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thyssenkrupp pushed the truck hard over this demo and now plans to integrate Semi into their fleet. Plans are now underway to begin adding electric Semis to its fleet as part of a wider emissions-reduction effort. .” Working with our suppliers and logistics partners to electrify Tesla’s supply chain.
In addition to testing the Tesla Semi, the company operates a small fleet of EVs, including nine electric yard tractors, two electric forklifts, and two Class 6 electric straight trucks. It must meet or exceed the performance and total cost of ownership targets of our most efficient diesel units.
Following the thyssenkrupp demo, the supply chain company has also begun integrating the Semi into its fleet, and Priestley suggests that more are still to come: Working with our suppliers and logistics partners to electrify Tesla’s supply chain. With lower cost and higher reliability, it just makes sense.
Tesla has also been accelerating production of the upgraded Model Y at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas , with drone footage from a few weeks ago showing massive fleets of the SUV in the outbound lot. New Tesla Model Y first impressions after demo drive The post Tesla starts Model Y ‘Launch Edition’ deliveries in the U.S.
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The company has begun customer deliveries of its P7-C electric demo trucks, and fleet heavyweights including Penske and U-Haul are evaluating its vehicles. Charged spoke with Dr. Peter Dow, REE Automotives VP of Engineering. Charged : What are some of the advantages of your modular design concept?
But we spend just as much time developing the monitoring software with the monthly software demos so we can make sure that were always evolving our software to be better and stay at 99%. We won a prize last yearthe Outstanding Demo Partnership awardat the 2024 E-Mobility Awards by Consolidated Edison for high reliability of the project.
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XL Fleet announced that Essential Utilities, Inc. Essential, headquartered in Bryn Mawr, PA, deploys a fleet of approximately 2,500 of these vehicles across 10 states. —Charles Stevenson, Vice President of Fleet Operations at Essential.
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Pioneering methods to accelerate electric fleet adoption, AMPLY Power will demonstrate and document its Charging-as-a-Service approach for an all-electric school bus fleet in New York City. As the electric utility account holder for its fleet customers, AMPLY Power provides comprehensive end-to-end services to fleet operators.
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Doing so would give energy flexibility to a fleet owner’s business, and help better manage on-site generation such as solar power. Scaling the technology to a fleet of 50 trucks gives you megawatt-scale energy storage,” noted ORNL’s Omer Onar, who led the technical team’s effort at the lab.
It will also help set the stage for possible large-scale deployments at other clean energy centers in Constellation’s fleet that would couple clean hydrogen production with storage and other on-site uses. This accomplishment tangibly demonstrates that our nation’s existing reactor fleet can produce clean hydrogen today.
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Magna E-Car Systems has developed a demonstration fleet of 9 electric vehicles based on the Chevrolet Equinox crossover. The Equinox EV fleet is propelled by Magna E-Car Systems’ electric drive system, featuring a 105 kW maximum motor and a 33 kWh battery pack.
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This demo, the largest to date, is a major milestone for us. When this ship arrives in Port Hueneme, we will be a giant step closer to powering our Great Green Fleet and demonstrating progress toward a sustainable energy future. More than 50 percent of our fuel goes to maritime use.
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Plus is also applying the Level 4 technology used in the driverless demo to deploy a commercial driver-in product for semi trucks called PlusDrive. Customers of PlusDrive include some of the world’s largest fleets. Plus expects to launch pilot operations of a fully driverless truck for use in a dedicated environment in 2022.
The post Lightning eMotors wants to offer wireless EV fleet charging after 2023 demos appeared first on Electrek. The company announced a collaboration with wireless charging provider HEVO Inc. to implement a program that demonstrates the technology on a Lightning eMotors EV.
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The demonstration fleet vehicles will be delivered to CATARC during April. GM and CATARC will form a joint working team that will be responsible for gathering feedback from Volt demonstration fleet usage to better target discussions and actions to support new energy vehicle policy in China.
TTC New Flyer Industries XE40 Xcelsior electric demo bus. The TTC’s electric bus program aims to transform mobility in Toronto with a 100% zero-emission bus fleet by 2040, which includes a commitment to purchase only zero-emission buses by 2025.
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Autonomous driving Fleets Heavy-duty' Autonomy-enabled vehicles are expected to reduce accidents while augmenting the warfighter and increasing capabilities by creating greater stand-off distance from danger; making supply distribution safer and more efficient; and providing the flexibility to adapt to changing and evolving threats.
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In the next development phase, the EPRI team will be integrating the PEV communications platform with residential, fleet, and commercial facility energy management systems. This will enable testing of its ability to manage local control scenarios such as demand management for commercial and industrial consumers.
Tesla Full Self-Driving capability demo in Austin FSD capability features use vision neural networks to perceive & understand the world, just like humans do. Additionally, it is interesting to see the company put out a video of a hands-free demo of the FSD suite, considering it does not support this capability with consumer vehicles.
We anticipate that medium and heavy-duty fleets are going to be one of the earliest and most important markets for this technology. Naoki Ota, COO for EnerDel. The project was initiated last April by Hokuriku Electric Power Company, which is headquartered in Toyama, in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Over the past six months, Motiv Power Systems , an electric drive power control system provider ( earlier post ), has successfully run its demo all-electric bus on two different off-the-shelf battery types, demonstrating the universal battery compatibility of its electric Powertrain Control System (ePCS).
The pilot project led by Omnitek Engineering includes American Strategic Group, trucking fleets and related service providers. Seattle, Washington-based ASG is developing a regional network of CNG refueling facilities optimized to meet the needs of heavy-duty truck fleets.
Chrysler Group LLC, working in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), will deliver 10 demonstration fleet Ram 1500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) pickup trucks to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Earlier post.). The grant, totaling $48 million from DOE and $49.4
One of the joint program’s aims is to reduce total cost of ownership, thereby easing the transition to electric for fleets. It also helps fleets meet ever-increasing demands facing the industry, including increased consumer deliveries and continued driver shortages.
Combined with matching funding from other public and private entities in California, the total project funding will be more than $9M and result in an eight bus demonstration fleet deployed in California by 2019.
However, because Foothill Transit operates its BEB and CNG bus fleets differently, the efficiency results presented are not an apples-to-apples comparison. The overall bus miles between roadcalls (MBRC) for the electric fleet decreased from more than 9,000 during the period of the first report to just over 6,000. kWh per mile—17.35
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