Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

A prototype plug-in hybrid retrofit kit is applied to a research vehicle’s rear wheels. A group at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), led by Dr. Charles Perry, who holds the Russell Chair of Manufacturing Excellence, has developed and demonstrated a proof-of-concept for a wheel motor plug-in hybrid retrofit kit for almost any car.

Kits 338

Kits Plug-in Plug Motor 338

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This funding will drive further innovation and expansion of Robotic Research’s commercial division, RR.AI , which is focused on delivering comprehensive autonomous driving solutions for commercial truck, bus, drayage and logistics vehicles.

Commercial 186

Commercial Kits Legal Environment 186

Electrek

MAY 9, 2022

Lightning eMotors announced a partnership with Perrone Robotics to integrate Level 2 and Level 4 autonomous capabilities into its medium-duty electric fleet vehicles. By utilizing Perrone’s TONY retrofit autonomy kit, Lightning eMotors can now offer Class 3-7 commercial EVs that can self-drive in a range of scenarios.

Fleet 98

Fleet Kits Commercial Range 98

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The repower kits are engineered by Lightning eMotors and will be installed by ABC technicians. By sourcing leading suppliers and manufacturers, we will provide a portfolio of offerings and price points that will enable our customers to accelerate their introduction of zero-emission vehicles into their fleets.

Companies 334

Companies Kits San Francisco Conversion 334

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This prototype is the first of the Volvo VNL fleet to be designed to operate with the Aurora Driver and represents a significant step as Aurora and Volvo begin building commercial L4 Class 8 trucks at scale for Volvo’s North American customers.

Volvo 417

Volvo Power Powered Kits 417

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

At the 69 th IAA Commercial Vehicles show, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is unveiling five new zero-emission vehicles:the I.D. The electric campaign is now gaining momentum at the 2018 IAA Commercial Vehicles show. BUZZ CARGO concept—the first commercial vehicle to be based on the new I.D. BUZZ CARGO.

Commercial 329

Commercial Vehicles Lithium Ion Batteries 329

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

This latest milestone underlines the safety and reliability of Inceptio’s full-stack autonomous driving solution, as well as its accelerating commercial uptake. Inceptio’s L3 autonomous trucks have been in commercial operation since late 2021.

Kits 195

Kits Fuel Economy China Commercial 195

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Already a strong supporter of alternative fuels, a large majority of Ozinga’s fleet of concrete trucks operate on compressed natural gas (CNG). V8 with CNG prep kit, set up for bi-fuel (gasoline/natural gas) operation. SoCalGas (of Sempra Energy) in California and Atlanta Gas Light in Georgia announced demonstration fleets in 2019.

Gas 415

Gas F-150 Fuel Energy 415

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2022

Germany is expected to be a major global market for zero-emission commercial vehicles in the coming years. Additionally, ORTEN management has extensive, long-standing customer relationships across Germany.

Germany 199

Germany Kits Fleet Diesel 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

UK-based Ashwoods Automotive , a provider of hybrid-electric vans and hybrid drive systems, is offering a hybrid drive retrofit kit for panel vans. Ashwoods is delivering more than 130 vehicles in Phase One, accounting for more than 68% of the total LCVPP fleet. The Ashwoods Hybrid Drive System Layout. Click to enlarge. million (US$2.8-million)

Kits 230

Kits Light Hybrid Citroen 230

Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2024

And Spot has gotten a lot better—a Spot robot takes a tumble on average once every 50 kilometers, even as the Spot fleet collectively walks enough to circle the Earth every three months. The Spot RL Researcher Kit is a collaboration between Boston Dynamics, Nvidia, and the AI Institute. But that’s changing.

Boston 106

Boston Kits Fleet Commercial 106

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The company anticipates entry into commercial service in 2025 with a certified retrofit conversion kit for existing ATR 72 and De Havilland Canada Dash-8 regional airliners and a green hydrogen fuel services offering. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

Hydrogen 397

Hydrogen Universal Financing Los Angeles 397

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

These achievements highlight the company’s ability to leverage existing infrastructure within the transportation sector, giving it a clear advantage to scale quickly and move to commercialization. The commencement of ClearFlame’s first pilot fleet trial with Beck’s, highlighting strong interest from commercial fleets.

Engine 273

Engine Manufacturer Fuel Indiana 273

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2017

has expanded its EDI PowerDrive solution portfolio to include additional models of all-electric drivetrains and full vehicle electrification kits for commercial vehicles spanning class 4 through 8. Class-4 Light-duty passenger and commercial fleet vehicles (sedans, SUV, MPV). Efficient Drivetrains, Inc.

All-Electric 150

All-Electric Kits Fleet Commercial 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the two fuel cell vans, we are expanding our understanding of the system and showing that the fuel cell can also be a suitable drive solution for light commercial vehicles. The technical basis for both vehicles is commercially available vans that run on electric power alone.

Fuel 195

Fuel Hydrogen Lithium Ion Kits 195

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

With a captive ridership of 26 million students, the number of vehicles in the nation’s school bus fleet is bigger than commercial buses, trains, and air travel services combined, reaching almost half a million buses.

Available 199

Available Kits Sustainable Transportation Cleaner 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Essam El-Hannouny, a principal mechanical engineer at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, won a Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Award from DOE to expand his research on how a renewable alcohol-based biofuel can serve as a dual fuel to help decarbonize locomotive engines. Earlier post.).

Carbon 259

Carbon Fuel Ozone Engine 259

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2014

The driverless vehicle is coming in both commercial and military applications. The AMAS common appliqué kit consists of the bi-wire active safety kit and the autonomy kit. The AMAS common appliqué kit consists of the bi-wire active safety kit and the autonomy kit.

South Carolina 246

South Carolina Kits Mariner Vehicles 246

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

Lightning eMotors, a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. —Roman Cornell, president and chief commercial officer of ABC Companies.

All-Electric 395

All-Electric Companies Electric Electrical 395

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2020

Karma’s new EREV E-Flex Van platform provides the ability to have flexible all-electric range up to 200 miles, and combined range of over 400 miles depending upon configurations and commercial applications.

Karma 221

Karma Extended Range Range Kits 221

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is currently going through the final phase of ID. Buzz prototype testing; the pre-production fleet is currently touring Europe. —Kai Grünitz, Head of Vehicle Development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The new model line is based on the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB).

Europe 432

Europe Lithium Ion Charging Commercial 432

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In addition to producing a new, cost-effective all-electric conversion kit, the project will deliver a blueprint for converting up to three UPS vehicles a day. This could lead to the conversion of up to 1,500 UPS delivery trucks, which is about 66% of UPS’s NYC fleet, operating in New York City by 2022. Click to enlarge.

Convert 170

Convert New York City Motor Motors 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

The CEC grant funds are to accelerate manufacturing of Wrightspeed’s Route retrofit powertrain for the medium-duty commercial fleet market ( earlier post ). Wrightspeed made its first conversion kit for the Isuzu NPR. The system is therefore lighter, cheaper, and more efficient.

Grant 236

Grant Commercial Range San Jose 236

Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

New Delhi: Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, has announced its ‘Customer Care Mahotsav’, a comprehensive customer engagement program for commercial vehicle customers. Tata Motors also provides Fleet Edge – a connected vehicle platform powered by data analytics.

Motor 52

Motor Motors Motoring Auto 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This technology recently entered commercial service in the UK with Chiltern Railways on HybridFLEX trains, supplied by Porterbrook, which reduce CO 2 emissions by up to 25%. From next year it plans to have conversion kits available which enable mtu Series 4000 engines to run on 100% hydrogen.

Fuel 150

Fuel Engine Hydrogen Hybrid 150

Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2014

Those are the words of Echo Automotive chairman Jason Plotke, whose company aims to make bolt-on hybrid solutions for existing commercial vehicles a reality. Speaking to Charged EVs, Plotke says he''s explaining very clearly the advantages of running the company''s electrification kits to.'

Hybrid 107

Hybrid Plug-in Kits Fleet 107

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Wrightspeed, the leading manufacturer of range-extended electric vehicle (REV) powertrains for heavy-duty applications, and The Ratto Group, a Santa Rosa, California-based refuse, yard waste and recycling collection and processing company, unveiled the first commercial application of a range-extended electric refuse truck. Earlier post.)

Range 150

Range Fleet Waste Electric 150

Plug In India

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One was the conversion kit by Hyderabad based e-Trio, and the other was Pune based Northway Motorsports. Only when a kit provider has successfully got certified can they start selling the kit in the market. Challenges for Kit Makers Now here is the big limitation kit providers face. What about the original OEM?

Conversion 52

Conversion India Electric Cars Kits 52

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Operators of commercial vans have fewer options for fuel efficiency than individual buyers of passenger cars, but luckily, there''s always the aftermarket. Coca-Cola has recently been operating a fleet of Chevrolet Express 3500 vans retrofitted with hybrid kits from XL Hybrids--and says it''s found them satisfactory so far.

Hybrid 125

Hybrid Kits Gas Chevrolet 125

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Michelin and Siemens, in cooperation with research partners at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, are launching a project to demonstrate that the total cost of electric vehicles can be less than that of a conventional combustion-engined car.

Cost Of 236

Cost Of Engine Kits Gasoline-Electric 236

Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

The automaker has talked on and off about releasing a software development kit (SDK) to create a full third-party app ecosystem operating with its vehicles, which have giant touchscreens and connectivity. But now Tesla has officially launched an API geared toward fleet management back in October.

Solar 52

Solar Tesla Kits Energy Storage 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Opel has presented a specially-equipped Ampera extended range electric vehicle to the Technical Institute Karlsruhe (KIT), marking the beginning of a field trial in the research project iZEUS (intelligent Zero Emission Urban System) in Stuttgart. Connected vehicles Electric (Battery) Smart charging Smart Grid'

Recharge 210

Recharge Grid Kits Concept 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertrain used to repower light commercial vehicles up to 26,000 GVW ( earlier post ), has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc. , Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

Li-ion 218

Li-ion Electrical Storage Lithium Ion Hybrid 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

XL Hybrids , a startup that offers a hybrid conversion system for large fleet vehicles such as vans or Lincoln Town Cars, has raised $2 million in new funding and signed an agreement with Ashwoods Automotive in the UK, the producers of the retrofit kit. Boston Globe. Earlier post.).

Conversion 199

Conversion Hybrid Companies Kits 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Since the beginning of the year, GM has entered into a strategic alliance with ride-sharing company Lyft ( earlier post ); formed Maven, its personal mobility brand for car-sharing fleets in many US cities ( earlier post ), and established a separate unit for autonomous vehicle development ( earlier post ).

GM 150

GM San Francisco Vehicles Kits 150

Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Although the tires weigh slightly more than standard air-filled tires, vehicles don’t need to be equipped with spares, jacks, repair kits, or tire-pressure sensors. They’re fitting about 50 vehicles in each of those fleets with Uptis tires, Roget explained, and the idea will be to capture as much data as possible.

Future 52

Future Las Vegas South Carolina GM 52

Plug In India

APRIL 16, 2021

By Atul Gopal We had an opportunity to visit Nothway Motorsports to check out their new electric car conversion kit. For a kitted car to handle well, you also need to understand suspensions. Unlike CNG kits, EV kits dont eat up the boot space. Which means that you can get the kitting done by a good local mechanic.

Suzuki 89

Suzuki Conversion Electric Cars Kits 89