Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

With the grants Enel X will help develop an innovative approach to public transit fleet electrification planning which will provide the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) insights to optimally electrify a portion of their new fleet, and will support the electrification of a portion of Hopkinton Public School District’s bus fleet.

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Electrek

APRIL 24, 2023

Boston Public Schools has kicked off an ambitious new program to eventually convert its entire fleet of 750 vehicles to electric. more… The post Boston kicks off rollout of 750 electric school buses with first of the fleet transporting students appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2024

At NVIDIA GTC last week, Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders gave a talk about deploying AI in real world robots—namely, how Spot is leveraging reinforcement learning to get better at locomotion (We spoke with Saunders last year about robots falling over ). It’s very, very good at walking.

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Electrek

APRIL 13, 2022

Boston mayor Michelle Wu last week announced that Boston Public Schools will deploy 20 electric buses during the 2022-23 school year in a pilot program. Ultimately, Boston will electrify its entire school bus fleet by 2030. The post Boston will move to 100% electric school buses by 2030 appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Saab has selected UQM Technologies to provide PowerPhase 135 kW electric propulsion systems to drive its all-electric Saab 9-3 ePower ( earlier post ) 70-vehicle development test fleet. Saab will begin field trials of the test fleet in Sweden early this year. seconds together with a top speed of 150 km/h (93 mph).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The charging stations will be located in the Boston metropolitan area, primarily within the Route 495 Beltway.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

In addition, the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with MassDOT along with the City of Boston to enable testing of self-driving vehicles on roads and public property in the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, beginning in Raymond L. million co-led by NextView Ventures and FirstMark Capital.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. We talked with Playter about what the heck took Boston Dynamics so long to make this robot, what the vision is for Atlas as a product, all that extreme flexibility, and what comes next.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

Lightning Hybrids ( earlier post ) and National Fleet Hybrids have entered a partnership to sell, install and distribute Lightning’s medium-duty hydraulic hybrid retrofit systems. This partnership will provide access to the hydraulic hybrid drive system to fleets in New England and the Mid-Atlantic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Bolt EVs in the Maven fleet have driven 6.5 Maven is excited to offer an all-electric fleet of shared vehicles for the gig economy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar was the first car-sharing company in the United States to introduce electric vehicles, starting in Boston in 2002, and the first to offer hybrid vehicles through a partnership with Honda in Seattle in 2003. Zipcar has nearly 40 vehicles in approximately 20 locations throughout the greater Sacramento area.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

partnering with with the City of Houston, Texas, to launch a municipal electric vehicle (EV) fleet sharing program: Houston Fleet Share. The City of Houston selected Zipcar as its fleet technology provider through a competitive bidding process. Zipcar, Inc.is

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Enterprise Holdings plans for its entire fleet of more than 600 Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental airport shuttle buses across more than 50 North American markets to begin using at least 5% biodiesel (B5).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The high share of diesels in the PHV fleet can be also found in the traditional taxi market. It’s thought that other European cities where Uber operates have similar levels of diesels in their fleet. French government data from 2017 show that 90% of the registered private hire vehicles, which includes Uber, were diesel cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2016

XL Hybrids has introduced the XL Link cloud-based big data analytics system, which measures key performance indicators—including MPG performance—and reports carbon dioxide emissions reductions in clients’ hybrid-electric fleet vehicles. XL Link does not impact fleets’ use of existing telematics devices or services, or fuel cards.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

BAE Systems has been selected by Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and the Republic of Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA) to supply up to 600 electric power and propulsion systems for its new fleet of buses in Ireland. The selection includes an initial order for 100 systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The 9-3 ePower is the prototype for a test fleet of 70 vehicles which will participate in extensive field trials in Sweden early next year. Key to the projected longer range of 200 km are the Boston Power battery cells which have an energy storage density greater than the best currently used in EV applications, according to Saab.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” The new hybrids will be available in 24 major markets across the country, including the 10 busiest airports for business travelers in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

The new medium-duty delivery trucks, added to the company’s existing autogas fleet of 30 Ford trucks of the same model, will also help the company save on maintenance and fuel costs. Deployments in 2016 will include New York City, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. million pounds.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2022

Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The award furthers MBTA efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while establishing safe and reliable transportation for the greater Boston area. MBTA is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The Xcelsior CHARGE buses offer a total capacity of 120-passengers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board released the sixth update on its investigation into the 7 January fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston. The examination of the damaged battery continues.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

This year, the company will release between 30 to 50 fleet trials, Ashton told Green Car Congress , using the 2012 system. The planed price for production in 2013 for the full release system is starting under $8,000 including installation, Ashton said, with fleet discounts beyond that. We don’t touch the warranty. —Justin Ashton.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The agency issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking innovative ideas from commercial vendors that could help the federal government incorporate car sharing government-wide and reduce the federal fleet over time. GSA manages more than 200,000 vehicles, one of the largest non-tactical federal fleets in the US government.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2016

The new trainsets will operate along the Washington – New York – Boston Northeast Corridor initially at speeds up to 160 mph (258 km/h) and will be capable of speeds up to 186 mph (300 km/h) and thus will be able to take advantage of future NEC infrastructure improvements. In only ten years, the number of passengers has increased from 2.4

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2010

Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. – Boston Corridor. Read more in the article: Smart to Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. Smart To Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. Boston corridor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Global demand for hybrid-electric and fully electric transit solutions is increasing as more legislation is passed setting clean air regulations and transit agencies continue to establish goals for greener fleets. In order to help RTC reach its goal, the 7,000 th system was delivered to manufacturer Nova Bus to meet RTC bus orders.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Boston Globe. XL Hybrids , a startup that offers a hybrid conversion system for large fleet vehicles such as vans or Lincoln Town Cars, has raised $2 million in new funding and signed an agreement with Ashwoods Automotive in the UK, the producers of the retrofit kit. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board released the seventh update on its investigation into the 7 January fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston. NTSB investigators were made aware of reports of prior battery replacements on aircraft in the 787 fleet, early in the investigation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The company will immediately use the capital to scale its current vehicle fleet and make strategic hires as well as continue its efforts to educate the market of the potential of fully autonomous driving technology. Optimus Ride has raised a total of $23.25 million through two rounds of financing. Flynn Marine Park.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

The system automatically uploads and tags road conditions and incidents that matter (drivers don’t need to manually input data) and alerts fleet managers to accidents, near-misses or major driving performance issues. Nauto can detect potential driver distraction inside the car, as well as safety issues outside the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power (CSP), and solar photovoltaic power (PV) will see accelerating adoption and growth and are on track to change the global energy mix far earlier than is often assumed, according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Cleaner coal through carbon capture and sequestration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

Taxi Medallion Management in Chicago has purchased 12 Ford Transit Connect Taxis running on compressed natural gas (CNG) for its fleet. The first taxi was delivered to Boston Cab Dispatch in December 2010. The cabs will be affiliated with Yellow Cab Chicago and bear the company’s logo and color.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

In order to convert large North American commercial fleets to zero-emission as efficiently as possible, Chanje strategically chose to partner with FDG to leverage its technology and economies of scale found in China. FDG and Chanje co-created the product. Suresh Jayanthi, VP of Energy Services - previously Schneider Electric and others.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Introduction of New Flyer’s battery-electric, zero-emission buses support Columbia University’s Sustainability Plan, which aims to reduce transportation emissions through greener campus fleets and commute alternatives. Academy Bus is the contractor on record for Columbia University shuttle procurement.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

New Flyer also partnered with Black & Veatch, a leader in engineering and construction of complex charging networks for fleets nationwide, to deploy the high-power charging infrastructure both on-route and in the depot. The electrical infrastructure is being assembled at Siemens’ Tualatin, Oregon rail electrification facility.

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