting technology that will deliver a safer, more comfortable travel experience for customers and operators. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 8, 2016

The new medium-duty delivery trucks, added to the company’s existing autogas fleet of 30 Ford trucks of the same model, will also help the company save on maintenance and fuel costs. Deployments in 2016 will include New York City, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. million pounds.

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MARCH 26, 2022

To provide not only a look back, but a look into the future, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles currently has an exhibit called “Building An Electric Future: The Technology Of Today For The Vehicles Of Tomorrow.” Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity to tour the exhibit, where there were electric cars spanning 107 years.

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JULY 11, 2016

Launching in San Francisco in the summer of 2016 and in Los Angeles by the fall, Express Drive’s California members will have access to vehicles from the largest electric vehicle fleet in ridesharing, including the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV and the extended-range electric 2016 Chevrolet Volt. and Baltimore.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

(PCNA) has enrolled all cars at its two Experience Centers—sand its fleet in the monthly subscription pilot, Porsche Passport—sin Porsche Impact. Following its corporate fleets, PCNA will soon offer Porsche Impact to USA customers who want to reduce the CO 2 footprint of their internal-combustion engines.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2014-2016, COSCO’s visits to these ports did not meet operational time limits for at least half of the visits.

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JUNE 27, 2013

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Board of Directors approved a contract with BYD Motors for the manufacture and delivery of up to 25 new all-electric buses as part of a $30-million clean air bus technology pilot project. —Michael D. Antonovich, LA County Supervisor and Metro Board Chair.

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AUGUST 13, 2015

million to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to build and to test seven hybrid fuel-cell, Class 8 trucks to transport cargo at the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports. gallon per minute flow rate on 1 July 2016. effective 1 September.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2016

Ford Fusion electrified vehicle retail sales spiked in the Los Angeles market during the month of June, the first month of availability for the new 2017 model. Both of these numbers are retail sales and do not include fleet sales. Both of these numbers are retail sales and do not include fleet sales.

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MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. —Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

the largest heavy-duty transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is adding the 2016 Cummins Westport ISL G Near Zero engine ( earlier post ) to its Xcelsior bus family. LA Metro operates the largest natural gas engine transit vehicle fleet in North America. Flyer of America Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

UPS plans to deploy 50 plug-in electric delivery trucks that will be comparable in acquisition cost to conventional-fueled trucks without any subsidies—an industry first that would breaki a key barrier to large scale adoption of electric fleets. —Carlton Rose, President, Global Fleet Maintenance and Engineering for UPS.

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AUGUST 26, 2017

The first phase of the zero-emissions Long Beach Container Terminal opened on Pier E in 2016, helping to drive down the air pollution tallied in the Port’s annual Emissions Inventory, which was completed this week. With the opening of Long Beach Container Terminal, 11% of the Port’s fleet of cargo-handling equipment is zero-emissions.

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MAY 26, 2016

and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. METS-1, which was piloted at the Port of Los Angeles, is one of only two existing ARB-approved alternatives to shore power.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. In June 2016, Siemens launched the world’s first eHighway system on public roads in Sweden. Siemens and the California South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) are conducting a one-mile, zero-emission eHighway demonstration in Carson, Calif., Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JULY 21, 2017

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released the draft of their proposed 2017 C lean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update. The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach are the two largest ports in the nation, first and second respectively, and combined are the ninth-largest port complex in the world.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL customers ventured beyond Southern California last week for the first time, while only filling up at existing public hydrogen stations along the route from Los Angeles to San Francisco. More than 40 public retail hydrogen stations are planned to be opened in 2016. million kilometers).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Redesigned Top Selling Sedan Goes All Hybrid Toyota made a splash at the 116th Los Angeles Auto Show this week with the debut of the redesigned, ninth generation 2025 Camry, which will now only be offered as a hybrid.

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MAY 15, 2019

In the US, Audi customers have been using this service since late 2016. This service is now available at more than 5,000 intersections in the US, for example in cities including Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Portland and Washington D.C. Stop-and-go traffic in cities is annoying.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

between 2016 and 2017, bringing the state’s ZEV market share to 4.5%, compared to 3.6% However, California is lagging behind when it comes to ensuring its charging infrastructure keeps up with the growth of its electric vehicle fleet, the report finds. It introduced 25 new models in 2016 and saw sales jump 70%.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

The bid evaluation committee chose BYD amongst a pool of 5 bidders for its successful 12-meter electric bus, which is already used in cities such as London, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, etc. In November 2011, the company signed its first MOU with the Ministry of Industry and the Secretary of Transport.

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APRIL 9, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved the 2015-2016 Investment Plan Update for its Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP). The project will provide a high-tech manufacturing plant in the heart of the Los Angeles region, the largest bus market in the United States. Earlier post.) TransPower.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Known as Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY), a name derived from late science fiction author Iain Banks’ Culture universe, the drone ship supported its first Falcon booster landing attempt in March 2016 and successfully recovered a booster two months later.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The overall bus MBRC for the BEB fleet was more than 9,000. This will be a major challenge for any fleet looking to deploy electric buses that charge during peak times. Foothill reports that there is still a lot of learning as the agency ramps up to a larger BEB fleet. This resulted in an ESS-related MBRC of more than 133,000.

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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. By replacing aging fleet vehicles with Proterra electric buses, the City of Fairfield will improve both route efficiency and air quality. Alabama A&M University.

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MARCH 15, 2017

On 25 October 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California approved a proposed 2.0-liter Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento). liter Consent Decree. Background. Green City.

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MAY 12, 2015

These three geographical areas will each have approximately 50 stations by 2016 and plans to expand this cumulatively to a multiple hundreds by 2020 and thousands in the decade thereafter. GM already has a fleet of vehicles that has accumulated more than 3 million miles of real world driving. —Jesse Schneider. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has placed an initial order for 10 Lion Electric LionC school buses. The district’s boundaries stretch across 720 square miles and include the City of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 municipalities and several unincorporated regions of Southern California.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

The top set of recommendations call for: Replacing existing switch and medium horsepower locomotives with cleaner locomotives (2010-2013); Retrofitting switch and medium horsepower locomotive with particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) after-treatment devices (2012-2016); and.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

million vehicles from the road each year, or the total number of cars in Los Angeles and New York City combined. United has sourced more than 2 million gallons of sustainable aviation biofuel since 2016 and is responsible for more than 50% of the airline industry’s commitments to biofuel.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

EVgo’s US network of DC fast chargers provided 40 million miles of electric driving in 2017; in 2016, the figure was 22 million EV miles. million charging sessions, an increase of 50% over 2016, equal to 28 million minutes of DC fast charging, an average of 25 minutes per session. Network usage set a record with 1.1

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MARCH 18, 2024

The Mirai has had only a little competition Along with the Mirai, the Hyundai Nexo FCEV (and its predecessor, the Hyundai Tucson FCEV ) has been on sale in California since around 2016 and makes-up a part of the total 18,025 FCEVs sold in California. See Clean Fleet Reviews at the end of the story. 2017 Mirai review here.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

When Clean Fleet Report reviewed the first generation Toyota Mirai (see reviews at the end of the story), we weren’t all that excited about the look, but did like the way it handled freeway driving and quickly realized it was nothing exciting/fun to drive. Clean Fleet Report drove the 2022 Mirai 232 miles through Southern California.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of existing gasoline engine technologies. Currently, they have a fleet of 116 vehicles spread throughout the world: Los Angeles, NYC, Washington, Berlin, Shanghai and Seoul. Click to enlarge. Ecotec VVT I-4 will have E85 versions, starting in 2010.

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JULY 3, 2017

Liter Partial Consent Decree entered by the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 Heavy-duty hydrogen projects, such as freight fleet or shuttle programs, in this or future plans. Background. Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The fleet of SSTs would emit an additional 1.6

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The pilot program is now available at five airports, including La Guardia Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. It was acquired by Accor Hotels in 2016. In the United States, Amtrak’s new fleet of high-speed trains could soon enter service in the Northeast Corridor, although no start date has been set.

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