Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2020

The first pilot Volvo VNR Electric truck will operate at the Volvo Trucks North America TEC Equipment dealership in Fontana, California. —Aravind Kailas, advanced technology policy director for Volvo Group North America. million from CARB as part of California Climate Investments (CCI).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

The order marks the company’s first time supplying batteries for motorcoaches and buses in North America. While transportation is responsible for a quarter of global emissions, buses and diesel buses in particular play an outsized role in producing emissions that negatively impact the climate and environment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Volvo Trucks North America announced today that third-party supply chain solutions provider NFI began piloting two Volvo VNR Electric trucks as part of the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project, becoming the third company to deploy its battery-electric trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

Both initiatives form part of the climate action plan that Volvo Cars revealed this year. The 2025 plan is one tangible step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition of becoming a climate-neutral company by 2040. This is one example of our commitment to reducing our impact on the environment through meaningful, concrete steps.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 18, 2024

School leaders, representatives from the Maryland State House and Department of Environment, the EPA, and other project stakeholders are set to unveil 25 new electric school buses that will take kids to Baltimore City Schools every day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The electric trucks will be added to DHE’s existing fleet of more than 500 Volvo trucks operating across North America. Freight operator Dependable Highway Express (DHE) has received two Volvo VNR Electric trucks—the first battery-electric Class 8 trucks to join DHE’s fleet. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

Last year we opened our first office in North America in Portland, Ore. Autonomous charging will enable reliable and fast charging while reducing the wear and tear on charging cables and connectors. Drivers will only have to park yard tractors near charging stations versus manually connecting vehicles to the stations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Sales of the VNR Electric in North America will begin in 2020. —Peter Voorhoeve, president of Volvo Trucks North America. —Johan Agebrand, Volvo Trucks North America director of product marketing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

New Flyer of America Inc. New Flyer is currently delivering 25 Xcelsior CHARGE H2 fuel cell-electric buses to three transit agencies as part of California Climate Investments (CCI). and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc. (“NFI”),

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Anheuser-Busch, BYD, the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), and ENGIE Services US announced that Anheuser-Busch will be deploying 21 BYD battery electric trucks in their California fleet as part of a state project to showcase economically and environmentally sustainable warehousing and distribution technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Negative-carbon RNG is produced when carbon emissions are captured from dairies and turned into a transportation fuel, reducing the harmful effects on long-term climate change. Separately, Clean Energy Fuels announced plans work with BP Products North America Inc, a subsidiary of BP p.l.c. 50M from bp. —Andrew J.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In North America, sales of the Volvo VNR Electric, a truck for regional transport, will start in December 2020. To reduce the impact of transport on the climate, we need to make a swift transition from fossil fuels to alternatives such as electricity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

—Mike Mansuetti, president of Bosch in North America. Capital upgrades to the Anderson campus include an estimated 147,000 square feet of floorspace to be developed to manufacture the fuel cell stack as well as supporting clean room and climate-controlled environments required for quality-critical processes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. —First author Associate Professor Steve Yim, from NTU’s Asian School of the Environment, who holds an appointment at LKCMedicine. In North America, a 0.1 ?g/m LSCC is often linked to a history of smoking. micrograms per cubic meter (?g/m

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

Scientists from the US, Norway, Russia, Germany, Italy and China are participating in a study examining the potential role of black carbon, or soot, on the rapidly changing Arctic climate. The Arctic climate is changing faster than some scientists expected. Black carbon is contributing to this warming.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Shifts in the hydrological cycle resulting in the disappearance of regional climates with related losses of ecosystems, species and the spread of drylands northwards and southwards away from the equator. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. Previously, analyses of ozone trends at individual or smaller groups of sites often left researchers unable to draw robust conclusions about regional trends in areas such as Europe and North America. Owen Cooper.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The FCEBCC project is funded and sponsored by: the California Air Resources Board (CARB) through the California Climate Investments program; the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD); and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Volvo LIGHTS partner and Volvo Trucks North America dealership TEC Equipment offers 150 kW fast chargers at its Fontana, California location so that fleet customers can charge their Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 trucks. million from the California Air Resources Board as part of California Climate Investments (CCI).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

By leveraging an already existing eco-system and infrastructure, ClearFlame’s solution not only gets us to our climate goals faster, but can do so less expensively—saving fleets money, without any green premium. This is critical, particularly in industries like heavy-duty transportation. Vander Haag’s, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

the leader in hydrogen fuel and technology in North America, will supply and deliver liquid hydrogen on a weekly basis to the facility. The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), a nonprofit that advocates for clean, sustainable, innovative transportation and energy technologies, is managing the project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This project is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By adopting this regulatory amendment, Québec has taken a major step in pursuing the deployment of further action within the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create an extensive carbon market in North America. —Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks, Yves-François Blanchet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Winnebago is displaying the vehicle in San Francisco, at both CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero Workshop on September 11 th and the Global Climate Action Summit 12-14 September 2018. The vehicle is slated to be the first eBloodmobile in service in North America.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

The company is also continuing to pursue its shift to a Dealer Partnership model in both North America and Europe. Electrek’s Take WSJ sourced “people familiar with the matter,” and while the outlet generally has good business reporting, one should also consider its history of spreading climate disinformation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Switchgrass is found in the tallgrass prairies across North America and can thrive in soils unsuitable for other crops, making it useful not only for livestock grazing and to prevent soil erosion, but as a potential biofuel. As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. Tom Juenger. Kathrine D.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) has proposed new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, aligned with current standards in place in the rest of North America and in the European Union. And the climate benefits of the reductions in black carbon emissions are also a great step forward.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

Linking with Québec is a significant advance in California’s efforts to fight climate change and steer our economy toward a clean energy future. Climate change is a global issue that must be addressed by all levels of government. —Québec minister for Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. —Comer et al. —Comer et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The event has already helped Beijing clean up its skies and environment, and has fired up local energy-technology markets. The 2022 event will also put a limelight on climate-friendly refrigeration. CO 2 is a climate villain, of course, but conventional hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants are worse. C, giving more uniform ice.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A large proportion of the people who now live in rural areas will move to cities , just as happened over the last century in North America. Concurrently, rising sea levels caused by climate change will swamp many coastal cities throughout the world, forcing them to rebuild parts of themselves on higher ground.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The plant has adopted technologies to keep the facility dust free and is fully climate controlled to manage humidity and create the most suitable environment for quality engine production. The four-cylinder Duramax engines were tested in extreme conditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If material production phase emissions continue to be overlooked, negative effects on the environment will begin before the vehicle is ever driven. Steel offers the best solution for the environment, the best performance and cost effective solution for automakers, and ultimately the best value for consumers. million US homes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The use of kenaf is anticipated to offset 300,000 pounds of oil-based resin per year in North America; use of this material reduces the weight of the door bolsters by 25%. A stand of kenaf in the Texas Rio Grande Valley towers over a USDA ARS scientist. Photo by David Nance. Source: ARS. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

“PBVs will play a key role in the customization of mobility, and by partnering with Uber, Kia aims to deliver industry-leading technology with advanced software and services to enhance the ride hailing experience,” said SeungKyu (Sean) Yoon, president & CEO, Kia North America, and Kia America.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford Motor Company and its financing subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company, introduced the North America auto industry’s first sustainable financing framework, focusing on and paying for ambitious plans in vehicle electrification and other environmental and social areas.

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