Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

The CEC formally approved the award at its monthly Business Meeting yesterday in Sacramento. Oberon will work with commercial partners to assess the technical feasibility and economics of converting renewable methanol, a by-product of the pulping process, into rDME and developing an associated rDME fueling infrastructure.

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Grant Renewable California Fuel 170

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

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The draft assessment identifies the status of battery-electric vehicle (BEV) technology that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions from Class 2b through Class 8 vehicles (gross vehicle weight of 8,501 pounds and up). Commercially available. ~40 3 models commercially available in US. Number in Service.

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Market Batteries Battery Sacramento 150

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. hours—at the cost of longer installations, more infrastructure work, and higher charging station costs.

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Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 132

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is a major development for a project that aims to improve the environmental performance of commercial vehicles using hydrocarbon fuels. These results show that the Opposed-Piston technology is able to meet our sustainable transportation goals, reducing criteria pollutants while also emitting less carbon dioxide. Earlier post.).

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EPA Diesel Emissions San Diego 508

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The release begins a public comment period culminating in a 16 December public hearing in Sacramento, California, at which the Board will consider adopting the proposed program. The cap-and-trade program gives sources flexibility to make the most cost-effective choices about when and how to reduce emissions.

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2015 Transportation Fuel Emissions 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

The award recipients are: Clean World Partners, LLC , will receive $6 million to increase the Sacramento BioRefinery’s capacity from 25 tons to 100 tons a day. The biorefinery is located at the Sacramento Recycling and Transfer Station on Fruitridge Road in Sacramento. World Partners is based in Sacramento County.

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California Los Angeles Transportation Sacramento 240

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

Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. A large coalition has formed around the issues of national security, combating climate change, saving on fuel costs and increasing business for American agriculture. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Irvine, CA.,

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Kansas City Minnesota Oklahoma Austin 100

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. need to have multiple technologies in the future and not be tied to one like we are to gasoline now.Some of them may not be successful in the commercial marketplace, but it is unlikely that we will just have one.

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Plug-in Toyota 2015 Plug 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

An overview of the current science of climate change in the draft includes an expanded discussion of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon. The discussion draft finds that California is on track to meet the AB 32 2020 goal of greenhouse gas reductions supported by its panoply of regulatory actions. Earlier post.).

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Climate Change 2020 Climate Transportation 220

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

These incentives help to pay the difference between the cost of alternative-fuel vehicles and conventional vehicles. City of Sacramento will receive $600,000 to install new liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling equipment and refurbish existing LNG equipment in the city’s corporate yard in the south area of the city.

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Green Vehicles California 2014 2013 295

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Oberon Fuels is the first company to announce plans to commercialize DME fuel production in North America.

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Volvo 2015 Production North America 270

Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

It’ll be mostly driven by the cost of gas. Perhaps he knows how good it feels to drive a quiet, powerful car that doesn’t pollute. government will cover some of the costs. Ghosn aims for Nissan’s electric cars, minus the battery, to cost as much as a standard car. That’s a given. billion.

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Nissan Japan United States Gasoline-Electric 124