Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2018

Lightning was one of the first to test under the newly released 2018 CARB efficiency and range validation test procedures for medium-duty vehicles, performed at the SGS Environmental Testing Center. The fuel cell uses hydrogen to charge the electric batteries for a longer-range zero-emissions fleet solution.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

A drivable prototype of the W-15 will be unveiled at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach, California, on May 2. Production models are scheduled for delivery in 2018. Workhorse has released initial specifications of its W-15 pickup truck, for which it has accumulated letters of intent for 2,150 units.

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2021

Amid a major hiring push and calls for monthly launches, SpaceX has taken its latest step towards launching Starlink satellites from the West Coast with a lease for rocket recovery ship dock space at the Port of Long Beach. In other words, Pier 16 is a perfect fit for SpaceX’s needs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

A zero-emission Kenworth Class 8 T680 day cab tractor equipped with a Ballard hydrogen fuel cell ( earlier post ) is on display at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The next step is real-world testing with Total Transportation Services Inc. TTSI) at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But with that mode of transportation predicted to double by 2050, only one-third of this additional travel can be handled by trains despite expansion of rail infrastructure. The eHighway is running on a two-kilometer section of the E16 highway north of Stockholm through 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The growth of BYD Coach and Bus reflects a rapid transition to electric transportation and will allow BYD to build up to 1,500 battery-electric buses annually. BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, unveiled its expanded battery-electric bus manufacturing facility in Lancaster, California—North America’s largest.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

Kenworth will build its first unit for this project in 2018. Kenworth engineers will be able to make design and system refinements to this 2018 unit based on data collected from this year’s real-world testing of the initial, 2017 hybrid-electric T680.

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Green Car Congress

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. Grouped under four categories, the 2017 CAAP’s near-term and long-term strategies include: Clean Vehicles, Equipment Technology and Fuels. Reduce GHGs from port‐related sources to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

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. The California Energy Commission approved a grant of $2.4

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

SpaceX completed its latest Falcon 9 launch – and 20th launch of 2021 – on June 30th, successfully deploying dozens of customer small satellites and three Starlink spacecraft as part of its second dedicated Smallsat Program ‘Transporter’ mission. SpaceX’s first ten space laser Starlink prototypes.

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Teslarati

MAY 28, 2021

B1049 hasn’t been the most rapidly reusable of the fleet and is the oldest Falcon booster still operational after debuting in September 2018. With B1049 now on site, FCC permits in work, and a new berth lease active in Port of Long Beach, the only real piece of the equation missing is a drone ship to support polar Starlink launches.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2023

In 2018 , the XPrize Foundation announced a competition (sponsored by the Japanese airline ANA) to create “an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real time,” with the goal of developing robotic systems that could be used by humans to interact with the world anywhere with a decent Internet connection.

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