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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This is because hydrogen trucks have a decisive disadvantage: only about a quarter of the output energy flows into the drive, three quarters is lost through conversion losses. They exceed the purchase costs many times over. With the e-truck, the ratio is reversed.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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. The voucher program can reduce the upfront cost of advanced zero-emission fleet vehicles by 30 to 70 percent.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The awarded AFIG grants will help pay for the conversion or purchase of 351 natural gas vehicles and 337 propane vehicles weighing less than 14,000 pounds. Grant requests can be no more than 50% of the incremental purchase or retrofit 10 January 2014, and will be awarded in the spring.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It was a little surprising to find consumer sentiment about self-driving vehicles and electrification has stayed flat, but it shows that consumers are really steadfast in their opinions about new mobility technologies right now, regardless of how close they are to being available for purchase.

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2019

One of the other hurdles we had to get over was cost. The purchase price of this tug is significant, at roughly double that of a diesel tug, and that is an important consideration for a business that needs to make a profit. Fortunately, the cost of operating an electric tug is less than a third of the cost of running a diesel tug.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Survey results also showed that 59% of 18-34 year old drivers said that if the cost of diesel fuel was on par with gasoline, they would purchase a diesel-powered vehicle. Conversely, only 39% of those 45+ said they would purchase a diesel car over a gas car if there was fuel price parity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This will enable Londoners to benefit from discounts on subscriptions, rentals and purchases of bicycles, e-bikes, cargo bikes, cars and vans from companies including Brompton, Enterprise and Santander Cycles. Disabled people can also apply for a nominated driver who lives at a different address if they do not drive themselves.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. In addition, Quantum’s tanks maximize on board storage capacity resulting in greater driving range.

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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 9, 2013

has purchased 35 Class 8 Volvo trucks that operate on compressed natural gas (CNG). The conversion to natural gas will reduce the fleet’s annual oil consumption by more than 1 million gallons and result in 1,300 fewer tons of greenhouse gas emissions. SUPERVALU INC. The fleet, which operates out of SUPERVALU’s Mechanicsville, Va.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The complex physical and chemical interactions between these components prevent enzymes from readily accessing the microfibrillar cellulose during the saccharification stage of its conversion into biofuel. As a result of this recalcitrance, a pretreatment stage is needed to maximise hydrolysis of cell wall sugars into their monomeric form.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Ecolab’s journey towards 100% fleet electrification will begin in California with the conversion of its sales and service fleet to EVs. Ecolab can potentially save roughly 50% in annual fuel costs per 2023 F-150 Lightning Pro truck, a savings of approximately $1,400 in fuel per vehicle each year.

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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. The rebate reduces the incremental costs of purchasing advanced alternative fuel technology heavy-duty trucks and buses by up to 80%.

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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. Getting the right values directly affects consumer purchases and calculations, as CO 2 emission levels are frequently used by authorities to define the taxes to be paid by the vehicle owner. —Methanol report.

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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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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. Natural gas to fuel conversion processes.

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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 —“Effects of Federal Tax Credits for the Purchase of.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 18, 2009

One of the downsides of a home-EV conversion is that most of them don't have air conditioning. The conversion vehicle I purchased is dark metallic blue, which get's really hot inside, even on a mild day in the sun. So I called a bunch of different car painting places to determine the cost of painting the car white.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The Fleet Roadmap is geared toward demonstrating targeted opportunities in which the lower operating costs of electric drive vehicles, coupled with the operational norms of commercial and government fleets, could make adoption of grid-electric vehicles (GEVs)—i.e., Last week, GE announced plans to purchase 25,000 GEVs by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A key barrier to achieving RFS2 is the high cost of producing biofuels compared to petroleum-based fuels and the large capital investments required to put billions of gallons of production capacity in place. Resolving most of the barriers is necessary to achieving RFS2, and many of them are interrelated as illustrated by the examples below.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Standardizing PEV batteries could reduce the purchase and ownership costs of PEVS, as well as addressing additional consumer issues such as maintenance and safety. The conversion process will also produce biochar, a soil amendment that can be used for agricultural purposes.

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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 31, 2017

A 5% blend of hydrogen in SoCalGas’ natural gas system would provide storage capacity equivalent to $130 billion worth of battery systems if purchased at the US Department of Energy future cost of $200 per kilowatt hour.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings available today, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte. range, convenience to charge and purchase price of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

In its comments, Tesla noted that its goal of producing a mass market electric car in approximately three years provides an opportunity to leverage its projected demand for lithium-ion batteries to reduce their cost faster than previously thought possible. The interest rate, conversion rate and other terms of the notes are to be determined.

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Teslarati

JULY 30, 2022

There have been many vehicles that I have purchased and sold in a short period of time. The Tesla always comes up in conversation. “One reason is the cost of ownership alone,” he said. “I ABSOLUTELY would encourage others to purchase an EV. ” Our friendship has spanned many years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. The straightforward conversion of isobutanol into butenes is a fundamentally important process that enables isobutanol to be used as a building block chemical in multiple markets.

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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.

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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

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

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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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. Especially in the case of Direct Current Fast Chargers (DCFCs), a large increase in energy consumption can lead to a new transformer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To answer this question, we gathered data on (i) the quantity and location of emissions released from tailpipes and from upstream processes to produce and operate vehicles, (ii) the externality costs of damages caused by the release of these emissions, and (iii) estimates of externalities and other costs to the US associated with oil consumption.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

So what we’re trying to do is create a scalable and modular architecture for our clients, where they can have more availability for their customers and less cost. For higher-powered projects we make a separation between the rectification unit, which is the AC-to-DC conversion, then a DC microgrid, and then the DC chargers.

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