Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

km) stretch of highway after installing a catenary system for electric and hybrid trucks in the vicinity of the largest US ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The objective is to eliminate local emissions such as nitrogen oxides completely and to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and cut the operating costs of trucks.

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Los Angeles Long Beach California Electric 255

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

The study found that not only are current and emerging electric truck models and charging systems capable of meeting most of the technical needs of the fleets examined—although operational challenges remain—they also offer operational and fuel savings over diesel alternatives.

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Fleet Charging Grid Energy Storage 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The projects range from electric locomotives, trucks and refrigeration trailers at railyards in Stockton and San Bernardino, to a hybrid tugboat and electric cranes and forklifts at the Port of Long Beach. All 11 projects are located within disadvantaged communities that are heavily impacted by air pollution from freight facilities.

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Clean Cleaning Transportation San Francisco 191

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Meritor has a strategic investment in TransPower and is the exclusive commercial distributor of these systems. (At The ElecTruck system uses high-power electric motors, inverters and batteries to power commercial trucks weighing as much as 80,000 lb.). UQM for e-axles.

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Peterbilt All-Electric San Diego Los Angeles 170

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. That’s about to change.

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Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 131

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Residential: The primary, most convenient and cost efficient fueling option for many drivers is residential charging. However, the cost and complexity of installing home charging can be a barrier to ZEV adoption for some buyers, especially in low-income communities. Santa Cruz-Watsonville.

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America California Emissions Vehicles 239

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. After many discussions with players in the commercial EV field, we realized that the problem was proving the performance of EVs. Rustam Kocher has been a pioneer in the commercial EV field. Well, that phase of the transition is over.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Enova brought its Ze (zero emissions) commercialized all-electric step-van to the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach. Operating costs are projected to be $.08- 48 per mile in a comparable diesel vehicle. Operating costs are projected to be $.08- 48 per mile in a comparable diesel vehicle.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Kansas City 170

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

The power behind the sponsorship In its fifth year of IndyCar sponsorship , Capstone provides energy to clients with commercial buildings, hospitals, hotels, colleges, prisons, military bases, multifamily buildings and wastewater treatment plants. We discussed the company’s technology and how it leverages the IndyCar series sponsorship.

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Green Indianapolis Clean Cleaning 85

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2009

the developer of the NuVinci continuously variable planetary (CVP) transmission ( earlier post ), introduced a new suite of automotive- and truck-related applications for the NuVinci CVP, referred to as continuously variable accessory drives (CVADs), at the Clean Heavy Duty Conference and Expo in Long Beach, Calif. of Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Fuel Economy Long Beach Gasoline-Electric Engine 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

As you have unique packs and cells, it creates a challenge and an obstacle to having secondary ownership, to having some unique receipt models, service costs, and the list goes on and on. Where the markets develop, we can react very quickly and introduced a BEV, or plug-in, or diesel, or EcoBoost fairly rapidly. Mike Tinskey.

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Ford Batteries Battery Plug-in 231

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The eSprinter currently shares a platform with the diesel version, but in 2026 Mercedes will have a new “VAN.EA” platform as the basis for all of its future vans. This familiarity is particularly important in the commercial market, where drivers might swap back and forth between diesel and electric vans. Let’s dig in.

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Mercedes Electric Electrical DC 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

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. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2012

I-710 is a major north-south interstate freeway connecting the city of Long Beach to central Los Angeles. The I-710 Corridor has high levels of health risks related to high levels of diesel particulate emissions, traffic congestion, high truck volumes, high accident rates, and many design features in need of modernization.

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Los Angeles Emissions Long Beach Hybrid 252

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories found that hydrogen fuel cell barges may be both technically feasible and commercially attractive as a clean, quiet and efficient power source to provide electrical power for some types of vessels at berth or at anchorage. Credit: Pratt and Harris (2013). Click to enlarge. Oakland, Calif.;

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Fuel Hawaii Hydrogen Honolulu 191

Teslarati

MAY 4, 2022

The company wanted more electric options for various commercial activities, as it recently added a fleet of E-Transit vans from Ford to its fleet. “Together we’re helping Penske customers unlock the many benefits of electric by introducing more reliable, cost-effective, zero-emission trucks into their operations.”

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Fleet Power Powered Long Beach 105

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Q&A with Littelfuse’s Geoffrey Schwartz Construction vehicles are being electrified at a surprisingly rapid pace, as operators recognize not only the cost savings, but the advantages of silent, emission-free operation. The EPA requirements are that commercial vehicles will have to be 40% electric by 2035.

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Standards Market Volt Vehicles 72

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 Outreach will focus on commercial and public fleet owners and managers. tmdgroup, Inc. tmdgroup is based in Sacramento. Aemetis, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.

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California Los Angeles Transportation Sacramento 240

Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Electrifying commercial vehicles is a critical part of reducing emissions, so it’s frustrating that the pace of fleet electrification has been so slow. Viable commercial EVs have been around for years, but fleet operators insisted on conducting years-long pilots to prove their reliability. megawatt-hours of capacity.

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Charging Re-Charge Volvo Hydrogen 90

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? Plugging into the SoCal grid, in this case, SoCal Edison, this PHEV tug is significantly cleaner than its diesel burning brethren.

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Long Beach Los Angeles Lead Acid Electric 100