Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) is leading a landmark effort along with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks across California. The project was funded with $26.98

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) approved the funding application for the consortium research project HyCET (Hydrogen Combustion Engine Trucks) led by the BMW Group. The other HyCET project partners are DEUTZ AG, DHL Freight GmbH, KEYOU GmbH, TotalEnergies Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Volvo Group.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 21, 2023

Leading truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks is setting the standard for the transition to all-electric heavy transport hauling. With one charging break along the route, Volvo’s heavy-duty electric truck impressively operates continuously for 12 hours and has a capacity of 74 tons.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

has received a second supply order from Volvo Car Corporation to manufacture its 24 kWh, lithium-ion battery pack to power Volvo’s C30 Electric car. The split-pack design (tunnel and tank) that EnerDel designed, with integration support from Volvo’s engineering team, will again be manufactured to Volvo’s exacting specifications.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

continued] The post Electrifying Construction Equipment — Volvo CE Deep Dive appeared first on CleanTechnica. We write and talk a lot here on CleanTechnica about the electric vehicle revolution, but we often focus on passenger.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 21, 2021

Porsche is entering into a joint venture with Customcells and Volvo is partnering with Norhtvolt as both companies look to lock down their future battery supplies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

With funding provided by the California Energy Commission, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) demonstrated its LX1 prototype mid-sized (20 ton) hybrid-electric wheel loader ( earlier post ), a piece of equipment widely used in the construction, refuse, and agricultural industries, that achieved a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Ford, Volvo, and Redwood Materials have created a free battery recycling program.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid with overhead conductive charging station and pantograph extended. As previously announced ( earlier post ), Volvo Buses will officially launch the new plug-in 7900 Electric Hybrid bus at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show in September. Total energy consumption is reduced by 60%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

EVs Fisker Ocean all-electric SUV will make its European debut at Mobile World Congress Vauxhall named UK’s best-selling electric LCV manufacturer Volvo & Northvolt accelerate […]. We’ve also included a few solar power stories.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) presented the HX2 autonomous, battery-electric, load carrier at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2017. Volvo CE showcased the first-generation of the prototype HX machine—HX1—at the company’s Xploration Forum in September last year. The HX2 is fundamentally different to the HX1.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America brought customers, partners, and media out to its customer center in Dublin, Virginia as part of its 2022 Electromobility Summit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2021

Chalmers University of Technology and RISE are now commencing construction of Sweden’s electromobility test center: Swedish Electric Transport Laboratory (SEEL). Through SEEL we are making use of these strengths to electrify the transport sector, reduce emissions and simultaneously increase Sweden’s competitiveness and create jobs in Sweden.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

From Electric Vehicle News Norwegian Post orders 29 Volvo electric truck, milestone order for Volvo electric trucks Hexagon Purus signs agreement with Hino Motors to supply battery packs for serial production of zero emission heavy-duty vehicles […]. Below, we have EV news from Norway, Quebec, the UK, and far beyond.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Volvo Technology of America, LLC. Federal share.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Volvo is making moves that will give it full control over its future.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 2, 2021

DeepGreen has written an open letter to various brands, such as BMW, Google, Samsung SDI, and Volvo. Before I dive in and share the open letter, I want to re-share what DeepGreen is: a deep-sea mining company that has a vision of a zero-carbon, circular economy with goals to source metals with the least environmental […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Volvo Buses and Stena Recycling subsidiary Batteryloop are collaborating on second-life applications for batteries from Volvo electric buses. After the batteries are removed from Volvo’s buses, they will be reused as energy storage units for a number of years, for example in buildings and charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America continues to lead in the deployment of sustainable Class 8 zero-tailpipe emission vehicles for the North American trucking industry with ongoing deliveries of its Volvo VNR Electric model to fleets across the country. The next-generation Volvo VNR Electric is now open for order.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 26, 2022

In good green economic news, electric battery maker SPARKZ and the United Mine Workers coal union have announced a labor-management memorandum of understanding for a planned factory in West Virginia that intends to put out-of-work coal miners back to work.

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JULY 29, 2011

million) from Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) SD Tech Fund in 17 new clean technology projects in the areas of agriculture, transportation, mining and energy. million) to a consortium led by LaCima Corp in Vancouver to develop and ultracapacitor/Li-ion battery hybrid energy storage system for electric vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From electric motorcycles to electric SUVs to electric semi trucks to hydrogen planes, below is a roundup of electric vehicle news from the past day, as well as a few other cleantech stories. Electric Cars & Motorcycles New standard range model joins MG ZS EV line-up Mercedes readies EQE and EQS electric SUVS for late […].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Volvo Trucks in North America has won an order for 110 Volvo VNR Electric trucks from the global logistics company Maersk. The deal adds to a previous order of 16 vehicles of the same model and marks the single largest commercial order to date for Volvo’s electric trucks. —Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

In conjunction with vehicle manufacturer Mack, a member of the Volvo Group, and local truck conversion specialists, Siemens is developing up to four demonstration vehicles. On normal roads without overhead lines the vehicles make use of a hybrid system which can be operated alternatively with diesel, compressed natural gas or via a battery.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

Ener1 has signed up two new customers for its Li-ion batteries: Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Toro. Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea will receive Li-ion battery packs for electric buses; the packs are similar configurations as packs currently in operation in California with AC Transit. Grid Energy Storage.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 12, 2022

The electrons keep on flowing and electric vehicle news keeps on flowing, from solid-state battery progress to portable EV charging to new electric cars. Scroll down below for more EV news that we didn’t quite get to covering in individual articles. Electric Car News Volkswagen to show the ID. Buzz at the 2022 New York […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 20, 2022

Along with those special celebrations, we have news on free electric cab rides this week, fun concept cars, Volvo customers now having access to more than 270,000 charging points in Europe, growing electric taxi sales, and more. May 20th is World Bee Day, and National Bike to Work Day. Electric Cars Renault Scenic […].

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MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The electric vehicle revolution is unstoppable. EV news flows vigorously. Below are some top news releases and headlines from the past day or so. There is also related air and environmental news on the bottom of this post. EV News Ireland — up to €25,000 for taxi drivers to buy electric vehicles Introducing the 2022 […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The past few days have included news of electric cement mixers, electric heavy-duty trucks, and various new or updated electric car models. Scroll down below, enjoy the fun stories, and let us know if there are any cool ones that we missed. Electric Car News Series production of the ENYAQ Coupé iV has started at […].

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

In addition to providing clean transportation for children, school bus electrification programs will add $6 billion to the economy and create 46,000 job years. alone, finds that its members plan to acquire more than 58,000 battery electric MHD trucks over the next five years. Battery weight also comes into play. and Europe.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 14, 2021

Recently, DeepGreen penned an open letter to BMW, Volvo, Google, and other brands about the importance of seafloor minerals and approached extraction cautiously with an exacting commitment to science-based impact analysis and environmental protection. I also interviewed DeepGreen’s CEO, Gerard Barron, via email last year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2022

Northvolt plans to build its first factory outside of Sweden.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 3, 2021

Our friends over at Transport & Environment (T&E) are concerned that the UK is taking its electric vehicle production sector for granted and not doing enough to retain its EV production leadership. According to the organization, 50% of the EVs produced in Europe were produced in the UK in 2018.

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JANUARY 28, 2008

W e've had the people in our shop go over the new energy bill with an eye for Plug Ins and electric transportation in general. DOE to provide grants for electric transportation projects such as truck stop electrification, airport ground support equipment, electric rail, etc. $95 90 million per year authorized (2008-2012).

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The transportation industry is electrifying, and greening itself in other ways as well. Below is some news of the past day from around the industry that we thought you shouldn’t miss.

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