Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2022

The Qantas Group, which has committed to using 10% SAF in its overall fuel mix by 2030, is sourcing SAF overseas, including 15% of its fuel use out of London currently and 20 million liters each year for flights from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Australia from 2025.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2018

BYD tugs offer greater energy and productivity efficiencies as well as lower operating costs and easier maintenance, as compared to its diesel, gas or lead acid battery counterparts. The world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles and batteries, BYD provides the chassis, battery, and charger.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2012

ANGH Route map shows initial phase of America‘s Natural Gas Highway. the leading provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, unveiled the route plan for the first phase of 150 new LNG fueling stations for America’s Natural Gas Highway (ANGH). Click to enlarge. Clean Energy Fuels Corp., —Andrew J.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has introduced another natural gas-powered truck, the Freightliner Business Class M2 112 NG. 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. Holly, North Carolina, in September.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 3, 2023

Issuing unused stocks to boost price range is significant for its pivot to generating hydrogen gas cellular vehicles and development out HYLA, its hydrogen manufacturing and distribution community. The sequence covers 10 battery-electric fat rigs and 3 hydrogen gas cellular vehicles. 6 billion from 800 million.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

based in Valencia (Los Angeles County), will administer the project, and ZeroTruck of Laguna Niguel (Orange County) will build up to 14 trucks for the project. The trucks will be tested in various locations, including Google in the Bay Area, the City of Santa Monica and the Port of Los Angeles. Electricore Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

and the Port of Los Angeles are launching the Green Omni Terminal Demonstration Project, a full-scale, real-time demonstration of zero and near-zero emission technologies at a working marine terminal. METS-1, which was piloted at the Port of Los Angeles, is one of only two existing ARB-approved alternatives to shore power.

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Los Angeles California Emissions Green 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2010

FedEx is targeting battery electric technology for vehicles in its fleet covering less than 5,000 miles per year. is expanding its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with the first all-electric FedEx parcel delivery trucks in the United States. Hybrids have their “sweet spot” in the 15,000-25,000 mile/hear range. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

Thomas Built Buses, Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) school bus manufacturer, has received an order for 130 compressed natural gas (CNG) school buses—the biggest contract for natural gas buses in the company’s history—from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2012

The award recipients are: Arcadia Unified School District (Los Angeles County) will receive $300,000 to install a new compressed natural gas fueling system. This will allow the district to expand its fleet to 15 compressed natural gas vehicles, which are less polluting than conventional-fuel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2012

has delivered the first dedicated Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) public transit buses using the new Xcelsior Platform to Culver City Bus in California. Culver CityBus currently operates 52 transit buses in their fleet with all of them being CNG-powered and manufactured by New Flyer. New Flyer Industries Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Scheduled to be placed in service in late 2018, the buses will be designed and built in California at Proterra’s Los Angeles County manufacturing facility. million pounds of greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions over the lifetime of these vehicles. Funded in part by a $3.8-million Funded in part by a $3.8-million

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2016

the largest heavy-duty transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is adding the 2016 Cummins Westport ISL G Near Zero engine ( earlier post ) to its Xcelsior bus family. LA Metro operates the largest natural gas engine transit vehicle fleet in North America. Flyer of America Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Transportation accounts for approximately 30% of total US energy needs and generates the largest share of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Manufacturing Demonstration of a Large-scale, Multimaterial Vehicle Sub-system. Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. AOI 5: Demonstration of Lightweight Multi?Material AOI 6: Low?cost

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

China has the largest network of recharging stations in the world, but in California, you’ll find around 63 recharging stations, mostly around Los Angeles and San Francisco. Hyundai’s $100 million stake in AI chip manufacturer Tenstorrent should help make that happen. In the East Coast, there are maybe a handful of stations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

The eStar all-electric truck transitioned from concept to reality in August 2009, when President Barack Obama visited Navistar’s manufacturing plant in Indiana to announce a $39.2 FedEx will evaluate the performance of the eStar vehicle in its fleet as it operates in the Los Angeles area. and Modec Limited of the UK.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2021

Now, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is showing off North America’s first electric fire engine from Austria-based Rosenbauer Group. In terms of power, gas- or diesel-powered engines win every time. It may be a few years before a full fleet of electric fire trucks makes its way to the U.S. Making History.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in Bogota’s center-city taxi fleet. Fifteen of the world’s largest cities have come together to help to become more electric vehicle-friendly, in collaboration with four leading vehicle manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

The fee-based network of charging stations funded by the settlement and to be built by NRG will be installed in the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Los Angeles Basin and San Diego County. AB 32, the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, calls for a 30% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

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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. Driving style also matters.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 28, 2022

The annual Western Automotive Journalist ( WAJ ) Media Days present a chance for automotive journalists and manufacturers to come together to test drive some of the hottest new vehicles along the coast of the Pacific Ocean at Half Moon Bay. The post Video Test: 6 EVs Tested—Back-to-Back first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

MC Fill allows dynamic control of refueling based on gas temperature. The MC Fill protocol utilizes this value, as well as the dispenser outlet gas temperature and pressure, in its fill control logic. MC Method control diagram, from a 2013 DOE-hosted webinar on hydrogen refueling. Click to enlarge. Honda’s fueling station.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Following the successful completion of cargo terminal tests during 2008 of the demonstration Balqon truck, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved the purchase of 20 production, electric trucks from the manufacturer as part of the “green terminal” program. These could eventually be replaced by electric vehicles.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s still not the kind of discount rental car companies are used to getting from manufacturers, but the expected high resale value and low overhead Carvana deal to sell the cars at the end of their rental use should keep the numbers positive for Hertz. With the offerings starting in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C.,

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One of the challenges Clean Fleet Report takes seriously is to test the EPA fuel economy ratings for the cars, crossovers and trucks we review, knowing efficiency is a top priority when looking to purchase a new vehicle. The EPA 46 MPG Is Only the Start. Your numbers may differ. 2 of 3 Niros can plug in. The hybrid system’s 8.9-kilowatt-hour

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

This is saying something, as she has ridden in or driven many of the 800+ cars I have reviewed for Clean Fleet Report over the past 10 years. Clean Fleet Report has been impressed with all Genesis models. Make sure to opt-in to the Clean Fleet Report newsletter (top right of page) to be notified of all new stories and vehicle reviews.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

I think we have 22 or 24 buses in the San Diego area, and we have another deployment underway in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where we are initially deploying 24 as well. Do you make those chargers yourself, or are you collaborating with other manufacturers? From a CO 2 footprint perspective, that was really bad.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

A fleet of more than 1000 BMW ActiveE vehicles will provide further valuable insights into the everyday use of the vehicle. The ActiveE will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011.

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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. Of course, the EPA “green” scores are 10 for both Smog and Greenhouse Gas. Disclosure: Clean Fleet Report is loaned free test vehicles from automakers to evaluate, typically for a week at a time.

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Charged EVs

MAY 3, 2023

This tragedy involves a cast of many players—automakers, charger manufacturers, network operators, electric utilities, and often a lot more—and all need to start reading from the same script if there’s to be any hope of a happy ending. How are they manufactured? Decades and decades. In this case, the product is batteries. ChargerHelp!

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Launched earlier this year, Plug-in Partners already has attracted 485 entities such as cities and other government bodies, environmental and other nonprofit organizations and businesses calling for automakers to manufacture plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Motiv Power Systems is deploying two battery-electric refuse trucks to the City of Los Angeles. in Los Angeles and are projected to be delivered in the first quarter of 2018. in Los Angeles and are projected to be delivered in the first quarter of 2018. The trucks will be built by Amrep, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are expected to play an important role in reducing California''s greenhouse gas emissions, and in advancing the Governor''s Zero Emission Vehicles Action Plan goals of establishing enough infrastructure to support 1 million ZEV vehicles by 2020, with a goal of having 1.5 Linde, LLC, will receive $4.5

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 25, 2006

The Nation's largest retail car dealer sees the importance of the PHEV and its CEO is calling on his manufacturers to get with the program. automotive retailer, has joined the Plug-In Partners campaign calling on automakers to manufacture plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. 12, 2006 AutoNation, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Hydrogen stations are being built in these areas from industrial gas suppliers such as Linde, Air Products, Air Liquide, Iwatani and other companies such as H2 Logic, First Element and Hydrogen Frontiers are working to create these stations. In addition, they plan to use carbon capture for their reformation of natural gas to hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The program funds projects to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, including electricity, natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen, and gasoline and diesel substitutes, such as cellulosic ethanol (derived from woody materials, including agricultural waste), and biodiesel from waste grease.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). These technologies are estimated to improve the reliability and efficiency of the distribution system 30-40%. 29,561,142. 125,006,103.

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