Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

British Airways has entered a partnership with Velocys to design a series of waste plants that convert household waste into renewable jet fuel to power its fleet. The airline plans to supply its aircraft fleet with increasing amounts of sustainable jet fuel in the next decade. It would be the first plant of this scale.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

Four San Francisco Bay Area local government fleets—San Jose, Los Gatos, Campbell and Mill Valley—are deploying a total of 50 Mitsubishi i-MiEV EVs, representing the largest municipal fleet deployment of light-duty all-electric vehicles (EVs) in the US to date.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

A Propel Clean Fuel Point. million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and California Energy Commission (CEC) to build and operate 75 retail renewable fuel stations throughout California over the next two years. Along with the new station build-out, alternative fuel education and community outreach are a piece of LCFI3.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Currently, the company has sold more than 400 vehicles to cities and communities in the US, including Seattle, Dallas, Nashville, San Jose, Philadelphia and Reno. Due to Proterra's efforts, electric mass transit is overtaking fossil-fuel buses as the new standard. —Zach Barasz, partner at BMW i Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Currently (2010), electrified products (only hybrids at this point) represent 1% of Ford’s global fleet. All of that is highly dependent on fuel prices, policies, and customer value propositions, she noted. Access to the fuel. In 2009, Ford sold 4.817 million units worldwide, down from 5.532 million in 2008. Nancy Gioia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

A core group of airlines has signed letters of intent with Solena Fuels, LLC for a future supply of jet fuel derived exclusively from biomass to be produced in northern California. The third step upgrades the FT products into jet fuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

From the first installation of ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations in San Jose, Calif., in 2008, to the latest opening in Honolulu Hawaii, the ChargePoint Network is used by thousands of EV drivers looking to quickly and safely fuel their electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

New environmentally-friendly pretreatments are needed to provide corrosion protection to the mix of lightweight metals being incorporated in more fuel-efficient vehicles. Sinter Print Inc. HPC for Mobility.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2010

Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. Read more in the article: Smart to Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. Smart To Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. San Jose, Calif.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

The grant is part of the CEC’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The CEC grant funds are to accelerate manufacturing of Wrightspeed’s Route retrofit powertrain for the medium-duty commercial fleet market ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

Prototype Saturn Vue PHEV plugging in to a Coulomb Chargepoint ( earlier post ) in San Jose, CA. Stephens said that GM is still planning initial delivery of plug-in hybrid vehicles using a modified version of the GM front-wheel drive two-mode hybrid system ( earlier post ) in 2011 to the DOE and EPRI for use in fleets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento). Electrify America has identified three potential Green City initiatives on which to focus: ZEV car‐sharing, ZEV delivery fleet, and ZEV taxi fleet provider.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2013

New Flyer Industries has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive HDS300 propulsion system to power a fleet of new 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in San Jose, California. Fleets Heavy-duty Hybrids'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2011

These capabilities can turn a vehicle into a multi-dimensional communications center to improve driver performance, help reduce accidents, provide significant safety benefits, enhance fleet management logistics for businesses and have a potentially profound impact on environmental sustainability. —Dan Hesse.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) approved four regional planning grants to prepare for electric vehicles. Cities taking part include San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and Berkeley, along with Marin County.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

There are already spaces in New York City and Los Angeles, and there are now two in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m located. The newest Polestar Space just opened in Silicon Valley, at the Westfield Valley Fair, 2855 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose. There’s a second location in Corte Madera in Marin County.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Meanwhile, GM is hedging its bets by continuing to invest in the dream of cheap, cellulosic ethanol and the hallucinogenic pipe dream of hydrogen fuel cell SUVs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update to support the development and use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

If there was ever a car on the road fitting the bill as future, it is the 2024 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). This is impressive as there are only 55 operating hydrogen fuel stations in the state and the availability of hydrogen is sometimes spotty. Exclusively available in California, Toyota sold 2,737 Mirais in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

These awards, totaling $20,093,718, are made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118. Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The $9,612,515 is funded from the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Transportation program. Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) created the California Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Natural gas-powered vehicle fueling.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

These include voyage planning, fueling (charging), cargo operations, and task management, among other activities. He created three business startups at the age of 21 and worked with Google, Microsoft, BlackBerry, US Army, City of San Jose and is now serving as an Executive Management Consultant for American Water.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

These include voyage planning, fueling (charging), cargo operations, and task management, among other activities. He created three business startups at the age of 21 and worked with Google, Microsoft, BlackBerry, US Army, City of San Jose and is now serving as an Executive Management Consultant for American Water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Potential investment in hydrogen fueling stations over the 10-year investment period. Heavy-duty hydrogen projects, such as freight fleet or shuttle programs, in this or future plans. The potential for siting plazas that allow for both charging and hydrogen fueling stations, including planning elements such as permitting.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

It’s in fleet lease use in Japan already and I have confidence they’ll be producing them and selling them to actual people. Their goal is nothing short of fueling the electric transportation industry. Another thing happening right now is the Plug-In movement addressing fleet vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

cents a mile for fuel, less than a third of the cost for a highly efficient gasoline car, according to proponents. At Google’s Mountain View headquarters, a handful of employees drive to work in Tesla Roadsters, and more drive a fleet of modified Priuses that Google owns. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

The software upgrade also will allow Prius drivers with PICC conversion kits to boost highway fuel efficiency to 170 miles per gallon (until the rechargeable battery is depleted), as recently measured by Argonne National Laboratory. Felix Kramer, CalCars.org, at Plug In 2008 in San Jose / photo by Creative Greenius (c) 2008.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Plans "large demonstration fleet" late 2009. Blue Concept PHEV Van with diesel or hydrogen fuel cells and rooftop photovoltaic. Batteries not ready.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past. It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel.

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