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California trucking firm switches fleet of 600+ trucks to Neste renewable diesel

Green Car Congress

Ecology is one of the largest trucking and transportation companies in the Western United States, providing services for transportation, heavy haul and oversize loads, and containers to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Switching 600 trucks, which drive on average 25,000 miles per year at approximately 2.5

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JetBlue and Shell Aviation collaborate to bring 10M gallons of SAF to LAX over next 2 years; option for 5M more in third year

Green Car Congress

JetBlue and Shell Aviation are collaborating to bring additional supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), targeting commencement of delivery in the first half of 2023. Shell has announced its ambition to have 10% of its aviation jet fuel sales as SAF by 2030.

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News FAIL - L.A. Times Blows Global Warming Story

Creative Greenius

It’s buried in the California section and it’s given just a fraction of the ink that the “news&# about the tiny town of Newman’s gets for its move to ban a book with too much cursing in it. By looking to Inhofe to “balance&# their story with a predicable quote, the Times spews toxic waste all over itself.

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October '06 - CARB Takes Testimony on Electrics; LA Takes Action on RAV4 EVs

Plugs and Cars

Dave Hermance said producing more than 30 FCVs per generation is a waste of money and resources. Holiday EVangelism - Book and Movie Stocking-Stuffers November will see the publication of “Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America” by San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association president Sherry Boschert.

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United Airlines invests $30M in Fulcrum BioEnergy; renewable jet fuel offtake agreement, potential joint development of production

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the developer of a process for converting municipal solid waste into low-cost sustainable aviation biofuel. United Airlines made a $30-million equity investment in US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., Earlier post.) The investment is so far the largest single investment by a US airline in alternative fuels.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

One of the first times Superpaint was seen by a wide audience was in a public television show, “Supervisions,” produced by station KCET in Los Angeles. “It Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. It looked like a book, and Addison-Wesley agreed to publish it as a book. Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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