Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Audi of America is offering qualified customers who purchase or lease a 2021 Audi e-tron or e-tron Sportback a subscription to Arcadia at no additional charge for up to five years. Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2023

All are paired as standard with an 8-speed automatic gearbox and the 4MOTION permanent all-wheel drive. Sales of the Touareg in North America were discontinued in the 2017 model year in favor of the new Atlas, designed for the US. The third generation made its debut in 2018 with a new plug-in hybrid drive. All use a 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Electrify America launched a mobile app, available for both Android and iPhone. The company also is introducing two charging membership plans called Electrify America Pass and Electrify America Pass+. The Electrify America allows users to: Locate a Charger: Find a charging station near you and get directions.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Photo: Daimler Trucks North America Daimler Truck North America just launched a dealer certification program to ensure a “world-class” experience for its electric truck buyers. The post Daimler Truck North America rolls out its EV dealer certification program appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. Get started here. –ad*

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2017

At the 2017 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), GMC introduced the 2018 Terrain compact SUV. The recently announced 2018 Chevrolet Equinox compact SUV will also feature the same powertrain choices: 1.5 The recently announced 2018 Chevrolet Equinox compact SUV will also feature the same powertrain choices: 1.5

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 28, 2023

In November 2022, Tesla released specifications for what it dubbed the North American Charging Standard (NACS) , essentially offering it to the EV industry at large. Fury at Electrify America It’s hard to overstate the disgust and anger at Electrify America among virtually every person we interviewed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The CNG buses will be equipped with 2018 Cummins L9N engines, which provide a significantly reduced carbon footprint supporting TransLink’s planned fleet rejuvenation initiative and vision for increasingly sustainable transit. to 0.02g/bhp-hr. Earlier post.) to 0.02g/bhp-hr. Earlier post.) The funds are administered in B.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2019

Electrify America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America that is investing $2 billion over 10 years in Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure, education and access, has launched its first mobile app; a new pricing structure; and two new membership plans to help increase electric vehicle adoption.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

The 2018 Toyota Camry will be the first Toyota vehicle on the market with the AGL-based system in the United States. More than 100 members are working together to develop a common platform that can serve as the de facto industry standard. —Keiji Yamamoto, Executive Vice President, Connected Company of Toyota Motor Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2017

Cummins Westport (CWI) announced its model year 2018 dedicated natural gas engines for regional haul truck / tractor, vocational and transit, school bus, and refuse applications at the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, California. CWI natural gas engines have met the 2010 EPA standard for particulate matter (0.01

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. The current limit values in Mexico are equivalent to Euro IV or EPA 2004 standards. Source: ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This award follows on the original TTC order from New Flyer in June 2018 for ten battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE buses, and increases TTC’s total order to 20 vehicles. NFI has more than 50 years of experience in manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs), with more electric buses on the road in North America than any other manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. New energy efficiency standards. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This marks the most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, and is intended to achieve significant health benefits on a global scale. M childhood asthma cases annually, and more stringent standards beyond 2020 may provide additional health benefits. —i.e., —Sofiev et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

The largest sales market for the Volkswagen Group is the Asia-Pacific region, followed by Western Europe, North America, South America and Central and Eastern Europe. Strategy 2018. By 2018, “Think Blue. Volkswagen has also established a global standard to ensure uniform interpretation of the respective indicators.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Thomas Built Buses (TBB), a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America; its exclusive Virginia dealer, Sonny Merryman Inc.; TBB and Proterra unveiled the high-performance Jouley electric school bus in 2018. and Proterra celebrated the delivery of the 50 th Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley battery-electric school bus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The 2018 Toyota Camry, the new eighth-generation of the most popular mid-size sedan in the world and the best-selling car in America for the past 15 years, will be going on sale in the US in late summer. Toyota unveiled the 2018 Camry at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in January. 2018 Toyota Camry Hybrid XLE.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

A key element of that partnership is a goal for North America to strive to achieve 50% clean power generation by 2025. As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

New Flyer of America Inc., With NFA’s successful completion of Altoona Testing, US transit agencies can now utilize FTA funding in support of their purchases of 60-foot (battery and fuel cell) electric Bus Rapid Transit (eBRT) buses from New Flyer, further enabling smart mobility solutions for cities across North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

The companies will also work toward standardizing equipment and processes to achieve world-class quality, higher throughput and greater affordability. In 2018, Honda joined GM’s EV battery module development efforts. The compact crossover segment is the largest in the world, with annual volumes of more than 13 million vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

All three companies violated provisions of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). SK Energy Americas agreed to a $395,000 penalty for failure to meet the carbon intensity target for 2014. SK Energy Americas agreed to pay the $395,000 penalty because it failed to cover its deficit in 2014.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

New Flyer of America Inc. New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions was also selected to provide and commission four Siemens direct current depot chargers that conform to Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE) J1772 Combined Charging System Type 1 standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Audi of America officially announced plans today for the arrival in the US of the new A3 family of premium compact cars, with three body styles, five new engines and seven variants including its plug-in hybrid model. Krebs stressed that the Volkswagen Group aims to become a leader in e-mobility by 2018. The A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid.

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APRIL 17, 2019

New Flyer of America Inc. The program, officially launched in January 2018, continues to evaluate electric buses as a zero-emission solution for America’s largest public transit system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Con Edison and its partners have begun sending power from the bus batteries into its grid, a milestone in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) demonstration project Con Edison began in 2018. The White Plains school district put the buses on the road for the 2018-2019 school year and has found them to be reliable transportation. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

At the SAE 2017 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium last week, an overview of the plans for testing to validate power levels up to WPT 3, (11kW) for SAE J2954TM were shown along with a preview of the technology to be standardized in the upcoming Recommended Practice. Earlier post.). 7.7kW) in 2016. —Jesse Schneider.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that establishes the required renewable fuel volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for 2019, and biomass-based diesel for 2020. Advanced biofuel volumes for 2019 will increase by 630 million gallons over the 2018 standard.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Harbour Air first demonstrated its commitment to sustainability by becoming the first fully carbon-neutral airline in North America in 2007, through the purchase of carbon offsets. In 2018, 75% of worldwide airline flights were 1,000 miles or less in range. —Roei Ganzarski, CEO of magniX.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

New Flyer of America Inc. NFI), the largest bus manufacturer in North America, have launched of their Autonomous Technology Program. New Flyer will actively participate in development of SAE-related recommended practices and standards. and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The report shows that the three largest exporters of used vehicles—the European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States of America (USA)—exported 14 million used light duty vehicles (LDVs) worldwide between 2015 and 2018. The EU was the largest exporter with 54% of the total followed by Japan (27%) and the USA (18%).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In its International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050. million vehicles in 2018 to 169 million in 2050, and electric vehicle stocks in the non-OECD countries are projected to increase from 2.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The joint venture ELYSIS —formed by Alcoa and Rio Tinto in 2018 ( earlier post )—is now further developing this process. EcoLum is delivered globally from predominantly hydro-powered smelters in North America and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2019

the largest food industry redistributor in North America, announced the deployment of an Orange EV T-Series battery-electric terminal truck at Dot’s operation in Modesto, CA. Dot Foods California introduced the all-electric truck at the end of 2018, and the vehicle has been well-received by drivers. a subsidiary of Dot Foods, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Daimler Trucks will begin production of the new medium-duty DD5 and DD8 diesel engines for the NAFTA market in Detroit effective 2018. With local production of the DT12 transmission, previously sourced from the Mercedes-Benz plant in Gaggenau / Baden, Germany, Daimler Trucks can now respond more quickly to the rising demand in North America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Volkswagen Group of America has created a wholly‐owned subsidiary— Electrify America —that will be an entity focused on ZEVs that can efficiently and effectively fulfill the ZEV investment commitments under the Appendix C. The first 30-month cycle runs from Q1 2017 through Q2 2019. personnel, other business expenses).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Researchers from the University of Houston and the Toyota Research Institute of America have discovered a promising new version of high-energy magnesium batteries, with potential applications ranging from electric vehicles to battery storage for renewable energy systems. Dong et al. 2018.11.022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

New Flyer of America Inc. NFI is the only provider of full suite bus solutions in North America, offering transit, motor coach, and low-floor cutaway buses. and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC (collectively New Flyer), subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc. Earlier post.).

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