Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The California Air Resources Board settled eight diesel cases totaling more than $130,000 for violations of the Truck and Bus Regulation in the Imperial Valley. The Truck and Bus Regulation protects public health by reducing emissions of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other pollutants from diesel-fueled vehicles.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

According to the American Public Transit Association (APTA), alternative fuels and advanced hybrid drivetrains powered more than half of all transit buses in 2017 and 2018. In the ten-year period from 2008 to 2018, the share of conventional diesel buses dropped from 70% to 42%.

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MAY 5, 2023

The Starship initiative, launched in 2018, is intended to demonstrate how a Class 8 truck’s energy usage can be reduced by harnessing currently available energy-efficient technologies and lubricants. mpg in the 2018 run with Starship 1.0. The natural gas engine using Shell R-CNG will reduce emissions when compared with a diesel engine.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Pioneering methods to accelerate electric fleet adoption, AMPLY Power will demonstrate and document its Charging-as-a-Service approach for an all-electric school bus fleet in New York City. As the electric utility account holder for its fleet customers, AMPLY Power provides comprehensive end-to-end services to fleet operators.

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MAY 15, 2018

Kia Motors will introduce its first 48V diesel mild-hybrid powertrain in the second half of 2018. The Kia Sportage will be the first model to offer the new EcoDynamics+ diesel mild-hybrid powertrain later in 2018. Kia’s mild-hybrid technology features a compact 0.46 Kia’s mild-hybrid technology features a compact 0.46

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MAY 22, 2023

The e-City is based on GAZ’s diesel-powered City minibus.) Today Moscow is now considered to be the largest e-bus fleet in Europe and we are starting to test a new one of electric vehicles. —Maksim Liksutov, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Electric buses were launched in Moscow in 2018.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Attaining environmental benefits and lower cost of ownership are driving more commercial fleets to electrify, according to a new study by UPS and GreenBiz. Despite an appetite for electrification, many fleet operators face challenges. —Scott Phillippi, UPS senior director of automotive maintenance and engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At the IAA 2018, MAN Truck & Bus is presenting the MAN CitE 15-tonne electric truck concept, designed specifically for city cargo traffic. Using this agile approach, the MAN CitE could thus be implemented in a period of only 18 months and finally presented ready to drive at the IAA 2018.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Volkswagen Group rolled out a new diesel swapping program in Germany. Environmental incentives for scrappage of Euro-1 to Euro-4 diesel vehicles of any make are again being offered by some of the Group’s brands throughout Germany. million low-emission new Euro-6 diesel vehicles took to the roads in Germany, replacing old vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the company’s 2017 and 2018 vessel fleet visits to the Port of Oakland. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K. The original At-Berth Regulation, adopted in 2007, requires vessel fleets to reduce their diesel engine power generation while docked.

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MAY 16, 2018

San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which operates MUNI (the city’s public transit), announced San Francisco’s commitment to have an all-electric bus fleet by 2035. MUNI currently operates the largest fleet of electric trolley buses.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., The system easily integrates into any engine application and can be installed by Optimus, certified partners, or fleet technicians. out of Tokyo, Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2023

Moscow’s eco-friendly transport fleet is considered to be the largest in Europe. Electric buses were launched in Moscow more than 4 years ago, in 2018. Replacing diesel buses with electric ones on these bus routes will help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 5.2 The power reserve has been increased up to 90 km.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland, Alstom, Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH (NASA) and Rolls-Royce plan to implement jointly a new hybrid drive solution on Abellio’s fleet of Coradia Lint diesel trains. Subsequent conversion of the entire fleet of 54 Coradia Lint vehicles is under consideration.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Volvo Trucks first launched the LNG product offering in 2017 with serial production beginning in 2018 for the European markets. Combined with Westport’s high-pressure direct gas-injection system, these vehicles offer the same drivability, performance, and torque levels as diesel engines, but with lower CO 2 emissions.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Electric buses were launched in Moscow in 2018. In 2021, Moscow stopped buying diesel buses for the major surface public transport operator. Nearly 40% of all surface transport fleet will be electric. In the meantime, this innovative surface transport has proved its efficiency.

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APRIL 1, 2023

This waiver request also includes two additional regulations: The Zero Emission Airport Shuttle Bus (ZEAS) Regulation , which establishes steadily increasing zero-emission airport shuttle fleet composition requirements for airport shuttle fleet owners who service the 13 largest California airports.

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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.)

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Nearly 500 of these will be added to the SUE Mosgortrans bus fleet and hit the streets of Moscow in 2023 while the rest of the electric buses will be received in 2024. On behalf of the Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, we are purchasing Russian-made electric buses, the eco-friendly vehicles that replace diesel buses. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 16, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff will host a public workshop on 11 February to discuss ideas and strategies to reduce in-use emissions from heavy-duty diesel vehicles operating in the State of California. These regulations require heavy-duty vehicles operating in California to be inspected for excessive smoke and tampering.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

The New York City Council passed a bill mandating that the city’s school bus fleet be fully electric by 1 September 2035. Of the 960 currently managed by the City, 885 would still be need to be converted from diesel to electric as the City had previously committed to converting 75 school buses. 455 on 14 February 2018.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Audi of America introduced four new TDI clean diesel models for the US market this year—the Audi A8, A7, A6, Q5—along with an updated Q7 TDI, all equipped with a second-generation 3.0L V6 TDI diesel engine. ” One of our primary goals and objectives is to level the playing field for clean diesel vehicles.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Moreover, the average mass of new conventional cars, excluding SUV, increased by around 22 kg from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, as in 2018, gasoline cars were the most sold passenger vehicles, constituting 59% of all new registrations. Diesel vehicles constituted 31% of new registrations. g CO 2 /km.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

BYD e6 electric cars to the fleet. Last month, the Mayor of London announced that from 1 January 2018, all new taxis would have to be zero-emission capable in order to gain an operating licence. Thriev , a company offering zero-emission, chauffeured cars to corporate and private users in London, is adding 20. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 25, 2019

This is comparable to the life expectancy of a diesel engine in a transit bus. Diesel buses have an engine that is sometimes rebuilt halfway through its usable life at 6 years/250,000 miles on average. —Eudy and Post (2018). Post (2018) Fuel Cell Buses in U.S. Resources. Eudy and M.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

To date its one Achilles heel, particularly of older models, has been the pollution generated by chugging diesel engines. As part of my mission to improve our air quality and drive innovation, I’m making a firm pledge to Londoners that from 2018 all taxis presented for licensing should be zero emission capable.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. decline in new diesel registrations. less CO 2 than those they replaced.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Three out of four commercial trucks on the road today—and 98% of Class 8 trucks—are powered by diesel. While medium- and heavy-duty vehicles represented only 6% of vehicles registered in 2018, they were responsible for 26% of petroleum consumption and 23% of US transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

In 2018, both entities signed a contract for the supply of charging stations to the most populous region of the country, Île-de-France. Ekoenergetyka’s contract is part of the ambitious plan of the regional transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) to eliminate all diesel buses.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Medium-sized battery-electric cars are on average 14% cheaper to run than equivalent diesels today, if slow charging overnight near home and/or fast charging at preferential rates are available. T&E’s lifecycle CO 2 emission calculator estimates that today EVs cut CO 2 emissions by two-thirds on average across Europe compared to diesel cars.

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MAY 4, 2021

Following on the introduction of R33 Blue Diesel ( earlier post ), Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now developed a low-carbon gasoline. This means a fleet of 1,000 VW Golf VIII 1.5 emissions from the vehicle fleet. R33 Blue Diesel is also becoming available at regular filling stations in Germany.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Moscow, Russia, currently runs 1000 electric public electric buses on 66 bus routes, giving it the distinction of operating the largest e-bus fleet in Europe and America. Today nearly half of the Moscow e-bus fleet has been financed by green bonds. Moscow stopped buying diesel buses for the surface public transport operator in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Volkswagen has been testing the newly developed R33 BlueDiesel fuel blend at its in-house filling station in Wolfsburg since January 2018. The current supplier since January 2018 is Shell Global Solutions in cooperation with Tecosol and Neste, who supply fuels certified according to European standards.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Jost Group signs a supply agreement for 500 IVECO Stralis NP trucks, targeting 35% conversion of its fleet to LNG by 2020. Designed to be the most sustainable long-distance heavy truck ever manufactured, the new deliveries will run on LNG—widely regarded as the only currently available mass market alternative to diesel.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The 2017 Cruze Diesel Sedan ( earlier post ) fitted with the six-speed manual transmission offers an EPA-estimated highway mileage of 52 mpg (4.52 Cruze Diesel with the nine-speed automatic achieves an EPA-estimated highway economy of up to 47 mpg and 31 city mpg, which results in 37 mpg combined. l/100 km), resulting in 37 mpg (6.35

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Representatives from the State of Hesse, RMV (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund), Alstom and Infraserv broke ground for a hydrogen filling station on the site of the Höchst industrial park in Frankfurt that will supply a fleet of 27 passenger fuel cell trains—currently, the world’s largest such.

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