Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Taxi Affiliation Services (TAS), which operates Yellow Cab Chicago, has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Yellow Cab Chicago and its affiliates plan an initial deployment of 100 new CNG taxis. Clean Energy partnered with Yellow Cab Chicago to apply for and secure $1.5 Clean Energy also owns BAF Technologies, Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Naturally, we tend to think of electric vehicles as a new thing. Those of us who have been learning about them for at least a few years know that electric vehicles were a big chunk of the market 100 years ago. Things then got complicated, with the market changing for a variety of reasons.) Though, […].

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Chevy launched the Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel (to use its full, rather awkward title) earlier this morning at the Chicago Auto Show, and now we can bring you photos of the car from the show floor. As one of two new U.S.-built built diesels going on sale in 2013, the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel is a hugely important car.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Today's UCOTD is a mostly clean-looking 2006 Acura RSX Type S that's based here in the Chicago area -- snap it up before I do. Oh, and the title is clean. The mileage is over 154K and the ask is $8,500. It looks to be in decent shape, though with obvious wear and tear, in the photos.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

United Airlines, Boeing, Honeywell’s UOP, the Chicago Department of Aviation and the Clean Energy Trust today have formed the Midwest Aviation Sustainable Biofuels Initiative ( MASBI ), designed to advance aviation biofuel development in a 12-state region holding significant promise for biomass feedstock, technology development, job creation and sustainable (..)

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Electrek

APRIL 1, 2021

GE Renewable Energy has made an agreement with Chicago-based Invenergy, a global clean energy developer and operator, to provide wind turbines for the 1.48 gigawatt North Central Wind Energy Facilities in Oklahoma.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 13, 2024

Argonne teams up with the Civic Infrastructure Collaborative and Millennium Parking Garages to reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions Offering electric scooter rentals to parking garage customers can help reduce traffic and carbon emissions in Chicago, according to an Argonne collaboration.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Due to be launched at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, the 2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI is set to combine retro style with modern-day gas mileage. It's been six years since the last Volkswagen Beetle TDI was on sale in North America, but Volkswagen has now announced a brand new model.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The 2014 Chevrolet Clean Turbo Diesel model is being unveiled today at the Chicago Auto Show, and will go on sale the summer in the U.S. It's been a long time coming, but the wraps are now off Chevy's first diesel-powered passenger car since 1986. and Canada.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s kind of fun to think about how future kids might not know anything about gas-powered cars. When they become the norm, and kids didn’t ride in them growing up, didn’t learn to drive on gas, and didn’t generally know that world at all, things for them might be the opposite than they are for […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the near-term charging and refueling infrastructure needs for zero-emission Class 4-8 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDV) at the national and sub-national levels. The NHFN is projected to comprise 85% of the charging needs from long-haul trucks by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

Communities and utilities receiving the new technology were partially funded under the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program jointly administered through the Wisconsin State Energy Office and the US Department of Energy Wisconsin Clean Cities Program. The Terex Commander 4042 digger derrick features a DUECO, Inc. ComEd received a $1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Worth); Los Angeles-Dallas; Houston-Chicago; Chicago-Atlanta; and a network of stations along major highways in the mid-west region (IL, IN, OH, MO, KY, TN, KS, OK, AL) to serve the heavy trucking traffic in the area. Littlefair, Clean Energy’s President and CEO. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

The Oleo Sponge, a patent-pending technology to clean oil spills invented at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, performed successfully in an experiment conducted off the coast of Southern California. Darling and a team of scientists started out with common polyurethane foam, the kind used in furniture cushions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The findings confirm that cities in Europe face the same challenges as American ones, such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, where Uber and Lyft have been shown to exacerbate pollution and congestion. The campaign in Europe calls on Uber to go 100% clean in large cities by 2025. That’s the right thing to do, full stop.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 24, 2021

A bold new program is accelerating the transition to zero-emissions trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2016

The vehicles, existing Workhorse walk-in vans with GM gasoline engines and equipped with the Lightning Hybrids Energy Recovery System (ERS), are in service on the streets of Chicago and were partially paid for by the Drive Clean Chicago voucher program for clean vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Clean Energy. Clean Fuels Ohio. The Lake Michigan Corridor Alternative Fuel Implementation Initiative, which includes Southeastern Wisconsin, greater Chicago and Northern. Region Clean Cities. Clean Cities. The I-40 Collaboration of Clean Cities, a partnership across Arkansas and. Gas Technology. 750,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Orange’s T-Series is the only terminal truck solution that qualifies for financial incentives through Drive Clean Chicago (DCC). Through the Drive Clean Chicago program, CMAQ funds are paid directly to Orange EV to reduce customer purchase price.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Chicago O’Hare would demand the equivalent of 719 tonnes of liquid hydrogen per day. Chicago O’Hare, for instance, would demand the equivalent of 719 tonnes of liquid hydrogen per day. And the hydrogen would have to either be produced through clean or nuclear energy to provide real climate benefits, the paper noted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

the world’s largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions, placed 50 Lightning Hybrids hydraulic hybrid delivery trucks in the Chicago metro area. United Parcel Service, Inc., The first of the hydraulic hybrid systems were commissioned last week.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Click to enlarge. Total DOE award: $15,000,000. Total DOE award: $14,999,905.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

Through the Chicago-Area EV Infrastructure Project, 26 fast-chargers have been installed, with 73 total fast-chargers planned. The installations, managed by 350Green, were performed by Chicago-based JNS Power & Control Systems. The Chicago-Area EV Infrastructure Project is funded in part by the state’s Illinois Jobs Now!

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At the Automation Fair in Chicago, Rockwell Automation, Inc. today announced a partnership with the Ford Motor Company for the joint development and implementation of assembly tooling designs and architectures for its next three electric vehicle assembly sites. “We

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The cleaned syngas is then processed through an amine system to capture and remove sulfur and carbon dioxide. The syngas then enters the secondary gas clean-up section that contains compression to increase syngas to the pressure required by the FT process. The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 1, 2022

Students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that is in a minute. “To To […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

A study by University of Chicago economist Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, the Glen A. To make achieving the 2 °C target more palatable to countries, we must develop technologies and install capital that make the substitution between fossil fuels for clean energy sources less costly. —Esteban Rossi-Hansberg.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Sponsored by the DOE Clean Cities program, AFLEET (Alternative Fuel Life-Cycle Environmental and Economic Transportation Tool) is a free, publicly-available tool that provides users with a roadmap for assessing which types of vehicles and fuels are right for them. The Clean Cities program is responsible for displacing 7.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2021

Steffen Mueller, PhD, The University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. Nikita Pavlenko, International Council on Clean Transportation. Annie Levasseur, PhD, École de technologie supérieure. Michalek, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Donald W. Scott, Scientific Certification Systems. Scown, PhD, University of California, Berkeley.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

ComEd’s service area covers most of northern Illinois, including the city of Chicago and […] The company was founded in 1907 and has been providing reliable energy services to customers for over a century.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) announced the first research grants from the EPIC-UCAS Joint Center for Energy Policy Research in China.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The tool was created as a part of an innovative clean-vehicle program recently launched in the Midwest. The project was announced at the 2017 Chicago Auto Show. States currently covered by the new tool are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 22, 2022

CHICAGO, Aug. Scientists report that they’ve designed superfast charging methods tailored to power different types of electric vehicle batteries in 10 minutes or less without harm. 22, 2022 — Despite the growing popularity of electric vehicles, many consumers still hesitate to make the switch.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As we kept inching closer to our carbon-reduction goal, we wanted to support colleges going above and beyond to help combat climate change, and open the door for other companies to contribute to such campus clean energy projects. The balance is scheduled to be retired summer of 2015.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2023

” Rivian showroom to open in luxury Chicago neighborhood Once complete, the Starfire coal mine will be the BrightNight Starfire Renewable Energy Center. BrightNight plans to construct a 20-mile transmission line for the renewable energy project, enabling an additional 1GW of clean power generation for the site.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

The project will be administered by CALSTART, a member-supported organization dedicated to clean transportation alternatives. Ballard has a long history of working with New Flyer Industries, having powered fuel cell buses in Vancouver, Chicago and the Palm Springs region dating back to the first ever prototype fuel cell bus in 1991.

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