Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The analysis in the EC roadmap concludes that fleet adoption of grid-electric vehicles (PHEVs and EVs) could lead to a cumulative 200,000 units on the road by 2015. The report includes a detailed examination of commercial and government fleets, highlighting common practices that could make them significant early adopters of GEVs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

A Ford-led consortium is testing hydrogen fuel cell technology on the E-Transit in a small UK-based prototype fleet developed by Ford Pro. A test fleet of eight hydrogen fuel cell Ford E-Transits will run for six-month periods over the three-year project to 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2014

EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) is soliciting proposals ( EPA-OAR-OTAQ-14-02 ) that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced by diesel engines and diesel emissions exposure, from fleets operating at marine and inland water ports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2013

has added 1,900 lightweight, composite-body Reach vehicles from Spartan Motors , a division of Utilimaster, to its fleet. liter Isuzu diesel engine, demonstrates a 35% fuel efficiency improvement over traditional vehicles in the FedEx Express fleet. FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp. The Reach van, with its four-cylinder, 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1 to 4 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), unveiled its third-generation XL3 product release for model year 2014 vehicles. This helps meet growing customer demand for a drop-in solution to reduce fuel costs without reliance on subsidies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

EcoDual , LLC, a provider of dual fuel natural gas conversion systems for heavy-duty diesel trucks, has achieved US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance for installing its systems on 2004 to 2009 Cummins ISX engines. The systems are easily installed at the fleet owner’s site and are fully warranted.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Together with Lightning eMotors, formerly known as Lightning Systems, the partners have created a five-step process for identifying, assessing and converting a wide range of “donor” diesel coach models that fit the criteria for fast-track battery electric conversion. —Roman Cornell.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This new battery technology and other upgrades give them the range, power and features at the price they need to scale up their electric fleets. Lightning eMotors offers comprehensive leasing plans, which allow fleets to see total-cost-of-ownership savings from lower energy and maintenance costs, starting on day one of the lease.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

million compressed natural gas conversion contract. The conversion order is for a fleet of beverage and milk delivery vehicles owned and operated by Lima-based Leche Gloria, S.A. The conversion costs are being offset by GNC Energia charging a higher market rate for natural gas, but at a rate still below the cost of diesel fuel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

With 2,473 AGC train cars in operation today, the AGC is the largest regional fleet operated in France. The effort is part of France’s strategy to eventually phase diesel power out of its national rail fleet. It also reduces the cost of energy consumption, due to lower electricity costs compared to diesel-fueled trains.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

into locally produced, renewable hydrogen for Hyzon’s fleet of zero-emission commercial vehicles. Our process eliminates waste from going into the landfill, and together with HYZON’s fleets will eliminate emissions pollution. Raven can also easily process natural and renewable gases alone or combined with solid waste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

While compressed natural gas (CNG) will play a role, particularly for high-mileage fleets, the report suggests that the chemical conversion of gas into some form of liquid fuel may be the best pathway to significant market penetration. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Tcf/year, equivalent to 1.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

has introduced a new composite compressed natural gas (CNG) tank targeting the expanding commercial natural gas fleets including refuse truck applications. President Obama has proposed a credit equivalent of 50 percent of the extra cost of purchasing a natural gas-powered truck compared with one that runs on diesel or gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It is hoped the technology will be rolled out to bus fleets across the country and further afield. The dual-fuel vehicle is a standard Optare Solo single-deck diesel midibus from the Anglian Bus fleet. In particular, the cost of conversion of a diesel bus to dual-fuel use is a small fraction of the cost of a new natural gas bus.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

A well-established downstream syngas-to-synfuel conversion process, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, converts the syngas to liquid synfuel for a total projected cost of less than $4/gallon. Constellation Energy Generation will improve operational efficiency and flexibility of the current fleet of nuclear reactors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Cool Planet Energy Systems projects that using its patented mechanical process and novel scaling approach ( earlier post ), it will be able to produce high-octane carbon-negative (with the use of its bio-char byproduct) renewable gasoline at a cost of $1.50 per gallon, without the need for government subsidies. earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

EPA will fund: Verified Exhaust Control Technologies: up to 100% of the cost of eligible verified exhaust control technologies. Verified/Certified Engine Upgrades: up to 40% of the cost (labor and equipment) of eligible engine upgrades. Certified Engine Repower: up to 40% of the cost (labor and equipment) of an eligible engine repower.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, have entered into a strategic alliance to accelerate the conversion of heavy-duty trucking fleets from diesel to cleaner-burning, less-expensive natural gas. GE Capital’s Transportation Finance business and Clean Energy Fuels Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Smith said its decision to locate a facility in Chicago was influenced by the Mayor’s innovative voucher system created to accelerate the conversion from diesel to zero-emission, all-electric commercial vehicles, the large number of fleets interested in vehicle electrification, and the development incentives made available to Smith.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

We are already busy creating new charging options for customers, whether they are residential customers or companies and government agencies with large vehicle fleets. Fleet infrastructure programs help public transit agencies and fleet operators plan for and implement charging solutions that drive their transition to electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

SafeAI, a global leader in autonomous heavy equipment, announced a collaboration with Siemens today to create an autonomous, zero emission heavy vehicle fleet for Obayashi Corporation. The collaboration will continue scaling across the entire fleet over a three year period.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland, Alstom, Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH (NASA) and Rolls-Royce plan to implement jointly a new hybrid drive solution on Abellio’s fleet of Coradia Lint diesel trains. Subsequent conversion of the entire fleet of 54 Coradia Lint vehicles is under consideration.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The combined, complementary expertise of Ballard and QUANTRON enables broader customer access to zero emissions fuel cell electric trucks without compromising on range, payload, vehicle utilization or total cost of ownership. In Europe, various government subsidies and incentives will be available to vehicle fleet operators.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Pennsylvania has awarded more than $3 million in Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIG) to 33 companies, counties and organizations making the switch to compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), or propane for medium to light-weight fleet vehicles.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

During their talk , Priestley highlighted that Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the baseline for every decision made by the Tesla Semi team. The PepsiCo manager, for his part, explained that the adoption of the Tesla Semi in the company’s fleet has been a lot smoother than he expected.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) is soliciting proposals ( EPA-OAR-OTAQ-14-07 ) that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced by diesel engines and diesel emissions exposure, from fleets operating at marine and inland water ports located in areas of poor air quality.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions. NYSERDA is providing $500,000 in funding to develop and test the conversion system. 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.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) began accepting applications 1 December for its Natural Gas Vehicle Grant program, which will provide up to $20 milli on over the next three years to help pay for the incremental purchase and conversion costs of heavy-duty natural gas fleet vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2014

We believe that progressive fleet operators with GHG reduction commitments will urge OEM suppliers to put Celerity to the test. With Celerity, Hydrogenics said it can offer previously-unavailable installation options that directly reduce the cost of vehicle ownership. —Joe Cargnelli, CTO of Hydrogenics.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Australian manufacturer Roev plans to do just that from 2023 by converting Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers to electric, with conversions priced from $47,990. It means fleet buyers can give soon-to-be-retired vehicles a new lease on life with a zero emissions electric drivetrain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

The fleet of 40kWh Nissan LEAFs, which can travel up to 168 miles on a single charge and are manufactured in Sunderland, will be offered to drivers as part of Uber’s Clean Air Plan. Through the Clean Air Plan, drivers will on average save £4,500, depending on the miles they’ve driven, off the cost of switching to an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Most of the vehicles will be small passenger cars, placed into households and commercial and government fleets. used in freight fleets. The trial will also look at electric two-wheelers , as well as include some locally manufactured electric vehicle conversions. Some electric light commercial vehicles will be. electric car.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2023

This collaboration aims to electrify and decarbonize vocational fleets safely, making significant progress towards electrification growth and net-zero emissions goals. It can be adapted to new heavy-duty vocational trucks as well as existing fleets. Effenco’s Hybrid Electric system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

to reach just over 3 million vehicles (including conversions) by 2015. Despite growth of the market as a whole, the US NGV market is expected to remain dominated by fleet sales to government and commercial customers (89% of sales in 2015). Tags: Conversions LNG Market Background Natural Gas. million in 2008. Energy security.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2022

Hyzon’s Repower program allows customers to exchange their used diesel trucks for conversion to fuel cell electric using Hyzon’s proprietary fuel cell technology. HVIP, an incentive program administered by national clean transportation consortium CALSTART, provides subsidies to reduce the incremental cost of clean commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a new 10-year contract to build and operate two new CNG fueling stations and sell fuel to the company’s growing CNG taxi fleet. million in grant funding from the City of Chicago and the Department of Energy to help defer the costs of station construction and acquiring new CNG taxi vehicles. Clean Energy also owns BAF Technologies, Inc.

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