Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Hydra Energy, the Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS) provider for commercial fleets looking to reduce emissions and costs with limited risk and no up-front investment ( earlier post ), has delivered its first hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty truck to paying fleet customer Lodgewood Enterprises. And we've lowered our fuel costs in the process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

(EDI), a developer of advanced hybrid and electric drivetrain solutions, has expanded its product portfolio to include the EDI PowerDrive electrification kit and developer support program for vehicle manufacturers moving to create a PHEV offering.

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Electrek

MAY 9, 2022

Lightning eMotors announced a partnership with Perrone Robotics to integrate Level 2 and Level 4 autonomous capabilities into its medium-duty electric fleet vehicles. By utilizing Perrone’s TONY retrofit autonomy kit, Lightning eMotors can now offer Class 3-7 commercial EVs that can self-drive in a range of scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

It will also examine how regenerative fuels affect the pollutant emissions of the existing fleet and the function of vehicles and individual components. With “bioliq” ( earlier post ) and the “Energy Lab 2.0”, KIT already has two platforms for the production of reFuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

A prototype plug-in hybrid retrofit kit is applied to a research vehicle’s rear wheels. A group at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), led by Dr. Charles Perry, who holds the Russell Chair of Manufacturing Excellence, has developed and demonstrated a proof-of-concept for a wheel motor plug-in hybrid retrofit kit for almost any car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

UK-based Ashwoods Automotive , a provider of hybrid-electric vans and hybrid drive systems, is offering a hybrid drive retrofit kit for panel vans. Ashwoods is delivering more than 130 vehicles in Phase One, accounting for more than 68% of the total LCVPP fleet. The Ashwoods Hybrid Drive System Layout. Click to enlarge. million (US$2.8-million)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The repower kits are engineered by Lightning eMotors and will be installed by ABC technicians. By sourcing leading suppliers and manufacturers, we will provide a portfolio of offerings and price points that will enable our customers to accelerate their introduction of zero-emission vehicles into their fleets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In an open-access paper published in Scientific Reports , a team from Fraunhofer ISI and KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) has presented the first systematic overview of empirical findings on the electrification of vehicle mileage based on on actual PHEV (plug-in hybrid) and BEV (battery-electric vehicle) usage for the US and Germany.

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EV Obssesion

MAY 18, 2021

ZEV) Announces its Class 3 Conversion Kit to Eliminate 144 million Pounds of CO2 Emissions from our Atmosphere in 12 Months appeared first on EV Obsession. ZEV’s proprietary platform enables rapid conversion of diesel and gas cargo and passenger vehicles to 100% electric with no change […]. The post Zero Electric Vehicles, Inc.,(ZEV)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

Already a strong supporter of alternative fuels, a large majority of Ozinga’s fleet of concrete trucks operate on compressed natural gas (CNG). V8 with CNG prep kit, set up for bi-fuel (gasoline/natural gas) operation. SoCalGas (of Sempra Energy) in California and Atlanta Gas Light in Georgia announced demonstration fleets in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

The E-200’s plug-and-play solution requires no road compressor or drive kit to function. F, an can be used for both engine-powered or all-electric fleets. The E-200 is already in use with US customers such as Gatik, which is moving groceries for Walmart, and UK-based Tesco, one of the world’s leading international retailers.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lloyds-owned Tusker recently analyzed data from its over 30,000 electric vehicle (EV) fleet. It busted two EV myths after analyzing data from its electric vehicle fleet. Nothing has been caused, at least from our data, as a result of any issue with an electric vehicle,” Tusker’s Managing Director Kit Wilson told Fleet News.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

ecovolta has already electrified numerous other vehicle types with the drive kit used for the Traxter. The kit enables a short time-to-market and thus accelerates the development and production of small series for OEMs, fleet operators, general importers and other vehicle suppliers.

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Teslarati

APRIL 4, 2023

Tesla Yoke Steering wheels are being replaced by round ones thanks to the automaker’s new retrofit kit that rolled out last month, and it is a pretty easy process to get the traditional wheel back.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2024

And Spot has gotten a lot better—a Spot robot takes a tumble on average once every 50 kilometers, even as the Spot fleet collectively walks enough to circle the Earth every three months. The Spot RL Researcher Kit is a collaboration between Boston Dynamics, Nvidia, and the AI Institute. But that’s changing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2022

Additionally, ORTEN management has extensive, long-standing customer relationships across Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

The airplanes are converted to hydrogen using an aftermarket retrofit conversion kit, tackling the existing fleet rather than developing a brand new airplane. And hydrogen fueling uses modular capsules compatible with existing freight networks and airport cargo handling equipment, making every airport in the world hydrogen-ready.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This prototype is the first of the Volvo VNL fleet to be designed to operate with the Aurora Driver and represents a significant step as Aurora and Volvo begin building commercial L4 Class 8 trucks at scale for Volvo’s North American customers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2018

Upon completing the program, the result is a fleet of affordable, full electric zero-emissions buses that will eliminate thousands of pounds of particulate matter from the air, improving the health of the school children riding the buses, and the greater community.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

The company’s focus on mass production ensures that L3 autonomous trucks are sufficiently reliable for OEMs to produce and highly affordable for fleet operators to procure and operate, while its advanced technical features significantly increase driver safety and enable end-customers to receive goods at lower shipping costs.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 28, 2023

Having a car-specific tool kit at the ready for your vehicle is so important. If you have been thinking of creating a tool kit for your car, then here are a few items that you may want to consider putting in it. Building a tool kit There will be many tools that you should have in your car. It does not take up much space.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

With a captive ridership of 26 million students, the number of vehicles in the nation’s school bus fleet is bigger than commercial buses, trains, and air travel services combined, reaching almost half a million buses.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The company anticipates entry into commercial service in 2025 with a certified retrofit conversion kit for existing ATR 72 and De Havilland Canada Dash-8 regional airliners and a green hydrogen fuel services offering. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The commencement of ClearFlame’s first pilot fleet trial with Beck’s, highlighting strong interest from commercial fleets. These announcements include: Signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Reviva and Vander Haag’s, Inc. Ethanol is already distributed through fuel terminals nationwide.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2017

has expanded its EDI PowerDrive solution portfolio to include additional models of all-electric drivetrains and full vehicle electrification kits for commercial vehicles spanning class 4 through 8. Class-4 Light-duty passenger and commercial fleet vehicles (sedans, SUV, MPV). Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. EDI PowerDrive 4000EV.

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2023

Tesla Cybertruck pre-production beta shows new interior features Tesla did not release how many retrofit kits were available for the Model S and Model X. However, it appears that in just eight days, customers have already shown they were highly anticipating the company’s release of the retrofit kit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2014

The AMAS common appliqué kit consists of the bi-wire active safety kit and the autonomy kit. The AMAS JCTD goal is to standardize these kits across both the Army and Marine Corps and give the warfighter the ability to transform ordinary vehicles into optionally-manned vehicles. Autonomous driving Fleets Heavy-duty'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

REV, a Vancouver, Canada company that converts Ford fleet vehicles into highway capable battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles ( earlier post ), has become the first Hymotion plug-in conversion kit dealer in Canada. It is now offering the Hymotion L5 plug-in conversion system for Toyota Prius owners in BC.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s a good, fast way to adapt technology into an existing engine by manufacturing a retrofit kit that can be installed on current engines or on newer engines. Adapting existing fleets is a compelling issue for rail. Earlier post.). —Essam El-Hannouny, Argonne National Laboratory. Locomotives have extremely long service lives.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The objective is to identify cost-efficient concepts for individual vehicles and entire fleets of electrically powered coaches for the various operating profiles. Test drives on real customer cycles will also form the basis for the further development of the drivetrains up to series maturity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In addition to producing a new, cost-effective all-electric conversion kit, the project will deliver a blueprint for converting up to three UPS vehicles a day. This could lead to the conversion of up to 1,500 UPS delivery trucks, which is about 66% of UPS’s NYC fleet, operating in New York City by 2022. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2020

To start, A2D2 has outfitted several Audi Q7 development vehicles with roof-mounted sensor kits to collect data and help software engineers develop tools that power tomorrow’s vehicles and enhance the driving experience in an Audi.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A fuel cell kit is used, which comprises the stack, anode supply module including hydrogen gas injector and recirculation blower, electronic control unit, electric air compressor and components for the hydrogen storage system, and even a large number of sensors.

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Electrek

AUGUST 23, 2021

By focusing on all-electric conversion kits for fleet vehicles, as well as manufacturing electric motorcycles and energy systems, Opibus is on a mission to implement clean electric mobility in the emerging markets of Africa. Our latest EVS is on Opibus, a company headquartered in Kenya that was born out of a research project in Sweden.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Keep an Emergency Kit in your Electric Vehicle. Arming yourself with an emergency car kit can help give you peace of mind if you happen to get stranded in the elements. It should include items such as granola bars, a reflective blanket, rope or cordage and a first aid kit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2020

Suitable for a variety of mobility solutions, the EREV van platform can also be retrofitted to products including commercial delivery fleet vehicles, shuttle buses, tradesman service vehicles, camper vans and more.

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Plug In India

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One was the conversion kit by Hyderabad based e-Trio, and the other was Pune based Northway Motorsports. Only when a kit provider has successfully got certified can they start selling the kit in the market. Challenges for Kit Makers Now here is the big limitation kit providers face. What about the original OEM?

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