Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2012

Among the company’s initiatives to improve fuel economy are: Upcoming addition of 87 all-electric trucks to its green fleet bringing the all-electric vehicle count to 130. New York City and several locations in Texas. FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp., announced that its vehicle fleet was 16.6% Rockville, M.D.);

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

A new report produced by INRIX and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) shows that traffic congestion in the US has returned to pre-recession levels. tops the list of gridlock-plagued cities, with 82 hours of delay per commuter, followed by Los Angeles (80 hours), San Francisco (78 hours), New York (74 hours), and San Jose (67 hours).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

Buses powered by HybriDrive currently transport nearly two million passengers a day in cities across North America and the UK including Houston, London, Manchester, New York, Ottawa, Oxford, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and others. and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011. Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., Atlanta, Ga.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

By continuing to develop a rear-wheel-drive hybrid system on our own, we can extend our advanced hybrid technologies to new vehicle segments and deliver even better fuel economy across our lineup. Fueling the growth is increasing demand for Ford C-MAX and Ford Fusion hybrid vehicles in California and other new hybrid markets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

NO 2 ’s contribution exceeded 20% in 92 cities located in both developed and emerging economies. The problem affects cities in the United States as well: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas and Milwaukee were the top five cities in the US with the highest percentage of pediatric asthma cases linked to polluted air.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Drivers in major metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles spend even longer times queuing to and from work every day. Autonomous driving has potential for improving road safety, traffic flow and fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

One of the two new hybrid police vehicles will be built in Chicago, and both will be upfitted with their police gear at Ford’s dedicated police vehicle modification center in Chicago. The company also plans to be as aggressive in developing global electrified vehicles services and solutions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

The Hybrid Adaptive Control System continuously communicates with the Engine Control Unit (ECU) to evaluate driving and road conditions to optimize the truck’s fuel economy and performance. Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and California. The hybrid models are equipped with a NiMH battery pack.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Or, perhaps, Toyota just wants to sell the car on fuel economy and green cred while it works to figure out which powertrain tech is best going forward. Other assorted musings and hits and misses: Kia's really leaning into the boxy, rugged look with the new Sorento.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Kia Motors America (KMA) introduced the 2015 Soul EV at the Chicago Auto Show. inch OLED screen provides information on the vehicle’s energy flow, charging time, ECO driving level and energy economy, which measures how efficiently the battery is operating. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some short distance plane routes have already been cancelled, and train travel from Beijing to Shanghai (roughly equivalent to New York to Chicago) has been cut from 11 hours to 4 hours. Advanced Coal Technologies. Alternative Energy Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

City of Chicago, Department of Environment’s Chicago Area Alternative Fuels Deployment Project. The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $14,999,927.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Capital District Transportation Authority, New York: $3,520,000. The new Fisher buses will provide more than triple the equivalent fuel economy in all-electric mode and reduce CO2 emissions due to the extensive use of lightweight materials and the large capacity battery system. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Federal Reserve announced another rate hike a few days ago, which helped edge up the dollar to a new high for the year. The greenback has “a little room to run,” Kathy Jones, a New York-based chief fixed-income strategist at Charles Schwab, said in a Bloomberg interview. “We and the euro by 5.4%.”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Among these flights were the three most frequently flown routes in the United Sates (New York to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to San Francisco, and Chicago to New York); the shortest flight that is code shared with a major U.S. The results for flying economy class are shown in the table below.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

But they’re not a slam dunk in today’s economy. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Chicago Tribune ) DaimlerChrysler 12/22/06 [DaimlerChrysler Group research chief Thomas Weber] played down the importance for passenger cars of plug-in hybrid technology that is getting lots of attention in the U.S. New York Times ) Ford top 7/19/07 The opportunities and possibilities are huge," Mike Tamor, Ford Motor Co.s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Got a hot tip on breaking green news, or a suggestion for areas of coverage? Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Got a hot tip on breaking green news, or a suggestion for areas of coverage? Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved. If no one wants your car (because people think it sucks), then no one will buy it, regardless of how good the fuel economy may or may not be.

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