Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The electric vehicle brand Polestar has announced that it plans to make the first EV with extremely fast-charging, semi-solid-state battery cells from the tech firm StoreDot. The announcement was made as part of a Polestar Day event held in Los Angeles on Thursday, where the companies demonstrated both the charging of StoreDot’s.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Roush F-650 EV; Elgin PHEV Street Sweepers; Beam Charging. The route to electrification is now going through the City of Los Angeles. “Los Angeles is a laboratory for innovation and new technology–a place that is always guiding the future,” LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said at the opening.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

Electrify America has completed the installation of its first cross-country route, which allows electric vehicle (EV) drivers to travel from coast to coast using the largest open DC fast-charging network in the United States. In 2019 alone, Electrify America opened DC fast-charging stations at an accelerated pace of approximately 1.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The baseline for the Toyota-Kenworth T680 FCEV truck—codenamed “Ocean”—was a 2017 diesel engine operating about 200 miles a day. The T680 FCEV has a range of about 300+ miles when fully loaded to 82,000 lbs. Earlier post.).

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Electrek

MARCH 27, 2024

Daimler and BlackRock-backed Greenlane announces plans to build 280 mile long “EV corridor” for commercial trucks running from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

EV charging manufacturer Autel Energy will showcase a $350,000 electrified classic 1969 Ford Bronco in its booth at CES. The 1969 Bronco was customized from the ground up by Los Angeles-based Zero Labs Automotive , an automotive and industrial design, technology and engineering firm specializing in electric vehicle conversions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2021

AVTA, which serves northern Los Angeles County and portions of southern Kern County, was the first transit agency in North America to make the decision to go 100% battery-electric. The K7M seats 22, has a range of up to 150 miles, and can be fully charged in 2.5 to 3 hours. content.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2022

Porsche has announced that it’s driven a Taycan from Los Angeles to New York City with less than two and a half hours of cumulative charging. miles and included 2 hours, 26 minutes, and 48 seconds of charging, with results certified by the Guinness World Records organization. The trip covered 2,834.5

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2020

Electrify America has completed its first cross-country DC fast-charging route for electric cars, installing enough stations for drivers to complete a coast-to-coast journey between Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The initial route spans 11 states and more than 2,700 miles, Electrify America said in a press release Wednesday.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

Using some clever DIY strategies and conventional solar panels, the Model Y owner was able to design a system that allows his all-electric crossover to charge from the sun while it’s parked outside. That’s a substantial amount of charge for a vehicle that’s just parked under the sun. Pretty cool.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Electrify America has opened more than 500 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the US, with more than 2,200 individual DC fast chargers. Each station has between three and ten individual DC fast chargers to accommodate multiple vehicles charging at one time.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2022

Fleet electrification provider Zeem Solutions has opened its first commercial EV transportation-as-a-service depot in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Zeem works with local utilities and renewable energy providers to ensure vehicles are charged using clean, reliable and low-cost energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is rapidly electrifying its fleet to meet sustainability goals set under the Green New Deal for Los Angeles. Using data is key to effectively serving the people of Los Angeles. —LADOT Transit Director Corinne Ralph.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Additionally, the company will direct $25 million of the $200 million investment for an initiative in the City of Long Beach and the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles (Long Beach-Wilmington), for a “Green City” program. Highlights of California’s Third ZEV Investment Plan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and China-based BYD Motors Inc. The agreement was signed and BYD vehicles were put into service at HACLA Offices in Los Angeles. The F3DM (Dual Mode) sedans used in HACLA fleets can travel by electricity for 40 to 60 miles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Effective 1 April 2022, the Port of Los Angeles will begin collecting its Clean Truck Fund (CTF) Rate to help speed the transition to zero-emissions trucks serving the San Pedro Bay port complex. The action was unanimously approved by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners. The rate will sunset 31 December 2034.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative , a study commissioned by a collaboration among nine electric utilities and two agencies representing more than two dozen municipal utilities, recommends adding electric vehicle charging for freight haulers and delivery trucks at 50-mile intervals along Interstate 5 and adjoining highways.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Polestar and StoreDot are partnering to demonstrate the fastest-charging electric vehicle battery prototype, which the battery company has been working on for several years. The battery is capable of giving drivers 100 miles of range in just five minutes of charging with its extreme fast charging, or XFC, cell.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2014

The BYD bus traveled 746 miles (1,201 km) over the 24-hour period, operating in three shifts. Each shift logged between 240 and 256 miles (386 and 412 km) before recharging the battery. The 92-mile (148-km) trip ended in Lancaster, CA with 64% of the bus battery life still remaining. —AVTA Board Chair Norm Hickling.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2022

WattEV’s TaaS model provides shippers and carriers access to battery-electric trucks at a per-mile rate, including charging, that is on par with the total cost of operating diesel trucks. As WattEV’s public charging network expands nationwide, the company plans to scale its depots to provide 1.2

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Lucid has unveiled the Gravity, officially bringing images of its first all-electric SUV to fruition as it plans to launch the 440-mile range EV to the market, with production starting in late 2024. The Lucid Gravity will make its public debut today at the Los Angeles Auto Show. ” I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) awarded $13 million to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and CALSTART to jump start California’s high-power charging infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The high-power charging support extending the range of electric trucks and increase their market penetration.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2019

Covering 2,128 miles around the circuit in a day carried the car about the distance from Los Angeles to Atlanta. The test primarily demonstrated the capability of the Taycan's new 800-volt charging system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million to seven projects to develop medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans across 23 states. The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

US bus maker Blue Bird has received an order from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for 150 of its All American and 30 of its Vision electric school buses. They have a range of up to 130 miles and are expected to take between three and eight hours to fully recharge, based on the district’s future charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Hyundai introduced its refreshed IONIQ car lineup in a North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Drivers of the new 2020 IONIQ Electric can also enjoy 170 miles (274 km) of range thanks to an upgraded 38.3-kWh kWh, and offers a total of 170 miles of estimated range. kW—for Type 2 AC charging.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

With the Rivian R1T pickup revealed this morning, just ahead of the Los Angeles auto show, and the R1S SUV expected to be shown here this week, a Michigan-based electric-vehicle startup called Rivian might have something that’s been a long time coming: the first widely available fully electric light-duty pickup.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

This collaboration is part of a $41-million Zero and Near-Zero Emissions Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) grant preliminarily awarded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), with the Port of Los Angeles as the prime applicant. To remove pollution and improve the air quality in and around the Port of Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

(“NFI”), the largest bus manufacturer in North America, unveiled the Xcelsior CHARGE H2—ts fuel cell-electric heavy-duty transit bus—and announced that both the forty-foot and sixty-foot model have successfully completed the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Model Bus Testing Program at Altoona, Pennsylvania (Altoona Testing).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Kansas City International Airport has four 30-foot BYD battery-electric K7s, and BYD’s largest airport customer to date, Los Angeles World Airports, has ordered 20 of BYD’s 60-foot articulated K11Ms. The K9M has a range of up to 150 miles and charges in two to three hours.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Country Hills Shopping Plaza in Torrance, California will be the site of the first DC fast charging station to open in the state as part of Electrify America’s plan to install approximately 160 charging stations in California by June 2019. Within California, average distance between stations is projected to be 48 miles.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Manufactured in Japan, RIZON trucks are designed for urban and last-mile delivery applications and routes of up to 160 miles per day. Among the initial US customers is LA Sanitation & Environment, which is deploying seven e18L RIZON trucks with stake bed bodies for delivery of home trash bins to Los Angeles residents. “Our

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2023

million miles to date and offset more than 2,300 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—equivalent to eliminating 225,933 gallons of diesel fuel consumption. NFI’s Ontario charging infrastructure is anticipated to be installed and energized by the end of 2023. million), MSRC ($8 million), and South Coast AQMD ($5.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

True Zero , which operates the world’s largest network of hydrogen charging stations, has powered two-million miles of zero-emission driving on California roads 60 days after reaching its first million miles. Earlier post.). —Joel Ewanick, Founder and CEO of FirstElement Fuel , True Zero’s parent. —Joel Ewanick.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If you’ve heard of the Cannonball Run, you’re probably either thinking of the 1981 film or the real-world records people have set driving from New York to Los Angeles. As of this writing, the fastest run I’m aware of was done in 25 hours and 39 minutes, with an average speed of 125 miles per […]

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Lucid Air Dream Edition has received a preliminary EPA range rating of 520 miles, becoming the first elective vehicle to achieve an EPA rating of over 500 miles. With the 520-mile rating, the Lucid Air Dream Edition surpassed its closest competitor, the Tesla Model S Long Range, by over 100 miles. Lucid Group.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 22, 2022

The location is in the Mojave Desert town of Barstow, California, around 115 miles outside of Los Angeles. It’s located 156 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Tesla is reportedly building a 100-stall Supercharger station. The station will be the largest station in the US to date.

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