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MAY 16, 2012

announced that its vehicle fleet was 16.6% The company has a goal of making the vehicle fleet 20% more efficient by 2020. Among the company’s initiatives to improve fuel economy are: Upcoming addition of 87 all-electric trucks to its green fleet bringing the all-electric vehicle count to 130. pick-up and delivery fleet.

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JUNE 28, 2011

As part of that, within the next two months FedEx Express will place 24 new all-electric vehicles into service, expanding to three new cities and more than doubling its fleet to 43 all-electric vehicles while growing the diversity of suppliers it uses for electric vehicles. Different vehicles are appropriate for different routes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

A European-based Vauxhall Vivaro van retrofitted with Protean Electric’s electric wheel motors ( earlier post )applied in a through-the-road plug-in hybrid system (TTRH) has shown a more than three-fold improvement in fuel economy in hybrid mode over a conventional Vivaro on the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). — Bob Purcell.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The goal of this paper is to assess the resulting CO 2 emissions, energy, and economic impacts of the EU CO 2 mandates, and compare them to an alternative scenario where vehicle emissions are part of an emission trading system designed to meet Europe’s announced economy-wide targets. —Paltsev et al. —Sergey Paltsev.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The addition of the 92 trucks increases the FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles by more than 50%, from 172 to 264. Tags: Conversions Fleets Hybrids. FedEx Corp. over the past six months.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

The bus—and several others nearing the 25,000-hour operating threshold—are part of a Transport for London fleet of 8 fuel cell buses, all powered by Ballard FCveloCity engines. This is equivalent to operating a bus on a 14-hour daily schedule, 5-days per week for 6.9

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

GKN Land Systems is ramping up production of its Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid technology for buses following successful trials in London and the start of UK production. This reduces the work done by the internal combustion engine, improving fuel economy by up to 25%, depending on the application. GKN Gyrodrive bus.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

The program is expected to expand to more shuttle vehicles in Dearborn—potentially increasing ridership as Ford tests the performance of the software and gathers fleet data. It also could offer a valuable service in emerging economies, where growth is outstripping development of the public transport infrastructure.

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JULY 21, 2013

Five Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell models ( earlier post ) are joining the London Hydrogen Network Expansion (LNHE) project. These fuel cell vehicles will be leased to key public and private fleet users in the capital. The ix35 Fuel Cell. Click to enlarge. Under the hood. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 6, 2010

Accumulated fuel consumption over Cenex drive cycle for standard London taxi (TX2) and DuoDrive-equipped TX2 (blue line). a developer and manufacture of axial flux motors, hybrid drive trains and generator sets ( earlier post ), will demonstrate a plug-in hybrid version of the iconic London Black Cab featuring EVO’s DuoDrive system at the.

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MAY 23, 2011

Buses powered by HybriDrive currently transport nearly two million passengers a day in cities across North America and the UK including Houston, London, Manchester, New York, Ottawa, Oxford, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and others. has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive to power its new fleet of Gillig Low Floor hybrid buses.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

The system is currently on trial with Sainsbury’s, delivering food across London, where it is already having a positive impact on air quality. Cooling is a huge problem faced by India, China and other fast-growing economies. They will develop strategies using novel low-carbon and zero-emission technologies and new policy approaches.

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APRIL 23, 2014

The tenth competition under the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform’s integrated delivery program (IDP), IDP10 is targeting the building of an integrated low-carbon-vehicle innovation chain, from the science base, through collaborative R&D to fleet-level demonstration. Earlier post. ). The project builds on an earlier TSB-funded project.

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JULY 8, 2015

In late April 2015, Geely Auto deployed a first-of-its-kind fleet of 150 methanol-fueled taxis in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang in cooperation with the municipal government. These strategies are closely linked to the economy. A reasonable pricing method has been set up for market regulations and economic development.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Why not rely on the order of May 2013, which identifies the vehicles in the fleet, according to their levels of emissions, for the implementation of the traffic restriction project in the capital? London, Berlin.) By adopting this plan 2020, Paris is the only city [of those] in Europe that have implemented traffic restrictions (e.g.,

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MARCH 28, 2022

Other major conclusions are: Technology acceleration is key as industry and aviation can only afford one fleet refresh between now and 2050. Failure to decarbonize may result in measures to restrict aviation, impacting the UK economy heavily. It is critical to achieve these dates to hit the net zero 2050 goal. million jobs in 2070.

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Green Cars News

JULY 23, 2009

A new £1.1bn plans to electrify the rail network on the London to Swansea and Liverpool to Manchester lines has been unveiled by the Government. Work will start immediately and for Liverpool-Manchester will be completed within four years and for London-Swansea within eight years, although stages in between will be completed earlier.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 12, 2009

The German carmaker says that the new model offers all the practicality and comfort of the new standard Golf Plus which went on sale in May, but with even greater economy and lower carbon dioxide emissions. mpg while producing 127 g/km; that’s an 11 per cent improvement in economy and a ten per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Although great strides have been made to improve the fuel economy of vehicles there is still an impact of about 4% due to the emissions control system. VIPER - Vehicle Integrated Powertrain Energy Recovery.

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Green Cars News

MAY 26, 2009

This has proved singularly ineffective in curbing freight demand as activity is heavily influenced by the economy. The FTA Cutting Carbon, Cutting Costs conference will take place on Thursday 18 June in London. Rachael Dillon, FTA Manager for Climate Change, said: “Until now freight transport has operated in a CO2 policy void.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Speaking at the launch of the IEA report in London, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said that “ An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change. Unlike other fossil fuels, natural gas plays a major role in most sectors of the modern economy—power generation, industrial, commercial and residential.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

Better Place launched a 90-day switchable-battery electric taxi in Tokyo in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Fleets Smart charging. Electric taxi driving through Ginza in Tokyo. Source: Better Place.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Oil giant Castrol commissioned a study to research the tipping point of EVs.The study examined the opinions of almost 10,000 consumers, fleet managers, and industry experts in eight of the world’s most significant EV markets. Now let us look into another study that is aimed at identifying the tipping points for widespread EV adoption.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. We then used results from a model of the global economy to allocate a portion of this global budget specifically to the U.S. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. fleet of light vehicles. Next, we turned to our model of the U.S

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