Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Smith said its decision to locate a facility in Chicago was influenced by the Mayor’s innovative voucher system created to accelerate the conversion from diesel to zero-emission, all-electric commercial vehicles, the large number of fleets interested in vehicle electrification, and the development incentives made available to Smith.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2018

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emissions solutions for commercial fleets, is taking its new Ford Transit LightningElectric model ( earlier post ) on the road, showcasing the recently released vehicle efficiency ratings of 61 MPGe on in-town routes and 66 MPGe on highway.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

Ford says that the new Transit, which begins production in Kansas City in 2013, will achieve at least 25% better fuel economy than current E-Series vans. Ford also has developed a specialized new tool to help optimize fleet purchases based on specific fuel types and operating locations. EcoBoost V6. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Participating customers will receive a subsidy from the program for allowing their vehicles to be part of the demonstration fleet. Smith’s Kansas City assembly plant and corporate office currently employ approximately 50 people. The company anticipates employment to reach more than 100 by the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. Diamond Bar, CA Manufacturing: Galesburg, MI and Elizabethtown, KY; Deployment: 50 different utilities and fleets. Demonstrate a fleet of 378 trucks and shuttle buses. Manufacturing: Michigan; Deployment: several utility partners’ fleets. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L). Smith Electric Vehicles US, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., Earlier post.). First recipients include: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Coca-Cola Enterprises. Payload is more than 16,000 lbs (7,257 kg).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The Fort Carson team, led by Kansas City, Mo.-based electrical power and. consumption at military. installations more efficiently, thus reducing petroleum. demand, carbon emissions, and. transportation costs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The program will roll out in two phases and focus on cities that have a presence of existing and potential autogas fleets, autogas fuel availability as well as available staff and resources from the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). school buses, shuttle buses, medium and light duty trucks, etc.),

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2019

RNG is a key part of UPS’ strategy to increase alternative fuel consumption to be 40% of total ground fuel purchases by 2025, supporting the logistics leader’s efforts to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its ground fleet 12% by 2025. —Mike Casteel, UPS director of fleet procurement. Commerce City, Colo.;

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Amazon is ready for its first-ever holiday season with its fleet of custom electric delivery vehicles designed by Rivian. Hundreds of the vehicles rolled out this summer in more than a dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Being in a position to unify Smith’s divisions after less than two years of operating in the United States is evidence that the market for affordable, sustainable commercial fleets is fertile. It operates an unrivaled UK-wide service and support network that already maintains more than 5,000 vehicles for major fleet operators.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

of Kansas City, Mo., Milbank will offer several of AV’s EV charging station models including vehicle charging at the home, office, retail complex, fleet yard, or construction site. Milbank Manufacturing Co. has selected AeroVironment, Inc. (AV)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

Smith Telemetry aims to simplify fleet management of commercial electric vehicles, while also reducing costs. This is a very cost-effective method for fleet managers to streamline the management of commercial EVs. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fleets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Clean Energy announced last week that trucking fleets that operate in the ports are taking delivery of additional clean heavy-duty trucks. The City of Ontario, Calif. signed a 5-year RNG supply contract for an approximate 3 million gallons of Redeem to reduce fleet emissions in accordance with the City’s sustainability goals.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2023

Amazon has announced a few milestones within its Rivian Electric Delivery Vehicle (EDV) fleet. So far, Rivian’s EDVs are carrying Amazon packages in more than 500 cities and regions across the United States. This is the fastest rollout of an electric delivery fleet at this scale in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

UPS plans to build an additional 12 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 380 new CNG tractors to its growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. At UPS, we own our fleet and our infrastructure. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; Columbia, S.C.; Phoenix, Ariz.;

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2017

Knapheide will begin XLP PHEV upfits ( earlier post ) on Ford F-150s in its Kansas City, Mo. Fleets will maintain the complete OEM warranty, and get a three-year, 75,000 mile warranty from XL Hybrids on the XLP powertrain. XL Hybrids, Inc. facility starting in fourth quarter 2017. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2017

Landi Renzo USA , a division of Landi Renzo Group, a global leader in alternative fuel systems, will offer the Ford F-150 with compressed natural gas (CNG) for model year 2018 with Ford Ship-Thru strategically located adjacent to the Ford assembly plant in Kansas City, Mo. gaseous prep engine via Ford dealers as a Ship-Thru.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

We’re involved in this initiative to help our customers with fleet operations in Ohio take full advantage of the benefits the ARRA federal stimulus plan has to offer for the adoption of zero-emission all-electric commercial vehicles. Bryan Hansel, CEO of SEV-US. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Enova has demonstrated the Ze to USPS, Aramark, Amazon.com, UPS, the US Army, the Department of Energy, and several other national fleets and vehicle OEMs. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fleets Heavy-duty Hybrids Plug-ins. The US Air Force has been evaluating the Ze drive system for more than a year, with positive results. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

The partners inroduced the prototype at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg, Va. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will add the first test unit to its fleet to conduct routine and emergency overhead line work in PG&E’s northern and central California service area.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. The stations will provide additional CNG fueling in cities and along the Interstate corridors that pass through Kansas City – East to West on I-70 and North to South on I-35.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

The December 2022 plan announced intended acquisitions over the next five years of a 75% electric fleet of Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV). The Ford E-Transit BEVs are manufactured in Kansas City, Missouri. Overall, the Postal Service’s total investment in vehicles is expected to reach $9.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SEV US has commenced production of the Smith Newton electric truck platform at its assembly facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and currently has an order book of 255 trucks. The Transit Connect BEV will use the same proven cell technology that is currently deployed in the Ford Escape plug-in hybrid fleet that is on the road today.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2015

Retail sales grew 7%, while fleet sales were up 1%—the company’s best April retail sales in nine years. Kansas City Assembly, the second assembly plant building the popular new F-150, continues to ramp up production through the second quarter. This included record sales of the all-new Edge, up 78%, and Escape up 5%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

The facilities that will be affected by the funding include: Chicago Assembly, Louisville Assembly, Dearborn Assembly, Dearborn Engine, Livonia Transmission, Michigan Assembly, Van Dyke Transmission, Kansas City Assembly, Cleveland Engine, Lima Engine, and Sharonville Transmission. Nissan will receive $1.6

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2021

The project also supports RTC’s efforts to transition its aging diesel bus fleet to zero emission vehicles to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in an area where ozone levels currently exceed air quality targets. City of Lawrence / Lawrence Transit. Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2022

“We continue to expand and diversify our fleet of electric vehicles and to offer new options for customers seeking more sustainable choices when it comes to transportation.” The 750 units will be the first light-duty electric trucks to be made available in Penske’s rental and leasing fleets.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

The seven finalist cities that were announced at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March—Austin, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco—all presented innovative concepts, proposing to create new first-of-a-kind corridors for autonomous vehicles to move city residents, to electrify city fleets, and to collectively (..)

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Teslarati

AUGUST 11, 2022

In July 2022, Amazon announced that Rivian EDVs would be deployed in locations across the United States, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Plus, Amazon EDV vehicles work with Rivian’s fleet management system, called FleetOS.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A Tesla Semi unit is in Glendale, Arizona, for Super Bowl LVII in an epic matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, with Frito Lay taking center stage as the company’s colors wrap the all-electric truck. Tesla will broaden Semi output in the coming years to help companies offer more sustainable fleets.

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2022

In a recent press release, the Leawood Police Department in Kansas announced that it had acquired a Tesla Model Y Long Range for its fleet. Captain Kirt Yoder, the agency’s project manager, noted that Tesla Kansas had been quite helpful. Tesla-Kansas City was great.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 7, 2023

In late March, the White House released its fact sheet on EV charging investments, federal fleet plans, and partner agreements to make this happen. Los Angele s April 26 or 27th — Santa Monica Pier A member of the Union of Concerned Scientists will be driving to Flagstaff, AZ, and podcasting along the way. See more on the EV fact sheet.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Kansas City Power & Light. Expanding the EV fleet. The Office of Federal Sustainability is inviting State, county and municipal government fleets to join forces with Federal agencies to maximize their collective buying power, and aggregate their EV and charging infrastructure purchases. Municipal fleet electrification.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

’ After launching a pilot program this past Summer in a dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, Rivian and Amazon have expanded their fleet of EDVs to over 1,000 units present in more than 100 cities across the United States.

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