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AUGUST 19, 2010

Engine room of a Foss hybrid tug. Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of Long Beach. tons of diesel particulate matter.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

km) stretch of highway after installing a catenary system for electric and hybrid trucks in the vicinity of the largest US ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. On the road, E-trucks equipped with hybrid drive and smart current collectors will be supplied with electricity from catenaries, offering local zero-emission operation.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

Foss Maritime Company and Aspin Kemp & Associates (AKA) with their technology partner XeroPoint Energy, have received US patent protection for their hybrid propulsion and energy management system. The award-winning hybrid technology draws energy from various sources to optimize system operations across a wide range of propulsive load demands.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

A study of a hybrid tugboat, funded by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and conducted by UC Riverside, found that when compared with a conventional diesel-powered version, a hybrid tugboat can reduce emissions of PM 2.5 days) was collected on the hybrid tug operating without batteries to. Click to enlarge.

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Pollution Emissions Hybrid Los Angeles 247

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MARCH 11, 2013

Scania’s powertrain technology with a hybrid powertrain can be supplemented by electrical transmission through a line in the air (conduction) or powered through the road surface (induction), thus becoming completely electrically powered on electrified road sections. The eHighway. Power supply via catenary lines and regenerative braking.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The projects range from electric locomotives, trucks and refrigeration trailers at railyards in Stockton and San Bernardino, to a hybrid tugboat and electric cranes and forklifts at the Port of Long Beach. Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Delivery Van Deployment: The Center for Transportation and the Environment will receive $4.3

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MAY 8, 2012

Currently being tested in Germany, pilot projects are already being planned for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to connect to cargo centers. This technology compliments Siemens’ ELFA portfolio of complete hybrid drive system. Once the truck leaves the lines, it switches back to diesel.

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Los Angeles Future Long Beach Diesel 268

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APRIL 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting a project for the hybridization of an existing marine vessel for an award of up to $1,000,000. Staff estimated that direct and secondary diesel PM from harbor craft is responsible for about 90 premature deaths per year. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Ports and Marine.

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Mariner California Hybrid Los Angeles 170

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JANUARY 10, 2018

The hybrid drive system manages the power from the fuel cell to and from the batteries, as well as the traction motors and other components, such as the electrified power steering and brake air compressor. TTSI) at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

The Air Resources Board has selected four projects to demonstrate advanced clean engine technologies that reduce smog-forming and diesel soot emissions. Smog abatement, vehicle and vessel registration fees pay for these programs.

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Los Angeles Clean Cleaning Long Beach 170

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced Vision Industries’ fuel cell plug-in hybrid Class 8 short haul truck, Tyrano, at the State Capitol building in Sacramento on 20 October. Vision says that the Tyrano is 35% cheaper to operate than current diesel powered trucks and 50% cheaper than liquefied natural gas.

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Sacramento Los Angeles Plug-in Industrial 186

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Enova brought its Ze (zero emissions) commercialized all-electric step-van to the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach. 48 per mile in a comparable diesel vehicle. Enova is supplying drive systems to Smith Electric Vehicles, and recently announced a major contract with First Auto Works (FAW) in China for hybrid buses.

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APRIL 15, 2009

Vision designed the Tyrano to replace short haul diesel trucks operating in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Tyrano is to be more powerful and less expensive to operate than current diesel or natural gas trucks and will exempt the truckers from the $70/container port tariff. Vision Industries Corp. ’s

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2011

The Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) exposition rolled into Long Beach, California, last week to examine options available right now to use alternative fuels to their optimal advantage.

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Alternative Fuels Long Beach Fuel Clean 87

Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2009

It’s been a long time coming, but we have finally achieved the first “cold ironing&# of a tanker in the Port of Long Beach. Normally, these engines crank out massive amounts of pollution, equal to “a day’s worth of driving by 187,000 cars,&# according to estimates by the Port of Long Beach.

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Plug-in Long Beach Plug Pollution 124

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MAY 4, 2017

ARB made the announcement at the annual Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Long Beach. Cars: 115,000 Light-duty ZEVs and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles), comprising 71,000 BEVs; 43,000 PHEVs and 1,000 FCEVs. Heavy-duty trucks: 46 class 7+8 heavy duty zero-emission trucks.

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California Sale Long Beach Climate 150

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Prior to his current position, Tinskey led Ford’s product planning and product management activities for hybrids and for developing and implementing the electric vehicle strategy announced last January ( earlier post ). Currently, Ford has four full hybrids on the market. After 11 years, hybrids have a 0.8% Mike Tinskey.

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MAY 24, 2023

Beginning in 2024 the cars will be powered by hybrid engines. John and Jim A conventional gasoline or diesel generator would be too loud and produce unpleasant exhaust, making client entertaining difficult, if not impossible. Many of the team transporters will also be using biofuels. We are different from them.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Peter Miller, Director of Ricardo’s Electrical/Electronic Engineering efforts, provided an overview of the project at the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC 2009) in Long Beach. Ricardo applied its toolkit to designing a replacement pack for the Efficient-C vehicle—a full diesel hybrid ( earlier post ).

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Design Li-ion Batteries Battery 199

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

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JULY 12, 2012

I-710 is a major north-south interstate freeway connecting the city of Long Beach to central Los Angeles. The I-710 Corridor has high levels of health risks related to high levels of diesel particulate emissions, traffic congestion, high truck volumes, high accident rates, and many design features in need of modernization.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

The ZECAP Project will validate the commercial viability of zero-emission fuel cell electric hybrid yard trucks operating in a demanding, real-world cargo-handling application. The project will develop, validate, and deploy two Capacity TJ9000 fuel cell electric hybrid yard trucks at the Port of Los Angeles in California.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The additional funding will cover demonstration projects of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric and range-extended hybrid electric/natural gas heavy-duty drayage trucks operating at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The fuel produced will be enough to replace 56,000 gallons of conventional diesel.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? Plugging into the SoCal grid, in this case, SoCal Edison, this PHEV tug is significantly cleaner than its diesel burning brethren.

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Long Beach Los Angeles Lead Acid Electric 100

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Probably one of the fastest things out there going electric is underground mining, because one of the big problems is, when you have diesel equipment down in a mine, how do you get all the fumes out? We’re also seeing interest for hybrids based on digestive materials. I don’t come home smelling like diesel.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California. In April 2011, Audi introduced a four-seat A3 e-tron concept plug-in hybrid vehicle in Shanghai. A3 e-tron BEV. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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