Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

Combined with a fully electric drivetrain and a natural gas-powered onboard generator to recharge the battery, the Hypertruck ERX will provide more than 1,000 miles of range. Initial Hypertruck ERX fleet demonstration vehicles have already been allocated to customers for delivery in 2021, with volume shipments scheduled in 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2020

Volta Power Systems has partnered with Stellar Industries to provide lithium-ion power systems that reduce idling from fleet utility and work trucks. The auxiliary system stores enough energy to provide all-day power to operate hydraulics, power tools, and multiphase worksite power without idling. The HPS features a 13.5

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EV Connect

MAY 1, 2023

From retail giants like Amazon to leading telecommunications providers like Comcast, big-name brands are electrifying their enormous fleets. It helps electrification surge forward, and it puts pressure on companies of all sizes to electrify their own fleets. It requires rethinking the whole process of fleet deployment and management.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2017

EDI) Awarded Bus Fleet Order for the City of Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. The company is supplying its drivetrain technology to Yaxing Motor Coach for integration into a fleet of city buses to be delivered in March of this year. Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. regenerative braking capabilities. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2013

Two Capstone-equipped DesignLine buses have been in service for more than a year on the mall, and they have better maintenance records than the TransTeq vehicles, according to RTD officials. The DesignLine range-extended electric buses are 45 feet long, and feature an all-electric drivetrain using Li-ion batteries for energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The MOU builds on a strong foundation of several years of collaboration and will draw on the companies’ expertise in electric vehicle (EV) charging, hydrogen, low-carbon energy solutions and digital technology as potential opportunities for both companies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Hyundai Hydrogen Carbon Motor 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The circular economy model implemented in Flins will be based on a set of complementary and convergent loops, aimed at encouraging the use of a vehicle instead of its ownership; extending its life through maintenance; and reusing it or reusing its components for other uses, when other solutions are no longer possible.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The batteries feature a lightweight enclosure and flexible energy dense modules, all controlled by a proprietary battery management system (BMS) to keep the packs operating at maximum performance. The battery electric powertrain for Bustech will have a range up to 350 km between recharging.

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Fuel Batteries Battery Australia 321

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

CATL and Moura are responsible for the supply, management, distribution and maintenance of batteries. And this involves, for example, analyzing and installing recharging terminals in customers’ garages anywhere in Brazil. Within the e-Consortium Siemens will provide infrastructure, chargers and power to customers.

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Brazil Recharge Electric Electrical 191

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2020

eGen Flex provides bus fleets with full electric engine-off propulsion and accessory power operation capability—suited for zero-emission zones and depot operation, including when approaching, during, and leaving passenger stops for a quieter and healthier environment. in 24 of the 27 Gillig buses.

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Teslarati

JULY 22, 2021

After sparring with the idea of purchasing another Ford Explorer for the police fleet, cost-effectiveness became the big question. The ongoing cost of the Model 3 is comparatively less than that of the Ford Explorer based on routine maintenance and fuel costs. Reduced maintenance. Credit: EV Club of CT. Credit: EV Club of CT.

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Connecticut Tesla Maintenance Purchase 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

In conjunction with the Memorandum, the General Services Administration (GSA) launched a pilot project to incorporate electric vehicles and technologies into the Federal fleet. Optimum fleet size. In addition, the VAM shall address composition for agencies’ light-duty fleets based on their missions.

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Alternative Fuels Purchase Obama Fleet 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

Epyon BV, a leading European supplier of intelligent charging solutions for electric vehicles, has started delivering EV fast-charging systems to Lyse Energi in Norway. Epyon’s Terra 51 can recharge an EV battery in as little as 15 to 30 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Linde Material Handling recently handed over a fleet of four tow trucks and five industrial trucks with hydrogen fuel cell hybrid drive to the BMW plant in Leipzig. Recharging cycles, battery replacement and the maintenance of lead/acid batteries require relatively long downtimes for conventional trucks and thus reduce their productivity.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

MYTH 1: EVs are not really green because they increase the demand for energy generated by traditional fossil-fuel power plants. Charge point operators increasingly use smart energy management to incorporate energy from onsite renewables, usually solar panels, into the power supplied to the chargers, further reducing carbon footprint.

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Charging Fleet Grid Energy 98

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Los Angeles Unified School District ordered 180 electric school buses, adding to the 26 Blue Bird electric school buses it already has in its fleet. Blue Bird will add 30 Vision and 150 All American (pictured above) electric buses to Los Angeles’ school bus fleet. The V2G capability will also help balance the grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

The LoNo Program provides funding for transit agencies for capital acquisitions and leases of zero emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities such as recharging, refueling, and maintenance facilities. 7407(d)); or.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

Communities and utilities receiving the new technology were partially funded under the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program jointly administered through the Wisconsin State Energy Office and the US Department of Energy Wisconsin Clean Cities Program. The trucks are used for construction and maintenance of the Marshfield utility grid.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

For example, the higher up-front cost of an EV is expected to be offset by reduced operating costs for fueling and maintenance. As Mihelic writes, “This is a bit of a shell game, moving costs around, replacing OpEx with CapEx—with endless nuances, such as adding resources for maintenance, software, inspections, etc.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Ballard Power Systems expects to supply 10 FCvelocity-HD6 fuel cell modules to power clean energy buses as part of two projects that were recently awarded funding by the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Low and No Emission (LoNo) Vehicle Deployment Program. Earlier post.). SunLine Transit Agency will receive $9.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

The system will operate without interruption at the work site, even if battery capacity drops, since the hybrid system has the ability to recharge the battery quickly by temporarily using the chassis engine, if needed. The Odyne system provides consistent power conversion throughout the entire range of the battery charge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

The areas of application are diverse: courier, express and package service providers (KEP, in German: Kurier-, Express- und Paketdienstleister); plant transportation in large corporations; service vehicles for plant maintenance, customer service, and assembly and internal transport within companies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Volvo takes full responsibility for vehicle servicing, battery maintenance as well as maintenance of the standard-based charging stations for a fixed monthly cost. The batteries are fast-charged in just a few minutes at the end stops and also by the energy generated whenever the vehicle brakes. ABB bus chargers.

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Belgium Volvo Hybrid Maintenance 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Cost-competitiveness of the electric truck diminishes in drive cycles with higher average speeds. Credit: ACS, Lee et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

Detroit Edison (DTE) President and Chief Operating Officer, Steven Kurmas, presented two out of four recently-purchased Ford Transit Connect Electric vehicles ( earlier post ) at DTE Energy headquarters in downtown Detroit. The vehicles were purchased from Suburban Ford of Sterling Heights, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2010

A full recharge takes 6-8 hours, or 3-4 hours with Smith’s new fast charging technology. Vehicle-mounted aerial lifts are widely used in the utility sector, to safely lift up workers for maintenance work at height. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fleets. The UK’s first 17-seat, electric minibus is now in production.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate The First Volvo Compact SUV Coupe EV The 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge was the first electric-only and the smallest SUV from Volvo, falling in-line with the EX90 and XC40 Recharge. The shift-by-wire single speed transmission drives all four wheels 0-60 miles per hour in about 4.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

kW on-board charger supports a full charge requires in about six hours; a recharge for a short, 40-mile commute will take lees than two hours. As part of that agreement, Enterprise will provide courtesy transportation vehicles to CODA customers during service and maintenance periods. Equipped with a 33.8

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Charging infrastructure software is key to operations, billing, energy management and beyond. To save development and maintenance costs, and to leverage emerging standards, charging station manufacturers increasingly turn to EV ecosystem partners. EV Charging Billing – monetization of EV charging networks via billing and settlement.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

There are more than 1,250 Orion VII hybrids in the New York metropolitan area already with another 425 units to be delivered over the next nine months making New York City Transit the largest hybrid fleet in the world. In 2008, Daimler deployed lithium-ion energy storage technology for buses in volume production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

The bus recharges at stops using its roof-mounted contacts that engage using laser guidance. Short top-up charges maintain the battery level until full recharge at a terminus. A further 4- to 5-minute charge at 400 kW at the terminus at the end of the line enables a full recharge of the batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

—$700,000—to build a CNG fueling station at its hauling facility in Washington, PA, which will also be available to other fleet operators. The company intends to use natural gas in its fleet of trash and recycle trucks. million gallons of blended biodiesel and 280,000 gallons of B100. Venango Leasing Co.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 8, 2023

Clean Fleet Report got a chance to sample the model at a recent media event in San Diego. Battery and Brakes The lithium-ion battery is charged when applying the brakes or coasting by the regenerative charging system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy and stores it in the battery. Story by John Faulkner.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2010

It supports the state’s goal of leading the nation in renewable energy use, which Better Place will integrate into the grid via electric cars. Better Place’s initial charging stations will be based at partner Kyo-ya Hotel & Resorts’ Sheraton Waikiki Resort where two electric vehicles will be used as fleet vehicles and guest shuttles.

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Hawaii Charging Honolulu Grid 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Azure is a provider of electric drive technology for light to medium-duty commercial fleet vehicles in North America and is the first authorized provider of electric and hybrid electric solutions on Ford’s light-and medium-duty commercial vehicles. National Renewable Energy Lab through Phil Long Ford in Colorado Springs, CO.

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 10, 2021

Panasonic Energy India Company Ltd. Panasonic Energy India Company is one of India’s largest manufacturers & suppliers of dry cell batteries and lighting products which was established in 1972 as Lakhanpal National Limited. Recently, Amara Raja Batteries has partnered with Gridtential Energy for bipolar battery technology.

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