Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) introduced a variety of green innovations to reduce CO 2 emissions and pollution in the railway sector. To help France meet its sustainability targets, Bombardier will now convert AGC hybrid trains to full battery power. The range in battery mode will be at least 80 kilometers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2019

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. Port Authority of Allegheny County: A $1,104,000 grant to replace two diesel transit buses with two new battery electric buses and install two charging stations. Allegheny County.

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2024

The Tesla Semi has been proving itself in real-world situations, with the company’s fleet of all-electric Class 8 trucks transporting over 20,000 battery packs from Gigafactory Nevada to the Fremont Factory. Every day, the Tesla Semi demonstrates that battery electric trucks can directly replace diesel trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

billion Proposition 98, $676 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and $383 million Federal Funds) one-time over five years, with a focus on communities that are most impacted, bringing the total investment to $10 billion over six years to decarbonize the transportation sector. billion ($3.5 billion General Fund, $1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Vera is controlled and monitored via a cloud-based service, and has the potential to make transportation safer, cleaner and more efficient. The driveline and battery pack are of the same type that are used in Volvo Trucks’ electric trucks. The full potential of the transport industry is yet to be seen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Proponents claim that if renewable electricity is used and CO 2 is captured from the air, then the e-gasoline and e-diesel are climate-neutral fuels that will also reduce pollution. However, said T&E, particle pollution was far from eliminated. pollution. The emissions were compared to the standard E10 EU gasoline. Full report.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a $95-million plan for critical clean transportation investments to expedite the adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and help the state reach its climate, air quality and other goals. million for ZEVs, as well as zero-emission infrastructure and related workforce development.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

Southern California Edison (SCE) has launched Charge Ready Transport , a program that aims to add charging stations for medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles at a minimum of 870 commercial sites within the utility’s 50,000 square-mile service area. —Katie Sloan, SCE director of eMobility. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The European Commission is proposing modernizing EU legislation on batteries; this would be the first initiative delivered among the actions announced in the new Circular Economy Action Plan. They promote competitive sustainability and are necessary for green transport, clean energy and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

The FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive is a defining moment for freight rail and will accelerate the industry toward low- to zero-emission locomotives. The FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive is a defining moment for freight rail and will accelerate the industry toward low- to zero-emission locomotives.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The California Air Resources Board approved a $533-million plan to fund clean car rebates, zero-emission transit and school buses, clean trucks, and other innovative, clean transportation and mobility pilot projects. billion for low-carbon transportation projects from the cap-and-trade program.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Electrify America has installed onsite, behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems (BESS) at more than 140 ultra-fast DC charging stations around the country, including more than 90 installations in California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Transport Canada has awarded a contract to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, to develop an assessment tool to examine clean technologies that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the release of other pollutants from marine vessels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Partner match: $15.4 Partner match: $45.9 Partner match: $5.8

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two new 37 tonne DAF CF Electric trucks will transport food and other products from Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution center in Magor, Wales, in partnership with logistics and international freight forwarding company FSEW. These first two trucks will replace around 65,000 diesel-fueled road miles, removing 87.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

million; Grantee: Center for Transportation and the Environment). Three battery-electric top handlers and two zero-emission yard trucks (fuel cell and battery-electric) at the Port of Long Beach (Cost $8.3 Two battery-electric high lift-capacity forklifts at the Port of Stockton (Cost: $1.2 million; Grant: $5.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The third-largest emitter globally, India has a strong dependence upon 2- and 4-stroke three-wheel vehicles powered by fossil fuels, which serve as essential last-mile transport yet contribute to the country’s air quality crisis. metric tons annually and eliminate dangerous NO x and PM tailpipe emissions that contribute to air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

During a keynote speech to the Transportation Research Board annual meeting Wednesday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy questioned the safety impact of electric vehicles. The battery pack alone weighs over 2,900 pounds—about the weight of a Honda Civic. —Shaffer et al. Shaffer et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The tractor’s hydrogen tank can hold 67 kg of hydrogen with the battery providing 72 kWh for a gross combined weight of 37,200 kg to deliver an average range of more than 450 miles per tank. This project is led by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD), which applied for the TAG funding. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2023

The tankers will transport a wide variety of liquid cargoes including renewable raw materials such as waste and residue oils and fats to Neste’s refineries. At the refineries, products such as renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will be loaded for transport.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

The performance results were similar for all four types of pollution. They found that environmental burdens associated with charging the e-scooter are small relative to the materials and manufacturing burdens of the e-scooters and the impacts associated with transporting the scooters to overnight charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The transportation sector is currently responsible for more than 40% of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions in the region, and soot and smog from cars and trucks are major contributors to lung disease and other health problems region-wide, particularly in low income communities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An open-access editorial in the journal Nature Materials observes that the porposed new regulations for the European battery industry could actually make the electrification of transport harder. For vehicle electrification, lithium-ion batteries are the key energy technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2020

The entire new fleet will be gradually introduced on the school transport networks operated by Transdev from the start of the school year in September 2020, in the Estrie and Montérégie regions of Québec. The introduction of these vehicles promises to reduce pollution by 99% compared to thermal vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

eNow has demonstrated a solar-powered zero-emissions commercial-use Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) on a truck making deliveries in an urban environment. TRUs are traditionally powered by high-polluting, small diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

The company says that its proprietary AquaRefining is first environmentally friendly process to recycle lead-acid batteries (LABs). Lead smelting—ranked as the third highest polluting industry in the world—can release toxic lead dust, smoke and slag with significant deleterious environmental and health consequences.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The 2017 release of the suite of GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) models and associated documentation includes the following expansions and updates: Added plastic-to-fuel (PTF) pathway. Added LCI data for the production of new and recycled cathode material for batteries of electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Fortune 100 companies, including automakers and utilities, have joined labor groups, consumer advocates, environmental organizations and others to sign the Transportation Electrification Accord — a written set of principles meant to inspire and continue the conversation around electrified transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan — all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

Currently, Sysco operates 11 Freightliner battery electric eCascadia tractors at its Riverside facility and expects to deploy 20 total by summer 2023. To accommodate the energy demands of this growing fleet, the Riverside site will also feature 4 MWh of battery storage and will increase its solar power generation by an additional 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

billion investment plan to support the transition to zero-emission transportation. This year’s investment dollars focus largely on underserved communities, including low-income communities and those disproportionately burdened by environmental pollution, as well as small truck fleets. The California Air Resources Board approved a $2.6-billion

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

It’s widely believed that shipping will be one of the hardest transportation segments to electrify. As reported by the South China Morning Post , the Greenwater 01’s propulsion system is powered solely by batteries, and saves 3,900 kg (8,600 lb) of fuel for every 100 nautical miles sailed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The plan is by far the largest annual investment in clean transportation incentives to date—more than double the amount of the largest past investment. The remainder comes from the Air Pollution Control Fund and the Air Quality Improvement Program. Over half of the $1.5 Over half of the $1.5

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 7, 2021

Every now and then, we see comments that battery-electric vehicles (BEV) are not as good for the climate as advertised. These are often based on pseudo-scientific articles by serious-sounding institutions. For normal people like you and me, it is hard to debunk those stories. The power of good FUD is that it sounds true.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The California Air Resources Board announced a new program that will fund a variety of projects promoting zero-emission transportation options for students, parents and staff members served by school districts in California. —CARB Executive Officer Richard Corey.

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