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MAY 10, 2016

COMO Connect—a public bus system owned by the City of Columbia, Missouri, is expanding its fleet with three 30-ft, low-floor, all-electric transit buses from BYD. COMO estimates that the emissions benefits of operating one all-electric bus is roughly equivalent to removing at least 70 passenger vehicles from the road daily.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

To date, more than 450 commercial customers in North America, including 200 top fleets and fleet management companies, have said they’re interested in purchasing the E-Transit. It will be built alongside the Transit at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

DHL Express has added 100 more pickup and delivery vans fueled by propane autogas to its fleet. Through the use of propane autogas, each alternative fuel vehicle saves more than 22,587 pounds (10,245 kg) of CO 2 emissions each year.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They’ll be deployed in Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Executive Order 14057 calls for the 657,500-strong federal vehicle fleet to be electrified by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

The expansion will include on-site fueling stations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. UPS began using LNG tractors in its delivery fleet in 2002. By 2017, our goal is to reach one billion miles driven by our alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Clean Energy announced last week that trucking fleets that operate in the ports are taking delivery of additional clean heavy-duty trucks. The San Pedro Ports Clean Air Action Plan will start imposing a container rate, scheduled to start next year, on containers that are hauled by trucks that do not meet stricter emission standards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2019

million in grant selections through the Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant program, which funds the deployment of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced propulsion technologies. Fiscal Year 2019 Low or No-Emission (Low-No) Bus Program Projects. City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri. Project Sponsor. Funding Amount.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $8 million to communities in 21 states and Puerto Rico to reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines through the agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act ( DERA ) program. Diesel Emissions Engines Policy Ports and Marine'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

The 23-foot gasoline-electric hybrid buses—a size smaller than heavy urban transit buses—are part of a national pilot program to speed commercialization of these vehicles, which are expected to yield 30% to 40% reductions in fuel use with an accompanying 30% reduction in emissions. Tags: Fleets Hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Being in a position to unify Smith’s divisions after less than two years of operating in the United States is evidence that the market for affordable, sustainable commercial fleets is fertile. Smith UK has been a leading manufacturer of zero-emissions battery-electric commercial vehicles in Europe since the 1920s.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

SEV-US plans to participate in similar funding programs in California, Missouri, New York and Texas. We’re involved in this initiative to help our customers with fleet operations in Ohio take full advantage of the benefits the ARRA federal stimulus plan has to offer for the adoption of zero-emission all-electric commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Production of the first zero-emission commercial trucks is scheduled to begin third quarter of 2009. SEV US Corp will initially focus its production on battery-electric-powered vehicles for depot-based predictable-route delivery fleets. This will make them a natural choice for fleet managers with a depot-based delivery model.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

Five projects will enable consumers and fleets to drive alternative fuel vehicles for extended periods of time to help them better understand how these vehicles can meet their everyday needs. Through these demonstrations, fleets will gain operational experience and the project can collect data to provide validation for AFV purchases.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Joseph, Missouri, Gevo is demonstrating the viability of its technology for retrofitting existing ethanol plants to make biobutanol. Biobutanol has higher energy content than ethanol and a lower Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP), which means lower volatility and evaporative emissions. Gevo, Inc., Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SEV US has commenced production of the Smith Newton electric truck platform at its assembly facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and currently has an order book of 255 trucks. The Transit Connect BEV will use the same proven cell technology that is currently deployed in the Ford Escape plug-in hybrid fleet that is on the road today.

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2009

Darren Kell, CEO of The Tanfield Group Plc, which owns Smith Electric Vehicles, said: “The electric vehicle technology delivered to these customers today can readily be delivered to fleets in every major town and city in North America. It is produced in North America by Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation, based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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EV Connect

MAY 17, 2021

Not long ago, the idea that major corporations around the world would make the bold move of switching to all-electric vehicle fleets would have seemed far-fetched, if not inconceivable. The initiative, led by Ceres, aims to push more corporations toward fleet electrification and help expand the demand for electric vehicles.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. electric heat pumps, which could help alleviate emissions from manufacturing facilities and other commercial structures.

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