Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has received approval to establish the nation’s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) export compensation mechanism for commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging customers in its California service area.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) is leading a landmark effort along with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks across California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division will purchase 100 Newton Series 2000 all-electric commercial vehicles in 2012 from Smith Electric Vehicles, bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. The all-electric trucks are delivery trucks used on urban routes with fewer daily miles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The Volvo LIGHTS project will involve 16 partners, and transform freight operations at the facilities of two of the United States’ top trucking fleets. . The project will also integrate non-truck battery-electric equipment, non-proprietary chargers, and solar energy production equipment.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Volvo Trucks will introduce all-electric Volvo VNR regional-haul demonstrators in California next year, operating in distribution, regional-haul and drayage operations. Sales of the VNR Electric in North America will begin in 2020. —Peter Voorhoeve, president of Volvo Trucks North America.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Hyliion Holdings, a provider of electrified powertrain solutions for Class 8 commercial vehicles, instroduced its next generation battery module which integrates Toshiba’s LTO cells with Hyliion’s technology to achieve longer battery life, higher charging rates and improved safety.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group and a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, has installed charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks as part of its ongoing partnership with Volvo Trucks. Heavy-duty fleets have unique charging characteristics and needs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) will demonstrate a combination of technologies that will produce hydrogen from renewable natural gas (RNG) at SunLine Transit Agency’s hydrogen fueling station in Thousand Palms, California. The SunLine location will be able to produce up to 650 kilograms of hydrogen a day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Volvo Trucks North America announced today that third-party supply chain solutions provider NFI began piloting two Volvo VNR Electric trucks as part of the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project, becoming the third company to deploy its battery-electric trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

The Lithium-Sulfur pilot line will begin delivering commercial battery cells in 2023 to early-adopting customers within the defense, automotive, logistics, and satellite sectors. Battery delivery will be used to support testing, qualification and initial commercialization across the sectors. Lyten, Inc., Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America said this morning it has introduced a Volvo VNR electric class 8 tractor into Martin Brower’s fleet of commercial vehicles in collaboration with McDonald’s Canada. “It’s a strong statement when all key partners align towards clear greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

These achievements highlight the company’s ability to leverage existing infrastructure within the transportation sector, giving it a clear advantage to scale quickly and move to commercialization. The commencement of ClearFlame’s first pilot fleet trial with Beck’s, highlighting strong interest from commercial fleets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel cell electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power. —Nico Bouwkamp, Frontier Energy’s H2@Scale project manager.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

ABB’s charging systems can charge any electric vehicle (EV) battery at up to 920 VDC, enabling faster charge times and greater commercial fleet utilization for this project. ABB enables OCPP and Autocharge open protocol network integrations that deliver fleets smarter charging as well as authentication modes and asset security.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Upon review of the motion, the CPUC issued a decision extending that exemption to medium- and heavy-duty charging station providers and directed Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas & Electric to modify their respective Electric Rule 18 tariffs to allow this resale of electricity as a motor fuel for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

The Port of Los Angeles and its partners rolled out five new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) and introduced two hydrogen fueling stations. The Port’s technology development partners are Toyota Motor North America, which designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power supply system; Kenworth Truck Co.,

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

New federal EV tax credits were expanded and updated, and credits for used and commercial EVs became available for the first time in January. The tax credits are pretty complicated, but Plug In America was committed to providing timely, accurate information to help drivers understand the tax credits.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

Motiv Power Systems, a sustainable technology company delivering all-electric chassis with a proven software platform for the electrification of medium-duty trucks and buses, secured $15 million of additional funding from GMAG Holdings Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

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.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2012

Frito-Lay is growing its electric truck fleet in California. Once all of the vehicles are deployed by the end of 2012, California will be home to 105 all-electric delivery trucks, the largest deployment in any state. In May of this year, Frito-Lay reached a milestone of one million all-electric miles driven.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2022

—Bob Bremmer, Group Vice President for Wabtec’s Fleet Innovation and Transformation division. Wabtec continues to be a good innovation partner for us – last year, we piloted the first battery-electric freight locomotive in North America. —John Lovenburg, Vice President, Environment & Sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Six new corporate partners have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. The new partners—Coca-Cola, Enterprise Holdings, General Electric, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Ryder, and Staples—operate a total of nearly a million commercial vehicles nationwide. Earlier post.) This project is expected to save 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic. And we have to do it quickly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million to seven projects to develop medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans across 23 states. The selected projects are: CALSTART: East Coast Commercial ZEV Corridor. Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Three of the largest commercial truck manufacturers have joined forces on charging infrastructure. all have battery-electric vehicles in production. Electric Island – Daimler Trucks North America and PGE – Portland OR Indeed, the Department of Energy lists only nine fast charging stations in the U.S.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2023

Ford has unveiled its latest electric van offering, the E-Transit Courier, further expanding its lead in the commercial sector. Ford is the clear leader in the electric van market, especially in the United States, where the company proudly advertises that it currently constitutes roughly 90% of sales.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

However, Navigant says, the adoption of electric buses (e-buses) will continue to rise as battery prices decline and a greater importance is placed on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Fleets can take advantage of increasing government support to help surmount the high upfront costs associated with e-buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

is developing the first North American designed and built 60-foot battery-electric/fuel cell hybrid bus that will operate in daily service. The electric propulsion system being integrated into New Flyer’s Buy America-compliant Xcelsior X60 heavy-duty transit bus platform includes a combination of batteries, a fuel cell, and hydrogen storage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

The City of Santa Monica, California has awarded Clean Energy a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract to fuel its Big Blue Bus (BBB) fleet of vehicles. ARB has defined this certified Near Zero NO x emission level as equivalent to a 100% battery truck using electricity from a modern combined cycle natural gas power plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2019

New Flyer of America announced that a test demonstration with a New Flyer 40', heavy-duty fuel-cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) achieved 350-miles (563 km) of zero-emission range. These results exceeded the 300-mile range performance target by 17% without refueling.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

One of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of commercial fleet electrification has very little to do with the truck itself, and everything to do with the availability of aftermarket and upfit options for the utility, sweeper, dump truck, hook towing, and other specialty segments of the market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2011

SourceOne, Veolia Energy North America’s energy management and consulting services subsidiary, will install shore-side power at New Bedford’s Fisherman’s Wharf for use by the fishing fleet to power their boats instead of using on-board diesel generators. The project is in support of the New Bedford (Mass.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Volkswagen of America will invest $10 million by 2016 to support the build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the US, said Jörg Sommer, vice president, product marketing and strategy. Earlier post.) Volkswagen will also invest to support installation of charging stations in certain dealer locations. —Jörg Sommer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2013

The relative shift away from motor gasoline to diesel is driven by improving light-duty vehicle fuel economy and the growth in commercial transportation activity. About 80% of the growth in commercial transport demand will come from developing nations, according to the forecast. Mix of the global vehicle fleet.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Ford Motor Company announced today that it has successfully started shipping its brand new all-electric E-Transit van to customers, working to fulfill the over 10,000 orders the automaker has to for the vehicle. Ford is using the moniker Ford Pro to launch forward its commercial and government accounts.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 19, 2023

Frito-Lay has been showcasing its latest fleet of all-electric Class 8 trucks since it took delivery of the first few of its Tesla Semis in December. ” Along with the Tesla Semi and four Tesla 750kW charging stations, Frito-Lay displayed the following at the showcase: Three BYD 8Y electric yard tractors.

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