Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ecology, a transportation and logistics company in California, has switched its fleet of more than 600 trucks to run on Neste MY Renewable Diesel and is reporting cleaner fuel filters, fewer maintenance problems and reductions in tailpipe emissions. Neste MY Renewable Diesel reduced climate emissions by 8.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. In 2017, 87% of all regulated fleets complied with the regulation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2018

million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be combined with $379,516 in matching funds from CARB, and $1,280,000 in cost-shared funds from participating fleets. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

A Foss Maritime Company’ Green Assist hybrid tug ( earlier post ) has joined the Foss fleet for the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California. To help defray the added costs of development and construction of the first hybrid tug, both the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles contributed funding.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

That rule has achieved an 80% reduction in harmful emissions from more than 13,000 vessel visits since 2014. The updated rule adds new vessel categories which will be required to control pollution when they run auxiliary engines or auxiliary boilers (for most tanker vessels) while docked.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. The fleet also failed to reduce the auxiliary engine power generation by the required 50%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

XL Hybrids TYs7Oafol48Kkc8KJgZoTHgMu0w8LYSbRdYOj2VdwnuKwa">announced new fleet customers who intend to purchase its XLP plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) upfit solution for Ford F-150 pickup trucks. The Fleet-Ready technology is the industry’s first ship-thru upfit on half-ton pickup trucks from a leading OEM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

A plug-in parallel hybrid electric terminal tractor used to move shipping containers and cargo within the port will be tested at a Port of Long Beach shipping terminal. The equipment will be tested at SSA Container Terminal on Pier A at the Port of Long Beach for 3 months. Andra Rogers. Mobile, Ala., Mobile, Ala.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Main engine horsepower is 42,738 (31,870 kW). At 870 feet long, 114 feet wide (beam), with a deep draft of 38 feet and weighing in at over 50,000 metric tons, Lurline is now Matson’s largest ship and the largest con-ro vessel ever constructed in the US. Lurline will make its maiden voyage to Hawaii next month.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2020

Funding is available to replace existing diesel-powered transit buses with model year 2009 and older engines, which must be permanently removed from service and scrapped. The funds were secured to mitigate damages from the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal through the federal settlement with Volkswagen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2018

A team at the University of Denver has measured the emissions from two in-use California heavy-duty truck fleets—at the Port of Los Angeles and the Cottonwood weigh station in Northern California—using the On-Road Heavy-Duty Measurement System in 2013, 2015 and 2017. years old) since 2013, with little fleet turnover.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The two organizations will lead a first-of-its-kind collaboration to launch the country’s first zero-emission, freight-charging corridor network. Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc.; A plan for a statewide charging corridor network, including a workforce development strategy and templates for key freight corridors.

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Green Car Congress

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. Click to enlarge. tons of diesel particulate matter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released the draft of their proposed 2017 C lean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update. To those ends, the CAAP incorporates two new emission reduction targets: Reduce GHGs from port‐related sources to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Freight Infrastructure Investment and Planning.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Clean Energy has begun a major fueling infrastructure upgrade for trucks operating in the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach. Clean Energy announced last week that trucking fleets that operate in the ports are taking delivery of additional clean heavy-duty trucks. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. The City of Ontario, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

US Hybrid has unveiled a zero-emission Class 8 fuel cell port drayage truck featuring its PEM fuel cell system during the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo at the Long Beach Convention Center. USFC anticipates production and delivery of more than 1,200 PEM fuel cell engines in the next 36 months. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

The first five tractors were delivered to various licensed motor carriers for utilization in drayage fleets in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. liter engine is supplied by Cummins Westport, a manufacturer of alternative-fuel engines based in Vancouver, Canada. Holly, North Carolina, in September.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2012

Foss, which owns and operates one of the largest tug and barge fleets on the US West Coast, partnered with AKA, a Canadian system integrator and marine engineering company, in developing this technology. Diesel engines are designed to optimally perform at or near their full load design point. System schematic. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Vehicle OEMs are investing large sums to advance the transition to electric vehicles, even as they lobby governments to water down the emissions regulations that are forcing that transition. The pursuit of contradictory goals is a basic fact of human nature, and the commercial truck industry is no exception.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. New partners for fleets—and lots of them. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Beginning in 2024 the cars will be powered by hybrid engines. One such company is Capstone Engineered Solutions, which is backing the No. Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity, at the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, to sit down with Jim Crouse, the president and CEO of Capstone Engineered Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Enova brought its Ze (zero emissions) commercialized all-electric step-van to the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach. Enova has demonstrated the Ze to USPS, Aramark, Amazon.com, UPS, the US Army, the Department of Energy, and several other national fleets and vehicle OEMs. The Ze electric drive system.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Therefore, electrifying them is critical to reducing emissions. Lots of fleets will be placing orders for heavy-duty EVs over the next few years.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Electrifying commercial vehicles is a critical part of reducing emissions, so it’s frustrating that the pace of fleet electrification has been so slow. Viable commercial EVs have been around for years, but fleet operators insisted on conducting years-long pilots to prove their reliability. Salim: Absolutely.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

On the positive side, the current regulatory situation has resulted in a high likelihood of enthusiastic participation by the container fleets, especially those that have vessel traffic to/from California ports. He gathered data from two US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration facilities and the ports of Long Beach, Calif.;

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