Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2011

The staff of California Air Resources Board (ARB) is in the process of developing a proposal for Board’s consideration later this year to amend California’s Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV) regulations. ARB also plans to integrate its zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) requirements into this new effort. Earlier post.) 3 May 2010.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

California’s planned transition to 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035 could be getting changes soon, as the Executive Board of the California Democratic Party today unanimously adopted a resolution to call for an end to new gas car sales in the state by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

New Flyer has more than 50 years of experience manufacturing zero-emission buses (ZEBs). In California alone, New Flyer has sold nearly 80 battery-electric buses, with active programs in Coachella Valley, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orange County, and San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The pilot program, which marked the first commercial availability of algal derived fuels, offered SoladieselBD in a B20 blend to consumers through Propel’s Clean Fuel Points in Redwood City, San Jose, Berkeley, and Oakland, California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2021

Funding for CMO is made possible by California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health. The total amount of funds awarded for mobility projects is $20 million.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

Funding for CMO is made possible by California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health. The total amount of funds awarded for mobility projects is $20 million.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

California’s zero-emission vehicle goal is to get 1.5 Linde LLC was awarded $4,250,000 to install two hydrogen refueling stations located in San Ramon and Oakland. million hydrogen, battery electric, and plug-in electric vehicles on the roadway by 2025. ITM Power Inc. Ontario CNG Station Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

AC Transit is the transit bus operator for 13 cities in the East Bay Area, including Emeryville, Oakland and Berkeley, and also operates trans-bay service to San Francisco. The second, located at the Oakland operating division, is expected to begin operating in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The digesters will use the waste to produce biomethane to be converted into renewable compressed natural gas fuel. The project will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by diverting food waste from landfills that release methane gas directly into the atmosphere. The award recipients are: Environ Strategy Consultants, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

million to 8 different applicants to accelerate the development of publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations in California in order to promote a consumer market for zero-emission fuel cell vehicles. Institute of Gas Technology will receive $999,677 for a mobile refueling unit. The California Energy Commission will award $46.6

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The prize recognizes promising projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or promote carbon uptake. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

This powerplant is aboard an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) bus operating in the Greater Oakland, California area. UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. Stack durability matters. It is recognized by the industry as a key challenge in commercializing fuel cell vehicles worldwide. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The project will demonstrate the performance, fuel savings and emissions reductions for the work trucks in Southern California. These incentives help pay the difference between the cost of conventional gas- or diesel-powered vehicles and new vehicles that use propane or natural gas. Villa Ford Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The Clean Vehicle Assistance Program, run by the Oakland-based nonprofit Beneficial State Foundation, was launched with a $5-million CARB grant.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. The project will use Genifuel hydrothermal processing technology (HTP) to convert wastewater solids into renewable natural gas as well as liquid fuels. HTP uses subcritical water and pressure (350 °C and 207 bar) to convert the wet organics into crude oil and natural gas. million in federal funding.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Using a more environmental-friendly diesel fuel source isn’t one of the strategies outlined in the Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the city can take actions outside of the plan that will help reach the goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2016

GTI International (GTII), a subsidiary of Gas Technology Institute (GTI), has acquired BKi, a professional energy services and consulting firm serving energy efficiency, energy supply, and alternative transportation markets. Both in and out of California, GTI is accelerating the use of new and more efficient end use equipment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The goal of CARB’s Zero and Near Zero Emission Freight Facility program is to support transformative, cost-effective clean technologies that can be adopted by other freight facilities and accelerate the commercialization of these technologies statewide. Partner match: $45.9 Partner match: $5.8 Partner match: $6.3 Partner match: $41.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2016

California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee ( EJAC ) is launching a series of statewide meetings to provide residents with the opportunity to meet with local advocates and state officials to share concerns and to provide input on addressing air pollution and how to help California meet its 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The new product offers environmentally conscious consumers and corporate customers a sustainable and easy solution for reducing traffic-borne emissions. 100% Neste Renewable Diesel is used in California, where it helps cities and counties to reduce traffic-related greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

Neste MY Renewable Diesel—classified as Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)—is a low-carbon drop-in renewable diesel fuel enabling up to 80% lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel compared to conventional petroleum diesel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2012

Differences in emissions standards between the U.S. The report notes that while diesel engines are used primarily in large pickups, some increase is occurring in other vehicle segments. is important to note that “regular” hybrids are expected to continue to grow even as plug-ins and full electrics enter the market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

This switch from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel will achieve a 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the city’s diesel fleet. Earlier this fall Californian cities Walnut Creek and Oakland switched their diesel-powered municipal fleet to Neste renewable diesel. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The project, made possible by engaging UK Power Networks, Cross River Partnership and UK’s Office for Low Emissions Vehicles, is an example of how collaboration can overcome vehicle electrification barriers. The findings will be explored in depth at the GreenBiz VERGE conference in Oakland, California on 16 October.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

The product enables up to 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel compared to conventional fossil diesel. The fuel ensures a clean combustion as well as reduces noise and local emissions. At Porvoo Refinery, Neste turns the ham fat into renewable diesel.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 19, 2024

Photo: Zum An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) supplied 2.7 megawatts (MW) of load to Zum’s Oakland EV-ready facility. Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The project will divert approximately 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Just four months ago, in October, the UN’s IPCC Climate Report gave us, at best, 12 years to take bold and drastic action in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if we want to limit the level of already baked-in climate catastrophe. US GHG emissions up instead of down . But instead of First Responders we have No Responders.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Photo: Zum An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Modern student transportation platform Zum has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects, administered by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) and Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), will accelerate the deployment of medium- and heavy-duty EV charging and refueling infrastructure to reduce emissions from freight corridors and the depots, ports, and other facilities those corridors service.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

The acid gas from the amine unit, as well as light products produced containing unacceptable levels of sulfur, can then be treated with a proprietary liquid reduction-oxidation process that converts H 2 S to elemental sulfur. The NREL tests concluded that renewable diesel reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 4.2%

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 27, 2022

metric tonnes of carbon emissions, or roughly 2.1 million gallons of gas, from being burned. Trips completed by Hertz Tesla vehicles in San Francisco and Oakland during the weeks of November 21, 2021, and May 22, 2022, respectively. In turn, the program has prevented 19.9k – Credit: Rainer Lempert / Uber.

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Plug in America

APRIL 16, 2025

It buildsand buys fromclean power plants to provide electricity to Pacific Gas & Electric, an investor-owned utility company that delivers the electricity to customers. Ava Community Energy decided to build public EV chargers because a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation in their service territory.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 27, 2024

The e:FCEV advances the company’s zero emissions goals–100-percent of its vehicles will be battery electric or fuel cell electric models by 2040, and the company will reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The by-product is water vapor that harmlessly drips from the tailpipe, making the e:FCEV a zero-emission vehicle.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

There’s a big push for zero emission trucks in California right now, in response to California’s new truck regulations. For a zero emission truck, you’ve got basically two choices: batteries, or hydrogen fuel cells. But that’s some ways off. But all of that is a long way off.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

No more pure diesel double-deck buses will be added to the capital’s fleet from 2018 and all new single-decks for central London will be zero-emission. The workshop is a clean transit event at which public and private sectors showcase considerations for the expansion of zero-emission bus technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Auxiliary power to docked ships, usually provided by on-board diesel engines, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, accounting for one-third to one-half of the in-port emissions attributed to ocean-going vessels. Oakland, Calif.; Emissions Fuel Cells Hydrogen Ports and Marine'

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