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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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2018

DEP’s Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) Program offers funding for the purchase and use of alternative fuels and alternative fuel vehicles. Alternative Fuel Refueling Infrastructure: To assist in the costs to purchase and install refueling equipment for fleet and workplace, home or intermediary refueling.

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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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Ford Pro will collaborate with global sustainability leaders Ecolab to speed up the electrification of its vehicle fleet, with a goal of transitioning to a 100% fully electric commercial fleet by 2030. Ecolab’s journey towards 100% fleet electrification will begin in California with the conversion of its sales and service fleet to EVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In addition to the environmental considerations, heavy-duty electric trucks offer additional benefits such as reduced cost of ownership, as well as labor cost savings and increased safety by providing autonomous piloting in closed working environments.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Verizon purchased the new vans using rebates offered through the New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program—the largest purchase of new vans in the history of the program. And with the addition of these hybrid vehicles, our fleet is as efficient as ever as we continue to use less fuel year after year.

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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 5, 2015

This conversion approach recycles and reuses the chassis and other durable components, eliminating waste and extending the life of the truck. Through the Drive Clean Chicago program, CMAQ funds are paid directly to Orange EV to reduce customer purchase price.

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Thanks to your conversations with your electrician, your team will know ahead of time if your location requires upgrades and how much they will affect the overall cost of electrification. As for EV fleet vehicles , we recommend a combination of Level 2 chargers and DCFC to ensure they are always ready to go.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

Charged : When it comes to building an EV charging site, there are different kinds of installations: public charging; workplace charging; fleet charging. And then what we call fleet charging, which can be some of the hire car companies or Lyft or Uber, where it’s mainly destined for their own fleets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

The need for bringing down the costs of captured CO 2 and stimulating its potential uses, among them methanol production. Considering the need for diverse solutions for different types of transport fleets and the high likelihood of competition for fuels between all transport sectors. —Methanol report. Regulatory approach.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

Annual GHG emissions relative to BASE Scenario (BASE Scenario = 949 kt CO 2 e on a 100-year GWP basis) for differing London bus fleet technology options. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a comprehensive environmental cost–benefit analysis of near-term alternative bus technologies. Credit: ACS, Chong et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The nonpartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that federal policies to promote the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles, some of which also support other types of fuel-efficient vehicles, will have a total budgetary cost of about $7.5 billion through 2019.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Despite issues with the efficiency and cost of hydrogen as a fuel, FCEV remains in the conversation as a technology for long-haul trucking applications, where a greater range is required, though the viability of this technology is dependent on the production of low-cost green hydrogen. Electric Two-wheelers - 9 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2009

US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) last week introduced new legislation, co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that extends and increases tax credits for natural gas vehicle purchasing, refueling and manufacturing. Includes conversions and repowers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. The long-term goal of hydrogen production and delivery R&D is a high-volume hydrogen cost of. One renewable, low carbon pathway that has not been included in recent funding opportunities is biological biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

The combined science team from Cobalt and the NAWCWD focused on scaling and optimizing the dehydration chemistry for the conversion of bio n-butanol to 1-butene, followed by oligomerization of the bio-butene into jet fuel, based on the process developed at NAWCWD in China Lake, CA. Earlier post.). Alcohol to Jet. Wright, Benjamin G.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2024

He also admitted that Tesla’s vehicle purchasing process has become overcomplicated. “We’re in conversation with one automaker,” Musk said. Musk also noted that “Tesla will be operating the fleet,” seemingly referring to the company’s Robotaxi network.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The evaluation will consider the impacts, processes, market effects and costs of the program, and will help to guide future program efforts. million project to demonstrate vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology for an all-electric heavy duty non-tactical vehicle fleet at Los Angeles Air Force Base. Electricore Inc. Electricore Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Battery costs will fall, and the market will move well beyond early adopters. Subsidies and other financial incentives for PEV purchases will be phased out as vehicle costs decline, though some policies, such as feebates, may continue to persist. Maximum fleet share for PEVs appears to be limited due to two factors.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

One of the UK’s leading providers of cosmetic surgery has replaced its fleet with Proton GEN-2 ecoLogic dual fuel vehicles, the only vehicles available in the UK with a factory-fit LPG tank. With 15 clinics in the UK, each of the 12 vehicles in its fleet cover on average 100,000 miles per year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Incremental cost of dedicated alternative fuel vehicles. The DOE funds are to be used to pay for the incremental cost to purchase new OEM vehicles or the retrofit, conversion or repowering of new and/or used conventional vehicles. Upgrading or modifying private fueling stations to allow public and/or shared fleet access.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

The statement of task specifically asks how the on-road LDV fleet could reduce, relative to 2005, petroleum use by 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2050, and GHG emissions by 80% by 2050. The committee then analyzed the performance and cost impacts of the various options in different scenarios. —Douglas M.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The bill does not restrict who can hold an allowance, nor does it restrict the purchase, sale, or any other transactions involving allowances. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Monetary and injunctive penalties are associated with non-compliance.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The report hopefully points to the economics of EVs for fleet buyers; the conversion of the current $7,500 tax credit to benefit the consumer at the point-of-sale; the attraction of PEV attributes to some consumers; and potentially higher fuel prices to buoy consumer demand for PEVs. —One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 1, 2009

In June about 500 cars were placed in consumer and fleet hands in Los Angeles and New York and New Jersey for what BMW calls a " field trial." They produced a small fleet for the Munich Olympics in 1972. The car is essentially a high-end conversion. As with many conversions, space is sacrificed for the battery box.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The agency also recently presented a series of webinars on electrification for fleet operators. And in fact, we’ve had good conversations with bp pulse and with Shell Recharge in our service territory. Peter Westlake: A traditional fleet is not a key account for a utility. But EV fleets are new things that are happening.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

The EV to ICE conversion does not give you the cost structure and exact product that you want. We know that many of our customers fit the right profile for an EV purchase, for example coming from multi car households, range anxiety is less of an issue. The fuel efficiency offsets the higher upfront investment cost.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Test rides most always evoke a comment of future EV purchase. I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The van design and driver ergonomics will be specifically configured to meet the requirements of commercial vehicle fleet operators such as Royal Mail and DHL (both of whom have already provided initial input to the project). This project will deliver two prototype lightweight electric vans, with diesel range extender. 43 million (US$67.2

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Test rides most always evoke a comment of future EV purchase. I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

VIA was focused on fleet sales and a low cost of ownership. The math worked out (per VIA) that after eight years of use, fleet customers would save roughly a third on ownership costs. Things like fuel and maintenance costs were much less with the VTRUX setup. In 2014, that meant a $38,050 ($49,946 adj.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

The high cost of specialty precursor materials and the energy and capital-intensive nature of the conversion process are the principal contributors to the high cost of the end product. These standards demand a fleet-wide average fuel economy of 54.5 mpg by 2025. —Greg LeMond.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

Bruno today announced a new $10 million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and plans for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP). The 600 hybrid vehicles in the State fleet will be retrofitted to be PHEVs.

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Noodoe

JANUARY 7, 2022

Electric School Buses in the US are a hot conversation. To get a real view of what it’s all about, it’s worthwhile to take a look at why schools are starting to go electric, how an electric bus fleet actually operates, and who’s manufacturing electric school buses. Operation Cost. Any fleet has particular needs.

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Clean Car

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

There are commonly discussed fears when it comes to purchasing an EV: Range : There is a widespread fear that with an EV, drivers will get stuck somewhere with no charging ability. Charging : The time required to ‘refuel’ an EV, the costs, and availability of home chargers is often unclear. Electric vehicle fears.

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