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MARCH 3, 2023

The powertrain does not use a battery—the fuel cells drive the electric motor directly—reducing weight and cost significantly. The airplanes are converted to hydrogen using an aftermarket retrofit conversion kit, tackling the existing fleet rather than developing a brand new airplane.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Electric aviation technology company magniX and Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline, announced a partnership to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 560 kW (751 shp) all-electric motor that delivers 2,814 N·m of torque.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Lane Transit District (LTD) in Oregon has awarded New Flyer a contract for 11 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, including seven ABB depot chargers to support electric bus infrastructure development. LTD has a longstanding commitment to sustainability.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Seattle-based AeroTEC will lead aircraft conversion, flight test, and certification activities, drawing on its own extensive experience with electric aviation and expertise from across the aerospace sector.

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JUNE 27, 2023

This project will support WMATA’s plans to accelerate its transition to a 100% zero-emission bus fleet and create good paying construction jobs, which will be supported through a project labor agreement and registered apprenticeships. King County Metro Transit in Seattle, Washington, will receive $33.5

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The auxiliary power unit battery, manufactured by GS Yuasa, was the original battery delivered with the airplane on 20 December 2012. The battery was assembled in September 2012 and installed on the aircraft on 15 October 2012. The battery was assembled in September 2012 and installed on the aircraft on 15 October 2012.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. In the course of a year, the community is designed to generate as much energy as it consumes.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

King County, Washington, Executive Dow Constantine announced that King County Metro Transit will acquire 120 battery-electric buses by 2020. As part of this commitment, Metro will purchase up to 73 battery buses from Burlingame, Calif.-based Metro serves Seattle and the rest of King County. based Proterra. million to $6.6

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JANUARY 30, 2013

The examination of the damaged battery continues. Examination and testing of the exemplar battery from the JAL airplane has begun at the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center laboratories. In addition to the activities in Washington, investigators are continuing their work in Seattle and Japan.

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MARCH 30, 2012

Lithium polymer battery packs from Corvus Energy were recently installed in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat, the RotorTug RT Adriaan of KOTUG, an international maritime service provider headquartered in The Netherlands. The conversion features Corvus’ AT6500 48 volt lithium polymer battery packs. Corvus uses Dow Kokam cells.

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JULY 6, 2016

Electric vehicles were first introduced into the DriveNow fleet in summer 2013 and today, the joint venture offers electric BMW i3 vehicles in almost all of its cities. In this context, the BMW Group introduced ReachNow in Seattle in April. An average journey is between 8 and 15 kilometers and lasts 20 to 40 minutes.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Proterra delivered its 100 th battery-electric bus, destined for San Joaquin Region Transit District (RTD) in Stockton, Calif. Many of the transit agencies serving these communities have also completed third and fourth orders for Proterra buses including San Joaquin RTD, King County Metro in Seattle and Foothill Transit in Pomona, Calif.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Buses can now switch to battery power from a combustion engine, temporarily eliminating diesel emissions when they cross the threshold of a green zone. The technology allows the city to convert the fleet into part-time electric buses as an intermediate step to full electrification. Initial SF Muni Green Zone routes.

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APRIL 21, 2016

Proterra, the market leader of zero-emission, battery-electric buses in North America, announced that SEPTA, Foothill Transit and King County Metro will use their Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Grants (Low-No) ( earlier post ) to purchase 33 Catalyst electric buses and charging infrastructure.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Nissan provided a list of the top 15 markets in the US for the Nissan LEAF battery-electric vehicle. Another three are on the West Coast and in Hawaii: Seattle (4), Portland (5), and Honolulu (6). Nashville, home of Nissan Americas headquarters and the plants that assemble both LEAF and its battery. Electric (Battery) Sales'

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The vast majority of the funded projects are for battery-electric buses and infrastructure; two projects are receiving a total of $3.2 Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Fleet operators surveyed as part of the study identified that access to public charging would accelerate deployment of electric vehicles because their trucks could use public sites to support their operations. HDR completed the study. The study’s final report proposes a phased approach for electrifying the I-5 corridor.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

manufacturing plant to produce the all-electric Nissan LEAF and the lithium-ion battery packs to power them. Modification of the Smyrna manufacturing plant, which will begin later this year, includes a new battery plant and changes in the existing structure for electric-vehicle assembly. Washington DC, Seattle, Raleigh, N.C.,

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JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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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. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle.

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MARCH 25, 2018

The national tour will include scheduled stops at trade shows, school visits, and local government events throughout the country, including locations in and around Sacramento, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, to provide customers with high-touch learning events with chargE.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

This will lay all the foundations required for the full networking of our vehicle fleet and for the development of digital added-value services for our customers. Progress is also being made with the establishment of the new Development Center in Seattle.

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MARCH 5, 2009

San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. Knoxville, Las Vegas, Missoula, New Orleans, and Seattle, joining CCE’s fleet of 120 Kenworth 12-bay hybrid delivery trucks. Coca-Cola Enterprises operates the largest hybrid truck fleet in North America.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

More than 2,200 units are already in service, with an additional 850 firm orders in backlog from cities such as New York City, Seattle, Houston, Ottawa and Puerto Rico. This compliments its existing fleet of 56 Orion VII hybrids which were delivered in 2008 and the 40 units that will be delivered in 2009.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

These typically range from $1,000 to $3,000 per battery electric vehicle in most states, and they are typically about half as much for plug-in hybrid vehicles due to their lesser all-electric driving capability. Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships.

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JUNE 10, 2015

Proterra has completed the structural testing program at the Altoona Bus Research and Testing Center with its new Catalyst battery-electric bus ( earlier post ), in the process setting records for efficiency, gradeability, weight and acceleration. The full public Altoona report is available here. While conventional diesel buses average 3.86

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JULY 21, 2016

During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Expanding the EV fleet.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The electrification case assumes that the overall fraction of vehicle miles traveled by the US vehicle fleet using electricity stored in batteries is 17% for light-duty vehicles and 8% for medium-duty vehicles. Transportation electrification can lead to modest, but widespread air quality benefits.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Many fleets are going electric, but to the best of our knowledge, none are doing so on the same scale as Amazon. One site in Seattle took 18 months. Amazon recently brought a group of journalists to a warehouse in Seattle for a first-hand look at one of its charging depots. Building the trucks appears to have been the easy part.

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JUNE 29, 2015

Hydropower in Seattle will push you around for the same price. When there are 100 million EVs, figuring 60 kWh batteries, the fleet will provide 6 terawatt-hours of storage, enough to run the US (with 1,000 GW, or 1 Terawatt, of power capacity) at peak power for six hours, or the world (with 5 Terawatts of capacity ) for over an hour.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

They used data collected from GPS tracking devices in cars, as well as survey results about people’s daily driving habits and needs, including detailed data from the Seattle area and more general data from the US as a whole. Addressing the range issue through infrastructure is essential, Trancik says.

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APRIL 3, 2022

The test charging facility, which can charge up to nine coaches simultaneously, was created with an “interchangeable design” that utilizes charging infrastructure from three manufacturers—ABB, Siemens and Heliox—meaning all the major battery-electric buses will be able to successfully charge at any station.

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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. —i.e.,

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APRIL 29, 2009

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced that the City of Seattle and Nissan North America will work together to promote the development of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. Nissan has selected the Seattle-area as one of the first regions in the country to introduce a pure electric five-passenger hatchback in 2010.

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JUNE 6, 2006

Plug-in hybrid vehicles would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 miles to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle—with even greater fuel economy possible using biofuels.

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