Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2019

SYSCO Leasing LLC: A $432,320 grant to replace 24 diesel Class 8 trucks with new diesel trucks used in food and food-related products distribution. Port Authority of Allegheny County: A $1,104,000 grant to replace two diesel transit buses with two new battery electric buses and install two charging stations. Multi-county.

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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. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. Its first model was an electric adaptation of its conventional diesel-powered VNR tractor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2010

The EcoRide BE-35 is a fast-charge, 35' battery-electric transit bus that replaces traditional diesel buses. The vehicle achieves between 18 and 29 miles per gallon diesel fuel equivalent fully loaded with 68 passengers. Proterra Proterra’s systems are scalable to all forms of commercial buses and Class 6-8 trucks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In addition to seeking more heavy-duty applications for the RunWise hybrid system—such as transit—McGrew said that the company is working on a new generation of the product that should launch in 2016 for Class 4-6 delivery trucks—e.g., FedEx, UPS, etc. Earlier post.) A cradle assembly houses the major RunWise components.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. At this filling station the diesel/CyclOx mixture will initially be available for a selected test group.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 6, 2023

Head of the hybrid MPG class Hybrid Efficiency Efficient, but not quick The 2023 Kia Niro Hybrid running on 87 octane is the class leader in fuel economy. The Green Zone mode automatically switches to EV mode through navigation and driving history when driving in residential neighborhoods, past schools and hospitals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

The California Air Resources Board has adopted a first-in-the-world rule—the Advanced Clean Trucks ( earlier post )—requiring truck manufacturers to transition from diesel trucks and vans (Class 2b to Class 8) to electric zero-emission trucks beginning in 2024.

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Clean Cleaning Los Angeles Pollution 321

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The engines shall have extremely low engine-out nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM) as a target; and shall have efficiency similar to state-of-the-art direct injection diesel engines (i.e., approximately 45% peak thermal efficiency for light duty and greater-than 50% peak thermal efficiency for heavy duty).

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

And there’s 40% of the Class 8 market and the medium-duty market that [drives] under 250 miles a day. Probably one of the fastest things out there going electric is underground mining, because one of the big problems is, when you have diesel equipment down in a mine, how do you get all the fumes out? Garbage trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2015

a developer of range-extended electric vehicle powertrains for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles ( earlier post ), has unveiled the Fulcrum, a new proprietary turbine generator for use in its Route family of electric powertrains (Route for Class 3-6, Route HD for Class 7-8). Wrightspeed Inc., It has all those advantages.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), a subset of the PEV, uses electricity plus a different energy source (at present gasoline or diesel) to run its second engine.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

A future HSR/IPR (high-speed rail/intercity passenger rail) network using new diesel or electric power can further enhance rail’s advantages. One would create new corridors for world-class high-speed rail; the other would involve making train service along existing rail lines incrementally faster. Vision for High-Speed Rail in America.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2021

A major part of my California Cruising road trip was to exclusively use the Electrify America charging network, which was established by Volkswagen in 2016 as mitigation of the diesel emissions settlement with the US government. The turning radius was impressive, making for easy U-turns in your neighborhood.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

I could drive a Class 8 truck over a light-duty charger, and it will activate one pad of that truck and still charge. Or they’re saying you have to buy [up to] two electric buses to replace every diesel bus because of this battery behavior impact. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

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