Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Thirteen environmental groups working on clean transportation solutions sent a letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) urging it to select plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) for the next generation of delivery vehicles (NGDV). The winner of the contract will be announced in early 2018, with deployment likely to begin in Q1 2020.

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Plug-in Plug Vehicles Fleet 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Among the actions announced are: Unlocking up to $4.5

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Obama Charging Financing DC 150

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Netherlands-based Rocsys makes robotic devices that allow EVs to be charged without human intervention (see the feature in our January/February 2020 issue). As Rocsys co-founder and CEO Crijn Bouman pointed out, “It doesn’t make sense to have to manually plug it in while the vehicle can just park itself.” Crijn Bouman: Yeah.

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Fleet Charging Plug-in Standards 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Fifty-one projects in 39 states will receive a share of the funding.

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Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet 191

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the past two years, the U.S. Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C C in this century. How did REPEAT come together?

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 91

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Unlike individual car owners, fleet operators know exactly how many miles their vehicles travel, and they aren’t likely to be swayed by questions of styling or coolness factors—if you can demonstrate that an EV will save them money, then you should be able to make a sale. In the real world, things haven’t been that simple.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Hundreds of Tesla Model Y all-electric crossovers have been spotted in the lots of Gigafactory Texas in the past few weeks, with some being spotted on haulers to be driven to destinations not known. The 2022 Model Y RWD, which is the variant that Tesla ultimately did not sell , gained its Certificate of Conformity from the EPA on September 28.

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Texas EPA Tesla Austin 102

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Scott Barraclough: We’ve been running tests since 2020. Mack Trucks has been building refuse vehicles for decades, so it’s no surprise to find that the company is now building an electric refuse truck. Mack’s first foray into electrification was in the 2000s, when it built a couple of diesel hybrid garbage trucks.

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New York New York City Charging Fleet 85

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. He predicted that 10 percent of the cars sold would be electric vehicles by 2020.

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San Francisco Neighborhood Electric Electrical 100

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Clean Fleet Report spent a few hours recently on the loose rocks and gravel, washboard roads and deep ruts of the beautiful Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. Upgrades from the standard Forester touch the engine, transmission, suspension, towing capacity, ground clearance, tires and even the seat coverings. Propulsion. cubic feet to 74.2

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MPG Clean Cleaning Fleet 67

Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Two obstacles stood in his way. One was affordability. Even without a son soon to be entering college, the premium prices of EVs were a turnoff. Consumer surveys from J.D.

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Minneapolis Installation Charging Building 77