Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Lightning Systems, a developer of zero-emission powertrains for commercial fleets, has received an Executive Order from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the Lightning Electric Transit Bus Repower, with HVIP approval expected within the next several weeks. A repower is a cost-effective and timely solution for transit agencies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Heavy-duty electric truck builder Orange EV announced that fleets in California can purchase a new T-Series pure electric terminal truck for less than the cost of a new Tier 4 diesel truck. The T-Series remains the only commercially deployed 100% electric class 8 vehicle. —Mike Saxton, Orange EV chief commercial officer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

Ford Model e also will lead on creating an exciting new shopping, buying and ownership experience for its future electric vehicle customers that includes simple, intuitive e-commerce platforms, transparent pricing and personalized customer support from Ford ambassadors. Ford reaffirms guidance for 2022 of $11.5 billion to $12.5

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Blink Charging

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But while these rebates and incentives can help lower the total cost of electrifying your fleet, the program landscape can be confusing. Government agencies at all levels provide incentives for buying EVs and/or installing electric vehicle infrastructure. Grant award amounts vary and may cover up to 100% of the incremental AFV cost.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The drive to fleet electrification includes all classifications of vehicles, from passenger EVs and light commercial vehicles to municipal and school buses to medium- and heavy-duty trucks. EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

Founded in 1994, Broad-Ocean is a global manufacturer of motors that power small and specialized electric machinery for electric vehicles (EVs), including buses, commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles, and for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., of the company following the transaction.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Business Secretary Ed Miliband said: “The government needs to step up help for low and middle income earners to buy electric cars and accelerate the rollout of charging points in areas currently left out to ensure everyone benefits from the transition and Make the green transition fair.” Carbon reduction acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

Twenty-four projects demonstrated clear commercial value and identified technical solutions for CAV technology, including how these vehicles will work within the UK transport system. The test bed program forms part of the government’s Industrial Strategy commitment to develop world-class CAV testing infrastructure.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ford’s biggest market for the F-150 is its commercial customers, and Ford hopes that will continue with the Lightning. Ford’s fleet business is a proven success with commercial truckers. As with other Ford EVs like the Mustang Mach-E and the E-Transit, demand has been overwhelming, making it almost impossible to buy one.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Here’s a quick timeline of the key incentives based on information from the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association : The key benefit for EV owners remains the green tax deals on buying (no purchase or import tax), leasing (no VAT on leased EVs) and owning EVs (no road tax, reduced company car tax). Investing in Infrastructure.

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Charged EVs

JUNE 13, 2024

V2G pilots abound, but Synop is one of the few firms that can claim to be doing V2G on a least a quasi-commercial basis—in 2023, the company enabled some 200 V2G transactions across 4 US states, sending some 30 MWh of energy back to the grid. Gagan Dhillon: No, actually, we have Class 8 electric trucks, we have last-mile delivery vans.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

For SpaceX to design and build its own custom bulk commodity storage tanks instead of buying what is arguably a fairly routine and cheap off-the-shelf technology, Starship production has to be DIRT CHEAP. That won’t be the case for its orbital-class big brother. link] — Eric Ralph (@13ericralph31) April 6, 2021.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

In our mind, it was a watch out — will people buy Scorpio classic? As Anish Shah has said, we are developing them as world class products, some of you got a glimpse of that, a lot of media saw that in Cape Town earlier in the year. Hence they will buy our EV for the same reasons. We are actually seeing two segments emerge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The combined entity will have a balanced and profitable global presence with a highly complementary and iconic brand portfolio covering all key vehicle segments from luxury, premium, and mainstream passenger cars through to SUVs and trucks & light commercial vehicles. The total one-time cost of achieving the synergies is estimated at €2.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Comparison of 2015-2020 new vehicle potential fuel-saving technologies for seven vehicle types: tractor trailer (TT), Class 3-6 box (box), Class 3-6 bucket (bucket), Class 8 refuse (refuse), transit bus (bus), motor coach (coach), and Class 2b pickups and vans (2b). Source: TIAX. Click to enlarge. per gallon or higher.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

But with Moore's Law cranking along at a steady pace, there was every reason to think that the cost of computing power would come down sufficiently within a decade or so. It would be a sin to let this world-class group disperse. Note that Jobs did not buy Pixar. That kind of computing power was not affordable in the mid-1970s.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. After many discussions with players in the commercial EV field, we realized that the problem was proving the performance of EVs. Rustam Kocher has been a pioneer in the commercial EV field. Everything on a commercial vehicle has to be more rugged.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla helped former shareholder Toyota to bring back the Toyota RAV4 EV , an electric SUV and also aided its other OEM shareholder, Daimler (which also has since divested its Tesla shares), with the Smart ED and B-Class Electric. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 billion through 2019. times the direct reductions. Electric Vehicles”.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

Orange EV announced that businesses and organizations with fleets in California can receive a preliminary voucher of $95,000, increasable up to $120,000, toward the purchase of a new T-Series battery-electric Class 8 terminal truck with extended duty battery pack. Mike Saxton, Orange EV chief commercial officer.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

IBM's large commercial customers faced the implications of this emerging technology: Who would maintain the equipment and its software? Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. Tom Munnecke/Getty Images.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As crazy as it sounds, customers leaping into the all-electric Class 8 sector are putting trust in the companies they buy from when weighing what is arguably the most important metric of the EV ownership experience: range. ” So how do you know how far an all-electric Class 8 heavy-duty vehicle goes?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. This project will be the first commercial deployment of articulated fuel cell buses in the US. New Jersey Transit. 797,550.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Charge management software optimizes charging based on the available power, the schedules of the vehicles and the cost of electricity—from the rudimentary systems built into chargers to highly sophisticated systems that integrate with micro-grids or depot management. We do a lot of reselling work. I think that is a good model.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations , and state and federal EV rebates, “ you’re going to see that you have no more excuses ” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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Electra Vehicles

JULY 21, 2021

Commercial fleet operating companies lead the electrification movement, pushing for innovative electric vehicle technology and solutions across geographic markets that passenger vehicles have yet to embrace. Here are the top three reasons why commercial fleets, rather than personal vehicles, are electrifying fastest.

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Plug in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The cost of an e-bike ranges from $500 to thousands of dollars, with the average price around $2,500, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. So, if you’re in the market for a fun new ride, an electric motorcycle or an e-bike are best-in-class options. million gallons of gasoline or 4.2 million barrels of oil.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

You’re buying components from other suppliers, but you’re working closely with them to customize the stuff to your specifications. It’s still sort of an early part of the industry, so it’s not so easy to just go out and buy what you need. Secondarily, on that battery decision, I think we looked a lot at cost. Dustin: Yeah.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Wireless charging is nothing new— Charged has covered wireless EV charging since at least 2011—but it may be that its true value is only coming into focus now, as more and more commercial and transit fleets are electrifying. I could drive a Class 8 truck over a light-duty charger, and it will activate one pad of that truck and still charge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year, with accompanying disposal costs of about $5 billion per year. Finding water to buy for fracking operations in the West, for example, has become increasingly challenging and expensive for oil and gas companies.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Electrifying commercial vehicles is a critical part of reducing emissions, so it’s frustrating that the pace of fleet electrification has been so slow. Viable commercial EVs have been around for years, but fleet operators insisted on conducting years-long pilots to prove their reliability. Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 truck.

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Cars That Think

MAY 4, 2022

Built on top of iRobot’s Create 3 in close partnership with Open Robotics, the TurtleBot 4 is “the next-generation of the world’s most popular open-source robotics platform for education and research, offering superior computing power, more payload capacity, improved sensors, and a world class user experience at an affordable price.”

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Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

Charged spoke with Zeem Solutions CEO Paul Gioupis, who’s been involved with commercial EVs since the early days, and he had a lot to say about various aspects of fleet electrification. They wanted to buy one or two trucks and test them for several years, and startup companies couldn’t stay alive that long. Fast-forward to 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Furthermore, the batteries in a PHEV are generally smaller than those in any other electric vehicle constructed today and the battery savings in the PHEV from a pure BEV can easily make up for the cost of the small liquid-fueled engine, resulting in a lower-cost production vehicle for mass distribution.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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