The Port of San Diego just deployed one of the largest electric forklifts in the US
Electrek
MARCH 6, 2024
The Port of San Diego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service.
Endera delivers electric shuttles to ACE Parking for San Diego Airport; Lightning Systems drivetrain
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Endera, a technology company specializing in commercial electric vehicles, charging stations and software solutions, delivered 18 all-electric passenger shuttles to ACE Parking, for use at the San Diego International Airport.
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The Port of San Diego just deployed one of the largest electric forklifts in the US
Baua Electric
MARCH 6, 2024
Photo: SSA Marine The Port of San Diego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service. Leading the charge at the Port of San Diego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal is a 55,000-pound capacity Wiggins Yard eBull battery electric forklift. Get started here. –
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car2go pulls plug on car-sharing service in San Diego, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Daimler’s car-sharing service car2go is suspending its operations in San Diego, California and in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. In San Diego, car2go faced a lack of use, the company said. Paul, Minnesota. In the Twin Cities, the issue is the high state car rental taxation rates.
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San Diego region blackout and Cal ISO Outlook chart
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
On Thursday afternoon, the San Diego, California region lost both major grid connections, resulting in loss of power for some 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas and Electric, plus some consumers in Arizona and Mexico. Click to enlarge.
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car2go launches North America’s first all-electric carsharing network in San Diego
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, and the City of San Diego officially launched North America’s first all-electric carsharing network. car2go began deploying 300 smart fortwo electric drive vehicles Friday in San Diego, which are now in service and available for use. car2go N.A.,
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Shell Starship 3.0 to use Cummins X15N natural gas engine running on RNG
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2023
The Starship initiative, launched in 2018, is intended to demonstrate how a Class 8 truck’s energy usage can be reduced by harnessing currently available energy-efficient technologies and lubricants. will capitalize on some of the latest available technology, including being powered by renewable natural gas. Shell Starship 3.0
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Oberon announces commercial availability of new rDME/propane blend
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2022
Oberon Fuels announced commercial availability of a blend of propane and Oberon’s renewable DME (dimethyl ether). the third-largest propane supplier in the US, is the first company to make this more sustainable blended product available to its customers across Southern California. Oberon partner Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,
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Ford and Uber team up to make EV ride-sharing more available
Teslarati
JUNE 1, 2023
Ford Drive will help offer flexible leasing options to rideshare drivers in San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles that will range between one and four months. The post Ford and Uber team up to make EV ride-sharing more available appeared first on TESLARATI.
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San Diego MTS Board approves two major CNG bus procurements with combined value of up to $343.4 million
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 21, 2012
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Board of Directors recently voted to approve two major bus procurements: up to 350 Gillig 40-foot low-floor CNG buses and up to 165 New Flyer 60-foot low-floor articulated CNG buses through 2017. All future purchases are subject to funding availability.
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Tesla Cybertruck takes on other electric pickups in coast-to-coast race
Teslarati
MARCH 25, 2024
The trip is set to go from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to Dog Beach in San Diego, California, featuring four different groups taking the Tesla Cybertruck, the Chevy Silverado EV, the Rivian R1T and the Ford F-150 Lightning.
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DOE: all-electric vehicles have the lowest estimated average annual fuel cost of all light-duty vehicles
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Conventional gasoline vehicles for MY 2019 have estimated annual fuel costs ranging from $1,000 to $4,100—the widest range, with the most vehicle models available. per gallon currently in the San Diego region, and EV charging rates (SDG&E) ranging from $0.09/kWh All annual vehicle fuel costs are rounded to the nearest $50.
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EVmatch and CEC Providing Grants for Free EV Charging Stations at Multi-Family Properties, Apply by September 15th
EV Match
AUGUST 30, 2021
EVmatch will use the funding to install 120 publicly available Level 2 EV charging stations – currently the most affordable charging option available – with EVmatch’s unique reservation-based sharing software at multi-family properties throughout Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties. What Does The Grant Cover?
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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Wintriss Engineering, based in San Diego, makes smart cameras for sports imaging such as tracking golf balls and inspecting paper, textiles, and plastics. The San Diego–based nonprofit after-school program teaches coding in Java and Python to students in Grades 5 to 12.
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UCSD team develops new disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging, safer lithium-ion batteries
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego, with their colleagues at other institutions, have developed a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles. Haodong Liu said the UC San Diego team decided to test the material as an anode based on a hunch. —Liu et al.
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California Assemblymembers introduce bill phasing out gasoline-fueled small off-road engines
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2021
California Assemblymembers Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE), which are primarily used in lawn and garden equipment, including leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and other outdoor power equipment.
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Maven deploying its first all-electric shared-use fleet in Austin; 20 Chevy Bolts
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2018
Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Maven Gig vehicles are available for flat weekly rates that include the car, unlimited miles, insurance (minus deductibles) and maintenance.
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NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025. UC San Diego is building on experience from NODES, a three-year, $2.88 million grant from ARPA-E, led by Sonia Martinez, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, who is also the Co-PI on DERConnect.
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CA targets off-road equipment for GHG reductions with $44M CORE voucher project
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 28, 2020
The California Air Resources Board will launch its Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project ( CORE ) at the Port of San Diego on 31 January. Additional funding is available for facilities that deploy clean technology in communities overburdened by pollution and for infrastructure connections.
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Plug-in readiness reports show wide difference between California regions
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2013
The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) released two reports assessing the readiness of two different areas of California—the San Diego and the Central Valley regions—for the widespread use of electric vehicles. The reports show a wide difference in preparedness between the two.
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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center adds four new projects to latest five-year research phase
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 24, 2022
CSRC will continue to collaborate with the University of Virginia, University of Michigan Medical School, University of California San Diego, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Iowa State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison through these new projects.
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Antenna company Airgain joins 5G Automotive Association
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2017
The association is developing, testing and promoting communications solutions, supporting standardization and accelerating commercial availability and global market penetration.
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Electrify America acquiring 30 Envision solar-powered EV charging stations for rural California
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Electrify America is sourcing the chargers from Envision Solar, a San Diego-based sustainable technology company. Deployment takes only minutes, and the chargers can fit easily inside a standard parking spot, preserving available parking. Each standalone station is equipped with a 4.28-kilowatt
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Final installment of coast-to-coast electric pickup race goes online
Teslarati
APRIL 9, 2024
A coast-to-coast race between four electric pickups concluded a few weeks ago, and now the final installment has become available online.
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Pearson Fuels opening 13 E85 fueling sites in SoCal
Green Car Congress
APRIL 15, 2015
Pearson Fuels of San Diego, CA and G&M Oil Company of Huntington Beach, CA will open 13 E85 fueling sites in Southern California in San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. We are very proud to make this announcement.
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U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2021
For every one million gallons of renewable propane that U-Haul makes available, it has the global effect of eliminating 5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, according to stats the Western Propane Gas Association shared in 2020. CARBOB gasoline has a CI of 100.82 gCO 2 /MJ, and diesel 100.45
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UCSD/Sapphire team shows marine algae can be engineered to perform as well as fresh water algae to produce enzymes and biofuels; removing the constraint of fresh water
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Researchers from UC San Diego and Sapphire Energy, Inc. The UC San Diego study suggests that algal biofuels can be produced in the ocean or in the brackish water of tidelands or even on agricultural land on which crops can no longer be grown because of high salt content in the soil. —Stephen Mayfield.
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The ICCT: Nearly half of the world’s EVs are in 25 cities; China leads the way
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The top 25 electric vehicle markets have, on average, about 24 times the available charging per capita as elsewhere. However, the report notes, charging availability varies greatly among leading markets. Cumulative electric vehicle sales and 2017 sales shares in electric vehicle capital cities. Source: The ICCT.
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California Air Resources Board makes more than $100M available to clean up big rigs
Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2011
million in grant funds available); Imperial County Air Pollution Control District ($3 million); Sacramento Metro Air Quality Management District ($9.8 million); San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District ($44.7 million); San Diego Air Pollution Control District ($6.5 million); and. million).
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RIZON begins US electric truck deliveries – Charged EVs
Baua Electric
APRIL 18, 2024
Available configurations include box trucks, flatbeds, stake beds, reefers and other body types. Other deliveries were made to Goodwill Industries of San Diego County, which is integrating an e18L RIZON dry van box truck into its fleet, and Diamond Environmental, which will use four e18L RIZON trucks to deliver and service portable restrooms.
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Tesla-Hertz partnership expands to sixteen new cities
Teslarati
JULY 11, 2022
Tesla’s partnership with Hertz has expanded to sixteen new cities, including Boston, Las Vegas, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Diego, among many others. Now, sixteen new cities are being added to the company’s locations that have Teslas available for rent : Albuquerque, New Mexico. San Diego, California.
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ChargePoint ranks US metro areas for EV friendliness; SF Bay Area still on top
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2015
The San Francisco Bay Area (including San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose) led the nation, followed by Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego and Honolulu. San Francisco Bay Area, CA. San Francisco Bay Area, CA. San Diego, CA. San Diego, CA. Top 10 EV friendly metro areas.
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Powering up apartment dwellers across the Golden State with 120 new EV chargers
EV Match
JULY 15, 2021
EVmatch will use the funding to install 120 publicly available Level 2 EV charging stations – currently the most affordable charging option available – with EVmatch’s unique reservation-based sharing software at apartment buildings throughout Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties. The Game Plan and Timeline.
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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access
Electric Auto Association
OCTOBER 12, 2021
EVs must be made available to all, regardless of economic standing.”. National Drive Electric Week at the San Diego LBGT Community Center. EAA Vice President Elaine Borseth spoke at the National Drive Electric Week event at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. This is not just about cars.
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IEEE WIE Conference Will Explore the Future of Work
Cars That Think
JANUARY 5, 2022
The in-person events are to take place at the San Diego Convention Center. All in-person sessions will be recorded and made available to virtual attendees at a later date. Talks from last year’s conference are still available on IEEE.TV. We hope to see you virtually or in San Diego.
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DOE selects 4 more algae technology projects for up to $8.8M in funding; > $16M total
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Technical targets for the FOA include both demonstrable improvements in cultivation performance as well as in toolkit availability. University of California, San Diego.
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PG&E and Tesla launch virtual power plant pilot
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2022
The purpose of the ELRP pilot is to offer a new tool for the electric grid operators and utilities for reducing energy consumption during a grid emergency to reduce the risk of electricity outages when the available electricity supply is not sufficient to satisfy the anticipated electricity demand.
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Mercedez-Benz gets approval for autonomous driving tech beforeTesla FSD in CA
Teslarati
JUNE 8, 2023
The German automaker plans to make Drive Pilot available for 2024 S-Class and EQS sedan vehicles in the United States. With California’s approval, Drive Pilot is allowed on highways in the Bay Area, Central Valley, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego. Vehicles using Drive Pilot may not exceed 40 miles per hour either.
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California ARB directs additional clean vehicle rebates to lower-income families
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is making additional clean vehicle rebates available for lower-income consumers. An additional $2,500 rebate is available to low- and moderate-income households at or below 400% of the federal poverty level. That allocation was exhausted on 5 February 2021.
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New Flyer unveils Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus; first to offer two fuel-cell-electric models eligible for federal funding
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2019
With the addition of the Xcelsior CHARGE H2, New Flyer offers the most diverse lineup of commercially available zero-emission transit buses in North America, and remains the only North American manufacturer to provide all three types of ZEB propulsion systems: trolley-electric, all battery-electric, and fuel-cell-electric.
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Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
NRG will pay to install a minimum of 200 fast charging “Freedom Stations”—110 in the Los Angeles Basin; 55 in the San Francisco Bay Area; 15 in the San Joaquin Valley; and 20 in San Diego County—that will be available for use by anyone with an electric vehicle for a minimum five year period.
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Delta Air Lines signs 75 MGPY for 7 years SAF deal with Gevo; oneworld Alliance members plan to buy 200 MGPY
Green Car Congress
MARCH 24, 2022
SAF is a critically important lever we have available today to help our industry reduce the lifecycle carbon emissions from aviation fuel. The agreement replaces the existing agreement signed with Delta in 2019 to purchase 10 million gallons per year and bolsters Delta’s commitment to incorporating SAF into its operations.
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Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2016
The California Energy Commission approved nearly $9 million in grants for the installation of DC fast chargers along major state freeways and highways to allow electric vehicle drivers to travel from San Diego to the Oregon border without worrying about running out of energy. The grants went to four companies—Chargepoint Inc.;
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2013
The new 20 kW multistandard station offers CCS, CHAdeMO and fast AC charging functionality and is available in configurations with one, two or three outlets. Its 20 kW design allows for quick and easy installation on widely available 3 x 32A low-cost grid connections.
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