Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

The Volkswagen unified cell concept refers to a prismatic cell format adaptable to various chemistry mixes available today or market-ready at a later point in time. By 2030, the Volkswagen Group will also have system capabilities for autonomous shuttle fleets. This is where the new “unified cell” plays a central role.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2019

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission drivetrains for commercial fleets, announced new battery-electric powertrain options for the Ford F-59 Model to support its customers with delivery and food truck applications. This powertrain is the fifth powertrain now available in the Lightning product line.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Electrify America plans to install 30 electric fleet-dedicated chargers paired with battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the Port of Long Beach, California, as part of Electrify America’s $25-million “Green City” investment in the region at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. The methanol fleet test is a collaboration between Geely, CRI and Brimborg, a local dealership and automotive service provider. Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Chaparral can autonomously pick up 300-500 lbs of cargo and deliver it by air up to 300 miles, a capability that pushes beyond the limited payload capabilities of delivery drones and the airport infrastructure required of piloted air cargo options available today.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Lightning Systems designs and manufacturers all-electric powertrains for commercial fleets: from Class 3 Ford Transit vans to Class 6 work trucks and Class 7 and 8 city buses. All Lightning products are available today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

specializes in developing full-stack self-driving technology to enable large scale autonomous commercial fleets. trillion metric ton-kilometers of freight are moved by a fleet of more than 5 million heavy-duty trucks and more than 14 million light- and medium-duty trucks. Silicon Valley-based Plus.ai

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2010

Natural gas hybrids will use similar electric-drive technology to gasoline-powered hybrid vehicles available today, only natural gas will be the power source rather than gasoline. Encouraging fleet owners of CNG fueling stations to expand their installations to include retail access to new NGV car owners.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

For example, GM plans 19 different battery and drive unit configurations initially, compared with 550 internal combustion powertrain combinations available today. New Sources of Revenue: By vertically integrating the manufacture of battery cells, the company can reach beyond its own fleet and license technology to others.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We are now delivering powertrains for over $25 million in orders from major fleets, propelling Lightning Systems to the position of the established premium provider of a full range of platforms for commercial vehicle fleets. All Lightning products are available today.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Using this approach, they found that converting a fleet of cars from gasoline to CNG would result in decades of more rapid climate change because of greater radiative forcing in the early years after the conversion. This would eventually be offset by a modest benefit. CNG vehicles fare even worse in comparison to heavy-duty diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO or renewable diesel), which is already commercially available today, reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 90%. DB Cargo also uses HVO in other locomotives in its fleet. With synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard, CO 2 emissions can be reduced by up to 100% compared to fossil diesel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

Vista LiDAR samples are available today for Cepton’s automotive partners to evaluate in their self-driving fleets. Built on Cepton’s patented micro-motion technology (MMT) platform, Vista has no rotational or frictional parts, consisting only of high-maturity automotive components for expedited automotive grade certification.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The collaboration between Efficient Drivetrains and Shaanxi Automotive to capture the construction industry marks the third successful initiative for the two companies, with PHEV mass transit (Class-6 and 7 city buses) and Class-8 port truck offerings available today as part of previous engagements.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Electric trucks are clean, cheaper to run and available today. The EU needs to set ambitious targets for the roll-out of infrastructure and let Europe’s truck fleet go emissions free. Currently €100 billion is spent on road infrastructure every year in the EU. —Lucien Mathieu.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

Propel will work with community partners CALSTART and East Bay Clean Cities to educate consumers and fleets on the wide spread benefits of low carbon, alternative fuels available today and those next generation fuels coming in the future.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 30, 2023

This comprehensive study and guide offer school districts and others an overview of the electric school bus market and a catalog that presents electric school bus models available today with detailed vehicle specifications.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

EPA’s analysis shows manufacturers can comply with the final standards with modest increases in the numbers of electric vehicles entering the fleet. As the GHG standards get stronger over four years, sales of EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles will grow from about 7% market share in MY 2023 to about 17% in MY 2026, the agency projects.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

The Envoy fleet will feature 142 vehicles spread in pairs across 71 locations. To support powering the fleets, Electrify America will also install charging stations with ultra-fast chargers to power each service. Vehicles can be reserved, picked up and returned to the same location. Each car will have a dedicated Level 2 EV charger.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

This draws upon CARMERA’s millions of miles of driving video collected, structured and enriched through safety monitoring partnerships with professional fleets in other complex environments like New York City. TRI-AD / CARMERA mapmaking from vehicle cameras in downtown Tokyo.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

They represent a harmonized approach that will allow industry to build a single national fleet that will satisfy both the GHG requirements under the CAA and CAFE requirements under EPCA/EISA. The proposed standards for both agencies begin with the 2012 model year, with standards increasing in stringency through model year 2016.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

The global natural gas vehicle fleet has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, but still represents less than 1% of global transport fuel consumption. The global fleet of NGVs consists largely of passenger cars/LDVs, although there are some regional differences. Click to enlarge. gas sources, such as biogas or bio-synthetic gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2015

gallons per minute models available today. The changes are in response to manufacturers who said they would not be able to supply retailers with enough 1.2 gallons per minute lavatory faucets on January 1, but have 1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

With much more precise aircraft location data than is available today, pilots will utilize more direct approaches to save fuel and emissions, and the spacing between planes can be improved to better predict arrival times. —Chad Cundiff, vice president, Crew Interface Products, Honeywell Aerospace.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Dresser-Rand believes that the patented VX Cycle is the first technology to provide a cost-effective small-scale LNG production process with capacities as low as 1,500 gallons per day—smaller than any other LNG production system commercially available today.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

AB 118 authorizes the Energy Commission to provide approximately $120 million annually over seven years to develop these new fuels and technologies, ensure that they are accessible to the public, and encourage motorists and fleet operators to purchase new advanced vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

But this goal cannot be achieved with efficiency measures and a modern fleet alone. Some of the alternative fuels available today can already help significantly reduce emissions with minor or no modifications to engines and infrastructures. Our aim is to achieve zero-emission logistics by 2050.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The electrification of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and fleet vehicles, is gaining significant momentum globally. According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

To support powering the fleets, Electrify America is installing charging stations with ultra-fast chargers to power each service. The charging stations have a range of power from 50 kilowatts (kW), which is most commonly used in today’s electric vehicles, to 150 and 350kW.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Ford’s semi-autonomous vehicle features available today include Lane Keeping Aid, Adaptive Cruise Control, Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian Detection and Active Park Assist – with Traffic Jam Assist coming.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 23, 2022

Fans of Tesla, makers of some of the best EVs available today, have an option just for them. Check them out today and find your new favorite podcast. Clean Fleet Report doesn’t have a podcast, but we’ve got the latest news to read: Acura Makes It EV Move. news story, too. Polestar 6 Supercar Revealed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

GHG levels from the MY 2016 fleet-wide average of 250 g/mi, using different technology pathways to achieve the reductions. EPA and NHTSA worked closely with the California Air Resources Board (ARB) in developing an Interim Joint Technical Assessment Report (TAR) of potential 2017-2025 scenarios. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In developing the proposed preferred alternative for the rulemaking, NHTSA also projected technology penetration and associated costs for the vehicle fleet. In the past, the baseline was the manufacturers’ confidential plans for each model year; in the new analysis, the baseline is each manufacturer’s MY 2008 fleet.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Even though most of the key fuel economy technologies are available today, additional breakthroughs and cost reductions would help, including lighter materials, advanced combustion systems and better lubricants. Although fuel-efficient technologies are commercially available, they are not yet widely enough deployed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Baidu also shares Velodyne’s vision to promote safety for autonomous vehicles on a global scale, and in particular in Baidu’s home market in China, where Baidu is already testing its fleet of autonomous vehicles.

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EV Connect

APRIL 6, 2021

EV Connect stepped into the project on an accelerated timeline and assisted in making the district’s fleet electrification process as smart, simple, seamless, and comprehensive as possible. The shift to an all-electric future is no longer in the realm of futurism, but the tools and resources are ready and available today.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

The version that Clean Fleet Report tested was the mid-range EV6 RWD “Wind” trim. It can take advantage of the most powerful fast chargers available today, and leaves rivals waiting in line at Costco. Disclosure: Clean Fleet Report is loaned free test vehicles from automakers to evaluate, typically for a week at a time.

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