Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

After passenger cars and light-duty trucks, medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses are the next largest source of transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Since 2018, the State has leveraged more than $16.5 Other signatories to the memorandum of understanding include: California. Connecticut. Washington, DC. North Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If adopted, the ACC II regulation would require automobile manufacturers to increase their zero-emission sales of light-duty vehicles to 100% by 2035. Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York adopted the ACC II regulations in 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

Integrated LED lighting enables the system to work around the clock. Rocsys is an international venture-funded company with US operations based out of Portland, Oregon. The Rocsys robots use computer vision to navigate the plug to the socket.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Total US sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs)—battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric—have increased in recent years, but still represent only about 0.7% These incentives are in addition to a federal (nationwide) tax credit, which ranges from $2,500 to $7,500 depending on battery capacity and gross vehicle weight.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

The small electric motor and lithium ion battery provide more power and give the car a little “boost”, under heavy accelerating. The boost comes from energy that is captured during braking and stored in the battery. The Spark EV is targeted at urban and suburban commuters and will initially be sold in California and Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The Memorandum of Understanding commits both governments to work together on developing their respective regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles, such as those currently in effect in Canada, California and the 13 US states that have adopted California’s standards.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

all have battery-electric vehicles in production. But they view the lack of charging infrastructure as a major bottleneck to widespread adoption, noting that most charging-infrastructure pushes so far have focused on light-duty passenger vehicles. capable of serving heavy-duty trucks, The New York Times notes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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Green Car Congress

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. Tags: Batteries. million and 136.0

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Fiat stopped selling the Cinquecento, or 500e, in the United States (in reality California and Oregon only) in 2019. A big difference in the last generation 500e and the new model is the 2024 is built on a dedicated EV platform, not merely a battery and motor dropped into the gasoline version. 2024 Fiat 500e EV.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

million through the Advanced Vehicle Power Technology Alliance to support projects specifically focused on advanced high-voltage electrolytes for batteries and advanced engine and powertrain technologies to improve vehicle fuel efficiency. Drive Oregon. The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 Plug In America.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We’ll be promoting e-bikes and other Light EVs along with The Clean Machine , a local bike shop.” Also on hand will be TEVA of NC members who have developed a Light EV tech workshop where Smith teaches bicycle mechanics how to become certified e-bike mechanics. So many people ride bikes here, it’s really a bicycle town,” he said.

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Green Car Congress

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. Dayton Power & Light Company. Duke Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Annual light duty PEV Sales, top 5 states, 2013-2022. Next will be Northern California with 9.7% (although for California as a whole, the rate will be only 6.0%) and then Oregon with 5.8%. Canada Electric (Battery) Forecasts Hybrids Plug-ins' Source: Navigant. Click to enlarge. between 2013 and 2022. Overall, 2.4%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be distributed in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, but customers in any of the other states can custom order the vehicle at their local Hyundai dealer. The lithium-ion polymer battery pack capacity is 1.76 of cargo volume.

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

Delivery vans, commercial-use vans, and pickup trucks are considered light-duty vehicles. Electric school buses equipped with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology also have tremendous potential as “batteries on wheels” that can store electricity and provide it to the grid or to buildings when needed. Battery weight also comes into play.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In addition to California, the ZEV states are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. Oregon: $1.3 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. New York: $7.9 New Jersey: $4.6 Massachusetts: $2.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

The San Jose area had the highest share at 10%, followed by other California areas (4% to 6%) and markets in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington (2% to 4%). Overall, the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric in these 50 areas is 1.2%, about 3 times the proportion in the rest of the United States.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was privileged to work with Elaine Borseth in the very active San Diego EAA chapter, EV Association of San Diego , as well as on the Board of the EAA, and was well aware of her legacy of long road trips, both across the country, and more recently, along the Oregon Coast. Elaine was the one who inspired me to venture out on my own.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MAY 1, 2007

Since I'm still waiting on parts from ElectroAuto, I decided to take the plunge and do some extensive research on Lead-Acid battery technology. The 914 AC kit uses 8V golf cart batteries and I'm wondering if different batteries like Hawkers or Optima Yellow-Top batteries would be better.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Hyundai will initially offer the Sonata Plug-in Hybrid in the ZEV states—California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—in 2015. Hyundai expects California and Oregon to be the top markets and areas of focus.) Battery charge mode. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Navigant’s analysis indicates that only buyers in California and Oregon will purchase sufficient numbers of vehicles in order to meet the ZEV requirement in 2018 and 2019. In broader context, battery prices have come down providing competitive price points for e-motorcycles, and Tesla has proven that EVs can be lust-worthy vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Eight partnering states released their Multi-State ZEV Action Plan as the first promised milestone for the bi-coastal collaboration to pave the way for increasingly large numbers of zero emission vehicles: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Also, its liquid cooled battery pack, developed with tailored A123 Systems Li-ion iron phosphate cells and GM controls, can handle multiple DC fast charges daily without impact on battery life. We don’t need as much battery. Driving on hills, L does a splendid job of re-topping the battery.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2016

In 2013, the Governors of eight of the ZEV states (including California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to place 3.3 Earlier post.). This year, ARB will determine if the ZEV regulation is on track out to 2025.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Starting well-equipped from $68,575, which is in line with prices for loaded, gasoline-powered light-duty pickups, the Rivian is a relative powerhouse of design, innovation and all-around capability. But for proof, the R1T successfully completed the TransAmerica Trail, a roughly 5,000-mile gauntlet from North Carolina to the Oregon coast.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Charged : You recently wrote, “Commercial vehicle battery packs are tough to source.” Is the supply of battery packs going to be a bottleneck? Rustam Kocher: I think it’s going to be an issue for any company that has a large battery pack. It’s easier to sell to the light-duty market. It’s less time and effort.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Its goal was and is to reduce the environmental impact of light-duty vehicles through the gradual introduction of ZEVs into the California fleet. The intent was to accelerate the commercialization of electric (and other advanced) technology, but batteries and fuel cells did not advance as fast as regulators hoped. by about 1.9%.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

AUGUST 22, 2009

Fortunately, two wonderful people helped me push the car to a near by parking space across some local light rail tracks (we had to dodge the MAX light rail, yikes!). Other interesting news: I'm resigning as chairperson of the local Oregon Electric Vehicle Association. I let the car sit there until 10pm to cool off.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

AUGUST 1, 2007

It turns out that if the voltage coming from my batteries fell into the 136 to 149 volt range (EE2NoAccelBat + EE2AccelRamp = 149), then the controller would linearly limit the power going into the motor down to zero when the voltage reached 136. The Oregon Electric Vehicle meeting is tomorrow and EV awareness day is August 11th.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

For the past few years, our company has actually been warning that that freedom of mobility is now actually being threatened particularly in light of four megatrends that are affecting the future of transportation. —Mark Fields. Those four megatrends are: Urbanization and exploding urban populations. It runs through November.

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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. For both light duty and buses, AMPLY found Atlanta’s DPGe for fleet vehicles to be $1.85.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 12, 2022

The BZ4X will be sold throughout the world, but in America it will be first offered (April 2022) in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. The 2023 BZ4X has either one or two electric motors powered by a 355-volt lithium-ion battery.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Currently, the Model Y from Gigafactory Texas is being produced with Tesla’s newest 4680 battery cells and new structural battery pack, has not gained its Certificate of Conformity, a document needed for a vehicle to be introduced into commerce. The Battery Pack likely required the EPA to certify the Model Y once again.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Scheduled to go on sale in the third quarter of 2014, the Soul EV will be Kia’s first battery-electric car sold in the US. The Soul EV is equipped with a 27kWh, air-cooled, 200 Wh/kg Li-ion polymer battery pack located beneath the floor. Additional cross bracing beneath the low-mounted battery contributes to a 5.9%

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