EV Adoption

APRIL 9, 2023

Home Depot/Lowes Target Their Commercial Accounts: Walmart’s planned charging network could trigger a move by big-box retailers, such as Home Depot and Lowes, propelling them to build a fast charging network at their stores (to be designed especially for their commercial accounts – where they will increasingly add electric trucks to their fleets).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

UK businesses and fleet operators only have to the end of the month to apply for funding towards the installation of charging points or refuelling facilities for alternative fuelled vehicles. For fleets, the cost of installing refuelling or recharging infrastructure represents a major barrier to switching fuel use.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 26, 2010

The Environment Agency has become the first public sector organisation to add pioneering new low-carbon commercials to its fleet through a Government scheme after it took delivery of 12 new vans. The new Ford Transit vans have been fitted with an award-winning hybrid drive system developed and installed by Ashwoods.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 20, 2012

Just month’s away from the opening ceremony, Transport for London, working in association with LOCOG and fellow sustainability partners EDF, GE and BMW, begins work to install 120 charge points to support [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Audi is throwing its weight behind electric vehicle technology by launching a fleet trial in the Munich model region. From the middle of next year, 20 Audi A1 e-tron models will be launched on to the region’s roads with around 200 new charging stations to be installed with co-operation from the Munich municipal utility company [.].

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EV Connect

MAY 30, 2023

A bad actor could use this, for instance, to disable charging on a competitor’s vehicle fleet and disrupt their operations. If your business chooses to electrify its fleet or install public charging stations, you need to be confident you can do it securely. Many EVs are now capable of over-the-air software updates , for example.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 20, 2022

If you drive a Tesla, then you might want to look at the company’s in-house mileage-based car insurance. No additional device needs to be installed in a car. Most will require the installation of a small device near the steering wheel, which will measure your mileage. Explore Discounts.

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Green Cars News

MAY 8, 2013

The car is part of the ten-strong Honda hybrid fleet of Renewable Solutions UK, a national award-winning designers and installers of Renewable Energy Systems. The fleet, which also incl[.]. A Honda CR-Z, the Japanese hybrid coupe, has passed the impressive landmark of 100,000 miles in just three years.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

UK based Elektromotive is making headway in the electric vehicle recharging market after appointing ThePluginCompany to install networks of charging stations across Belgium and Luxembourg. The first project starts in Brussels at the headquarters of LeasePlan, the world’s largest vehicle management and leasing provider.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2009

Electric Avenue will soon arrive in Music City USA as the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County became the first municipality in the State of Tennessee to install and deploy Coulomb ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The Audi A1 e-tron extended range electric vehicle is at the heart of a new fleet trial in Munich. Run by Audi, E.ON, Stadtwerke Munchen and Technische Universitat Munchen, the project will see 20 Audi A1 e-tron vehicles used to test charging infrastructure installed within the Munich city limits and outlying areas.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 21, 2009

These could include tax rebates, off-peak charging rates, preferential parking, and grants for charging infrastructure installation. - Utility fleets: The utilities will develop new sustainable fleet acquisition and operation plans to help drive development and deployment of electric transportation solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

CO 2 emissions by the European new vehicle fleet will be reduced by some 30% during the period from 2006 to 2015—emissions will be below the threshold of 120 grams CO 2 /km for the first time by 2015. Volkswagen hosted Green Car Congress for the inauguration of the solar park. The Chattanooga Solar Park.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 26, 2012

Hybrid taxi service Climatecars appointed Siemens to install its first charging post as the London-based firm expands its fleet to include new, rechargeable models. Two new Renault [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Nine fleets and more than 160 vehicles have joined the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Programme that sees vehicles converted to run on propane gas as well as the installation of on-site fuelling stations.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

The partners, who introduced the prototype at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg Virginia, will send the first test unit to the fleet of the Pacific Gas and Electricity Company to conduct routine and emergency overhead line work in the northern and central California service area.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Here’s a look at the top six projects that will benefit in terms of the size of the award: - State of Wisconsin’s Clean Transportation Programme: $15million to deploy 502 alternative and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets and install 10 alternative refuelling sites.

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

The company also offered more details about its introduction of electric vehicles in Spain and is said to be aiming to install electric car infrastructure in several cities as well as subsidising the government, municipal and private purchase of smaller electric vehicle fleets. NK Electric Vehicle Symposium Spain Th!nk

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Green Cars News

APRIL 18, 2009

The money will help create jobs in fuel cell manufacturing, installation, maintenance and support services. Will deploy 35 fuel cell systems as battery replacements for a complete fleet of electric lift trucks. Will deploy 23 fuel cell systems as battery replacements for a fleet of electric lift trucks. GENCO in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Green Cars News

MAY 9, 2009

A pre programme demonstration project that begins with five Think City vehicles will start in the early summer with the intention of gaining real time experience of running and operating electric cars in Spain. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news TH!NK NK electric vehicle testing programme Spain Think.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

In a blog entry, Holloway writes that although there is nothing wrong with using a fleet on 1 Series and 3 Series vehicles to transport Olympic official and athletes during the games, the success of BMW’s bid pushed out other contenders who would have increased the use of electric vehicles and encouraged the instalment of charging points.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

A leading supplier of renewable-energy heating products is encouraging its drivers to choose Toyota Prius hybrid cars to help reflect the environmentally friendly nature of its business. litre cars it has been running in recent years as part of its 30-strong, multi-badge, user-chooser fleet. litre Toyota Prius.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 4, 2006

Bruno today announced a new $10 million State program to convert vehicles in the State fleet to plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and plans for the construction of a state-of-the-art alternative fuel research laboratory at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP). The 600 hybrid vehicles in the State fleet will be retrofitted to be PHEVs.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The cars’ first placement is with Newcastle City Council, where they are supplementing its vehicle fleet and being allocated to staff making trips around the city, as an alternative to using fleet cars with conventional petrol or diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

32 ] For each PHEVLER there should also be a 6 to 8kW solar or wind electric generator installed near the home or workplace of the driver. Society as a whole will reap the benefits of the multipurpose PHEVLER green machine which will be “sun kissed for zero CO 2.”. braunii - Green Car Congress 07 April 2016. [

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

BMW’s Mini is rolling out its electric car in three phases. In 2008 the company released a test fleet of 450 Mini-E vehicles and is getting ready to announce its second phase. Chinese green-car subsidies on hold. The uncertainty surrounding Chinese demand for electric cars is tied to subsidies, Mr. Yang says.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

And secondly, on the truck front, GM faces significant competition with the upcoming Tesla Cybertruck, Rivian R1T, Ford F-150 and Lordstown Endurance in the fleet market. And GM’s charging partnership with EVgo to install 2,700 fast charging stations over 5 years, which I covered here , amounts to a very modest 500 ports per year.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Exhibition highlights include the Riversimple hydrogen car, a biomethane version of a Lotus sports car, Modec’s electric van, the Honda Insight and plug-in hybrid car-hire scheme.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. Green Gears, Inc. is Hymotions San Francisco-based distributor/installer. Go to Hymotion.com.

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Green Cars News

JULY 7, 2009

The UK is also leading the way in establishing electric car infrastructure thanks to the advent of the Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator scheme which will put £25million towards the creation of the world’s largest network of electric vehicle recharging stations.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 23, 2021

March 22, via Green Car Reports. – March 22, via Green Car Reports. Rivian also plans to install 10,000 Level 2 AC chargers and launch the Rivian Waypoint network. The layout would have one pack up where the engine would be, one in back, and two toward the rear axle and tucked inside the frame rails.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

All we really need in addition to fleets of new paradigm vehicles are additional solar and wind generation sources. Globally, billions of people are using this ancient grid as installed, but the enormous potential of the grid is untapped—we could be getting much more energy from it. Or their UF=10% to 15%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

The time required to achieve sufficient penetration in the fleet, such that some benefits (value) are obvious to the owner, is longer than that which would motivate the installation (and cost) of the equipment. Ford hosted Green Car Congress at the Forward with Ford event in June.).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

MINI E test drivers must also have a private garage, car port or parking space at their home. can be installed by Southern Electric. A further 20 MINI E vehicles will be distributed among the MINI E consortium members for testing in a fleet environment. This wall box will be supplied with every MINI E and also includes a 6.5m

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Those wishing to participate will be able to tie into the multi-site webchat from Green Car Congress tomorrow, as well as directly on GM’s FastLane Blog , the EV World site, or the GM-Volt site. And strategically they’ve confirmed they will bring demonstration fleets to some receptive localities before November 2010. Bob Hayden.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost? He's an actual engineer, with a B.S.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost? He's an actual engineer, with a B.S.

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