Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2022

Guayule is grown and processed at the company’s R&D facilities in Arizona and made into the Firestone Firehawk alternate race tires at its Akron, Ohio, race tire production facility. Bridgestone aims to commercialize use of guayule rubber in tires by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

Nikola Corporation has begun commercial serial truck production of the Nikola Tre BEV (battery-electric vehicle); initial customer shipments have begun. Phase 1 of the Coolidge, Arizona manufacturing facility provides Nikola with a production capacity of 2,500 trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Under the commercial agreement, United has agreed to purchase at least 300 million gallons of SAF over 20 years from Dimensional. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ford Pro Insure expanded its insurance offering for commercial vehicles to Indiana and Wisconsin. Besides Indiana and Wisconsin, Ford’s insurance for commercial vehicles is also available in Arizona, Illinois, and Tennessee. The right commercial auto insurance can help them run efficient and productive fleets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

As part of a broader initiative to accelerate the use of sustainable technologies in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) announced plans to debut Firestone Firehawk race tires made with guayule natural rubber grown and extracted at the company’s guayule R&D facilities in Arizona. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The I-10 Electric Corridor will consist of multiple facilities, called TeraWatt Charging Centers, that will be spread across California, Arizona, and New Mexico. The TeraWatt Charging Centers are located approximately 150 miles apart to support the mileage range of commercially available electric trucks.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Joining Bridgestone, additional partners in the $35-million guayule climate-smart grant include the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, OpenET, Environmental Defense Fund, Tohono O’odham Nation and Colorado River Indian Tribes, and eight regional growers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Li-Cycle has started commercial operations in its Alabama Spoke located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The facility is of the same design as the Company’s Spoke in Arizona, which opened earlier this year and is currently operating near target throughput. Li-Cycle is targeting to commence commissioning the Rochester Hub in calendar 2023.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2021

Sion Power is producing up to 17 Ah Licerion-EV cells at its facility in Tucson, Arizona, by stacking electrodes with an approximate size of 100 mm x 100 mm on its pilot systems. Although we have seen many high-energy battery companies in the news, few of them claim to produce cells in high-capacity commercial sizes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At full operation, the Lancaster facility will be one of the largest commercial-scale recycling facilities in North America, producing enough battery-grade critical minerals to power more than 200,000 new electric vehicles (EVs) annually. The Eloy facility is expected to process enough battery material to power 50,000 EVs annually.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The new project is the first to pair a commercial electricity generator with high-temperature steam electrolysis (HTSE) technology. Commercial hydrogen production via low-temperature electrolysis will be demonstrated by a previously awarded project, which launched in September 2019. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Li-Cycle Holdings announced the start of commercial operations at its first Spoke recycling facility in Europe, located in Magdeburg, Germany. Li-Cycle has also announced plans to develop a second commercial Hub in Europe. Each main line has the capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of lithium-ion battery material per year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2012

Heliae Development, LLC , an Arizona-based algae technology company, broke ground on a commercial demonstration facility that will showcase the scalability and economics of its proprietary algae technology platform. Earlier post. ).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

announced that its fleet of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) has surpassed 100 million miles of operations, making it the first commercial fleet outsourcing provider to reach this milestone. Ryder plays an important role in advancing the environmental sustainability of commercial transportation and logistics. Ryder System, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

a leader in commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions, launched its new “ Flex-to-Green ” lease offering, making it easier for private fleet operators to jump start their sustainability programs by providing the option of incorporating alternative fuel vehicles into their fleets in support of their business objectives.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. The timing of the turbocharger-toting technician walking the banked oval worked out well for everyone involved in this commercial. 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D W123 in Arizona wrecking yard.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

IKEA US announced a collaboration with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to bring ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet electric vehicle (EV) charging to more than 25 IKEA retail locations throughout the US. The first locations are expected to open in late 2022 and be completed by the end of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2023

The new tire is the first street tire to utilize natural rubber derived from the guayule desert shrub cultivated at Bridgestone’s guayule R&D agricultural facility in Eloy, Arizona. The company is targeting commercial production of guayule-derived natural rubber by the end of the decade.

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Electrek

JANUARY 13, 2023

Commercial EV manufacturing Nikola Corporation announced it is moving its battery manufacturing operation from its current site in Cypress, California to its production facility in Coolidge, Arizona. With the move, Nikola will create on holistic EV assembly process all taking place under one roof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Commercial real estate developer Hillwood announced that TuSimple, a self-driving technology company with a focus on heavy-duty trucks ( earlier post ), has secured property in AllianceTexas’ Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) in north Fort Worth. The new operational facility will be the first urban logistics center in Texas for TuSimple.

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Teslarati

MARCH 12, 2024

“Our autonomous commercial pilot program is intended to be a safe, reliable option for customers to explore the deployment and integration of autonomous vehicles into their operations,” said Chet Ciesielski, Navistar’s Vice President of On-Highway Business. interstates.

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

(SRI) will contract with OriginOil, the developer of a technology to transform algae into a competitor to petroleum, to plan and deploy a new Advanced Algae Center devoted to algae commercialization. We are also very excited that they intend to use our facility for their own commercial testing and to integrate with other technologies.

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Electrek

MAY 5, 2022

In addition to a small but noteworthy gross profit, the previously ill-famed commercial EV manufacturer began delivering some BEVs and has purchase orders (POs) or letters of intent (LOIs) for hundreds more. Nikola also continues to make strides in expanding its Arizona manufacturing facility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

s The project will assess various aspects of in-service truck platoons that are delivering commercial goods by a fleet operator on their common delivery routes over an extended time period. Proposed Platooning Location: California; Arizona. Only Phase 1 awardees will be eligible to submit Phase 2 proposals. Contract Amount: $499,290.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Nikola and Bosch have defined together a scalable and modular approach for the Nikola Tre and Two truck applications based upon use of multiple fuel-cell power modules utilizing the Bosch heavy-duty commercial vehicle fuel-cell stack. Nikola anticipates that the overall vehicle design will result in a range of up to approximately 500 miles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Nikola is also planning to break ground on its first commercial hydrogen station in 2021. The company’s fuel-cell-electric semi-trucks will be produced at Nikola’s Coolidge, Arizona facility beginning in 2023. Nikola has laid out a roadmap that begins deliveries of Nikola Tre battery-electric semi-trucks in the US in 2021.

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Teslarati

APRIL 28, 2022

Nikola Corporation announced that it has officially started producing and shipping its commercial serial semi-truck, the Tre, at its manufacturing facility in Coolidge, Arizona. Phase 1 of Nikola’s Coolidge, Arizona manufacturing plant provides the automaker with up to 2,500 units of production capacity every year.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

EV charging station manufacturer QCharge is actively pursuing the development of DC fast charging stations along major commercial routes from Washington State to Houston, Texas. QCharge is set to establish fast charging stations along key Interstate corridors in Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

ATLIS Motor Vehicles (ATLIS), a start-up developing an electric medium- to heavy-duty truck platform (XP platform) which will be both the base for its own Atlis XT pickup and a standalone product for third-party vehicle builders, announced the production of the AMV battery cell at its headquarters in Mesa, Arizona.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

The teams will develop novel extraction chemistries and explore practical limits of yield, extraction efficiency, and purity to recover a selective list of critical elements from a feedstock representative of commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) e-waste. —Vishnu Sundaresan, RPOD program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As per recent reports, Nikola celebrated the commercial launch of its hydrogen fuel cell trucks on September 28 at its manufacturing facility in Coolidge, Arizona. Thank you @TransportTopics for joining us in Coolidge to celebrate the commercial launch of our hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2019

Together, both companies are testing self-driving tractor trailers on a route in Arizona to determine whether the vehicles can improve service and efficiency in the UPS network. This is an extension of the ongoing commercial relationship between UPS and TuSimple in which UPS has purchased transportation services from TuSimple.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

Rare earths bearing core sample drilled at La Paz, Arizona. By cultivating new and translating existing bioengineered REE-converting bacteria and proteins, we will deliver platform biotechnologies for REE separation and purification with high commercialization potential.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2024

As a case in point, consider a new wearable mesh health-monitor that does away with the “box and a strap” architecture that is still the industry’s de facto commercial design standard. As a result of its portability, the device looks to be a compelling choice for remote health-monitoring in isolated areas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2018

Delphi Technologies PLC, a leader in vehicle propulsion technologies, has invested in PolyCharge America, Inc, a start-up established to commercialize a new capacitor technology. The company’s headquarters, engineering, and product development center are located in Tucson, Arizona. Delphi Technologies, a $4.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

The joint grant was funded by the US Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Transportation Office under the recently announced FY19 Commercial Trucks and Off-Road Applications FOA. Testing will begin on Arizona roads this year with full production expected in late 2022.

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Blink Charging

MAY 1, 2023

Blink proudly assembles state-of-the-art Level 2 home and commercial chargers in their U.S. facility in Tempe, Arizona. facility, employing more than 50 individuals in Maryland. Testing and Research Blink goes a step further and conducts the testing and configuration of their products in their 24,000 sq.

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