Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2019

UPS’ venture capital arm, UPS Ventures, has made a minority investment in autonomous driving company TuSimple ( earlier post ). 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.

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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.

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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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Antenna technology company Airgain, Inc. The company joins leading telecommunications and automotive companies with the aim of accelerating the penetration of the connected and autonomous car and intelligent fleet management. has become a member of the 5G Automotive Association ( 5GAA ).

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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. Currently, the company has six active facilities processing all battery chemistries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2023

The company has completed production of 200 demonstration tires and is pursuing joint evaluation with automakers for use on the next generation of electrified SUVs and crossovers (CUVs). The company is targeting commercial production of guayule-derived natural rubber by the end of the decade.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

London Taxi Company (LTC) has relaunched as London EV Company (LEVC), marking the next stage in the company’s transformation. Underpinned by an investment totalling £325 million (US$420 million), LEVC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, intends to be the urban commercial vehicle provider of choice for cities around the world.

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Green Car Congress

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

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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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

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.

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Teslarati

MARCH 12, 2024

A subsidiary of Volkswagen-owned Traton, Navistar, has officially launched an autonomous trucking pilot program, in partnership with technology company Plus. The company says Internation trucks featuring SuperDrive by Plus are already being validated in certain parts of Texas, and the companies expect customer pilots to begin within a year.

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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. The celebration was shared with 900 customers, suppliers, and supporters of the company. So far, Nikola has 223 non-binding orders from 23 customers, including J.B.

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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 6, 2016

Any company which produces, uses and/or invests in fuels that are at least 50% less carbon intensive than conventional fossil fuels can join below50. Companies must publicly commit to the campaign, show evidence that supports their claim, and disclose their progress towards achieving this goal.

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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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DECEMBER 25, 2020

After considerable collaboration and review, both companies determined that the combination of the various new technologies and design concepts would result in longer than expected development time, and unexpected costs. Nikola is also planning to break ground on its first commercial hydrogen station in 2021.

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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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Blink Charging

MAY 1, 2023

The White House recently implemented rules for various federal funding opportunities requiring companies to be Buy America compliant. Investing in our national infrastructure, as well as companies in the U.S., Blink is proud to be a Buy America-compliant EV charging company and follow the standards set by the federal government.

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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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AUGUST 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy has awarded Nikola Motor Company a $1.7-million 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.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

The company last year pushed back its efforts to develop a commercial autonomous trucking technology soon after autonomous driving software came under strong regulatory scrutiny. The company also aims to operate in Austin, Texas. The utilities commission did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Voltera Power announced a significant, $150 million expansion of its commercial electric vehicle charging infrastructure, with plans to double its number of managed charging depots in 2024. Voltera is best known for its clever managed charging depots, which the company builds, owns, and operates for the benefit of local electric fleets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy will award $15 million to the Arizona State University-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP 3 ) for its Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production opportunity. Testbed facilities for the partnership are physically located in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Ohio and Georgia.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2024

Waymo, the self-driving startup owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has been approved by a California agency to expand operations to Los Angeles, after previously only serving the city of San Francisco within the state. In both states, the company operates Jaguar I-Pace vehicles equipped with several sensors to perform driverless rides.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 17, 2023

General Motors’ Cruise may be one of the first companies in the world to field driverless vehicles as part of a commercial endeavor. A spokesperson for Cruise said the company communicates regularly with NHTSA and "has consistently cooperated with each of NHTSA's requests for information."

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Yulex Corporation, an agricultural biomaterials company, has opened a Seed & Genetics Center focused on plant breeding, molecular genetics and development of agronomic best practices to support the global cultivation of sustainable guayule plantations for medical, consumer, industrial and bioenergy applications.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The company’s better-than-expected quarter was fueled by a continuance of production output and deliveries of the Tre battery-electric semi-truck, along with numerous developments in the company’s planned buildout of hydrogen dispensing stations. Nikola reported revenues for Q3 at $24.2 considerably. in Europe.”. “We

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has completed tire builds using rubber derived from guayule plants and new guayule related materials. These studies will help determine optimum conditions under which farmers can grow guayule crops to produce quantities sufficient for commercial use. Biomass Tires'

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 15, 2023

ElectraMeccanica CEO Susan Docherty mentioned the “complementary” Eu and North American operations of the 2 companies will place the blended corporate for expansion. This is the right time and Tevva is the right partner with which to pivot from consumer vehicles to commercial vehicles,” she mentioned in a shed.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Tesla and leading renewable energy company Arevon have signed a new master supply agreement that will supply the Scottsdale, Arizona-based entity with another 2 GW/6 GWh supply of Tesla Megapacks for an ongoing energy storage operation in California.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 10, 2022

FedEx is testing the Ford E-Transit as a delivery vehicle for its SameDay City delivery service, the company announced. FedEx said it is testing the vehicles in nine markets: Chandler, Arizona, Newark, California, Boca Raton, Clearwater, and Plantation, Florida, Chicago, Illinois, Madison Heights, Michigan, and Allen, and Frisco, Texas.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Outside of California, the device has been approved for use by commercial fleet vehicles in Michigan, Arizona, and Texas, and 10 additional U.S. per month for 48 months; a hard-wired version for commercial vehicles sells for $24.95 states will introduce the gadgets this year, and his company is “in conversation” with 10 more.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Nel ASA has been awarded a contract for delivery of 448 electrolyzers and associated fueling equipment to Nikola Motor Company (Nikola) as part of Nikola’s development of a hydrogen station infrastructure in the US for truck and passenger vehicles. The compact design is a turnkey solution, with an output pressure of 200 bar.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2016

Shell Oil Company has signed an agreement with Ryder System for 15 liquefied natural gas (LNG) heavy-duty vehicles supporting oil and gas logistics operations in Lafayette, La. The Company operates Liquefied to Compressed Natural Gas (LCNG) fuel stations at its Fontana and Orange, Calif., and Houston, Texas. service locations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

The trucks will be deployed in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas later this year. a Cincinnati-based company, was announced by Carlton Rose, UPS Global Fleet Maintenance and Engineering president at the annual Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach, Calif. Earlier post.)

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