Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

A white paper by AMPLY Power, a company providing fleet charging as a service, finds that 25 of America’s largest metropolitan areas could save an average of 37% on fuel costs by electrifying their bus and light-duty vehicle fleets. AMPLY developed an interactive map to compare gas and electric fleet fueling costs.

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San Francisco Charging Fuel Fleet 247

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” Louis; Seattle; and Washington, DC. per rental to fund certified offset projects through TerraPass.

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St. Louis Fleet Hybrid San Francisco 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds. Of that, $26.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2012

The coating, developed by MDS Coating Technologies Corporation (MCT), and tested by researchers at NETL, protects the compressor blades of commercial aviation and industrial gas-turbine engines from erosion—saving fuel, cutting carbon emissions, reducing operational costs, and extending part life. Source: MCT. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Atlanta Maintenance Commercial 250

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

BP will acquire the upstream portion of Clean Energy’s renewable natural gas business and sign a long-term supply contract with Clean Energy to support the firm’s continuing downstream renewable natural gas business. Renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel—biomethane—is produced entirely from organic waste.

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Clean Cleaning Renewable Gas 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

UPS plans to deploy 50 plug-in electric delivery trucks that will be comparable in acquisition cost to conventional-fueled trucks without any subsidies—an industry first that would breaki a key barrier to large scale adoption of electric fleets. —Carlton Rose, President, Global Fleet Maintenance and Engineering for UPS.

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Cost Of Alternative Fuels Gasoline-Electric Los Angeles 223

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project. This project includes a cost-benefit analysis of a large-scale conversion of a school bus fleet to hydraulic hybrid powertrains designed to recover lost braking energy. —Michael Leamy.

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Georgia Conversion Ford Hybrid 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2015

Florida-based truckload carrier Raven Transport is expanding its clean-burning natural gas fleet with 115 Peterbilt Model 579s, equipped with sleepers and powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to haul goods for a leading consumer packaged goods company. The fleet will also fuel at Clean Energy’s existing Albany, Ga.;

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Clean Cleaning Jacksonville Transportation 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

The combined fleets are largely complementary, with limited overlap in their respective operating regions. Mirant owns or leases more than 10,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity; the fleet uses coal, natural gas and oil. These generating assets use natural gas, oil and coal. RRI Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

increase to UPS’ current industry-leading alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet of 5,088 vehicles worldwide. To support the purchase and planned deployment of the 1,400 new CNG vehicles, UPS plans to build 15 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations. billion km) in this fleet by the end of 2017. Doraville, Ga.;

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Fuel Building Alternative Fuels Oklahoma 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2010

Air Products is a subcontractor on this project to the Center for Transportation & the Environment (CTE) in Atlanta, Ga. The hydrogen will be produced from anaerobic digester gas from a wastewater treatment plant located on base. Plug Power’s technology is in 20 of the forklifts at the site.

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Hydrogen Production Atlanta Pennsylvania 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

At the APTA public transportation show in Atlanta, GILLIG LLC a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses, and Cummins Inc. Cummins currently powers the GILLIG series of Low Floor, BRT, BRTPlus, Commuter and Trolley buses with a broad portfolio of diesel, near-zero natural gas and diesel-hybrid power systems. Earlier post.).

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Batteries Battery Atlanta North America 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG. Schlosser Co.

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Clean Cleaning Kansas City Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

Coca-Cola Enterprises uses tractors as its standard bulk delivery truck for large deliveries, and plans to deploy the Kenworth hybrid tractors to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New Orleans, New York, Portland (Ore.), The Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks (rated at 33,000 lb.

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Kenworth Hybrid San Antonio Las Vegas 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The company also will test three different alternative fuels—Reclaimed Grease Fuel; B20 biodiesel; and liquefied natural gas—in its heavy-duty trucks. This technology could help Wal-Mart increase its fleet efficiency by up to 25%. This technology could help Wal-Mart increase its fleet efficiency by up to seven percent.

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Peterbilt Eaton Hybrid Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

BorgWarner, is showcasing its range of combustion, hybrid and electric technologies at the North American Commercial Vehicle (NACV) Show in Atlanta, Georgia. A forecast by Knibb, Gormezano and Partners (KGP), cited by BorgWarner, predicts the hybrid and electric commercial vehicle market will experience a 32.9%

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Cummins will reveal electrified power technology for transit bus applications at the APTA public transportation show opening in Atlanta on 9 October. This allows transit authorities to continue using the same preferred bus models and retain fleet commonality.

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Range Batteries Battery Electric 191

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

The project also supports RTC’s efforts to transition its aging diesel bus fleet to zero emission vehicles to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in an area where ozone levels currently exceed air quality targets. Together, these awards account for 40% of the total program amount for this fiscal year.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 17, 2025

Organized by the Smart Grid Observer, the 6th EV Charging Infrastructure Summit – North America, East, January 28-29, 2025, in Atlanta will convene top industry experts and utility professionals to examine how growing EV adoption rates will impact the network, and what investments are needed to ensure grid stability and benefit.

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Plug-in Charging Plug Atlanta 98

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Allison Transmission recently introduced its first nine-speed model at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta. With this new transmission, Allison continues to demonstrate its commitment to help achieve standards regarding fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Available in three packages, FuelSense 2.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Also, seven regional electric utility partners are joining Ford and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to conduct real-world tests on an expanding fleet of Ford Escape PHEVs. Ford’s current demonstration fleet of Escape plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) is using JCS Li-ion packs. Consolidated Edison of New York.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2022

.” The company’s position regarding EVs was only solidified in 2021, as Elkann stated during the Ferrari Q2 Earnings Call that executives welcomed regulations that would restrict the widespread production of gas-powered engines. The new plant will be located near Atlanta, Georgia. Rivian will break ground on its second U.S.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. EVs are ten times less likely to catch fire than conventional gas cars. Eventually, Zero Emission Day turned into a full-blown movement and got its own date: September 21st. Refrain from putting anyone in harm’s way. They’re safer.

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Emissions Nashville Coal Electric 123

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The introduction of the all-new 2023 GV70 EV (or Electrified GV70 in Genesis talk to distinguish it from the gas-powered GV70) follows stablemates G80 EV and GV60 EV , giving the seven-year-old company a compact and midsize EV SUV, along with a midsize sedan powered only by electricity. miles per kilowatt-hour (kWh). Story by John Faulkner.

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All-Electric SUV Gasoline-Electric Alabama 98

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Oshkosh USPS electric mail carrier (Source: Oshkosh) USPS is finally rolling out its much-anticipated Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDVs), and the first fleet of them to go into service in Atlanta, Georgia is earning rave reviews from delivery drivers according to an AP report.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Pacific Gas & Electric/Bay Area Air Quality Management District, "Sparky," by EnergyCS, July 2006 (San Francisco County, CA) Contact sxtg@. by Hymotion, July 2007 (Sun Prairie, WI), contact Kelly Simonsen ( full-size photo ) San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007. 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The team also compared the effects of these local planning efforts to the reduction in emissions that would occur under the Obama administration’s plan to increase the fuel efficiency of the automobile fleet to 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2027.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Trump also froze fines for fleet fuel-economy violators , after his administration lost a court battle to roll the fine amounts back—another move that indirectly likely suppressed the EV market. should design federal policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.” There’s been no about-face to a clean-energy economy.

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