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LADOT partnering with GMV and ViriCiti for e-bus management and maintenance

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The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is rapidly electrifying its fleet to meet sustainability goals set under the Green New Deal for Los Angeles. Using data is key to effectively serving the people of Los Angeles. In 2020, LADOT executed the purchase of 159 electric buses.

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2022 Los Angeles Auto Show Review

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Most of the vehicles debuting at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show were powered by some sort of electricity. Fiat stopped selling the Cinquecento, or 500e, in the United States (in reality California and Oregon only) in 2019. Electrified Debuts Dominate the Scene. Here, in alphabetical order, are the World or North American debuts.

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Clean Energy Fuels delivered 143M gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas in 2019, up 30% year-on-year

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Clean Energy Fuels Corp delivered 143 million gallons of Redeem Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) last year as robust sales of the carbon-neutral transportation fuel continued in 2019, closing out the year with significant deals throughout North America. In 2019 Clean Energy provided an estimated 16 million gallons of Redeem to UPS.

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Volvo Penta showcases production modular electric driveline at TOC Europe

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After its 2019 appearance at TOC Europe—the tradeshow for port and terminal technology and operations—as a proof of concept ( earlier post ), Volvo Penta’s purpose-built electric driveline is now powering a series of TICO’s electric terminal tractors as well as Rosenbauer’s electric fire trucks. Earlier post.).

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UPS collaborating with Workhorse to deploy 50 electric trucks; rivaling acquisition cost of conventional; no subsidies

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—Carlton Rose, President, Global Fleet Maintenance and Engineering for UPS. UPS will test the vehicles primarily on urban routes across the country, including Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. The company recently ordered 125 new fully-electric Semi tractors to be built by Tesla in 2019, the largest pre-order to date.

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Big Blue Bus investing $18.2M to upgrade bus fleet; Cummins-Westport Near-Zero NOx engines

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Big Blue Bus (BBB), a bus operator serving Santa Monica and the Los Angeles area, will invest $18.3 The agency plans to commission an additional twenty-three (23) 40-foot Gillig buses by December 2019. Earlier post.). The average age of BBB’s current fleet is less than 7 years old, outpacing an industry best practice of 8.5

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Joint CEC, CARB annual report details progress in build-out of hydrogen refueling infrastructure

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Combined with two additional California Air Resources Board-funded stations that are open non-retail (in Harbor City and at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)), California’s hydrogen refueling station network comprises 50 stations. When the 2015 Joint Report was published, six stations were open retail.

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