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Hyundai bringing XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks to California

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Hyundai will leverage insights gained from these public projects to develop it’s zero-emission commercial fleet business in the US and establish local partnerships across the value chain. Glovis America, a logistics service provider, will be the fleet operator of these trucks.

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Four Next-Generation Fuel Cell Buses Introduced in Hartford

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Only the Greater Oakland/San Francisco, Calif., area will have a larger fuel cell bus fleet in the United States, also equipped with UTC Power fuel cell systems. CTTransit is building a new garage to store up to six fuel cell buses, and the agency also plans to install a hydrogen fueling station on-site.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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The pilot is being offered to select Ford Credit customers in California—including Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco; as well as in Portland, Oregon; Chicago and Washington, D.C. The service offers customers flexible, practical and affordable access to a fleet of cars for one-way journeys with easy parking throughout London.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.)

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World’s first hydrogen station for commercial trucks opens – is it too late?

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FirstElement Fuels has opened the world’s first large-scale hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty commercial trucks just outside the Port of Oakland. Primary funding for the Oakland station was provided by CARB and the California Energy Commission. Electricity that it says will come from the stored hydrogen.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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The first one is fleet charging, and this is not just municipalities, this is the federal government, US Marine Corps, many others. They’re charging their own fleet vehicles. And when we talk about fleet, of course that’s a very broad group. So that’s fleet. Now you’re putting fuel into your fleet vehicles as a zero unit.

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Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

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This, the Sandia team said, is because their multi-megawatt power requirements and potentially long run times would necessitate multiple MW-class fuel cell units and impractically-large stores of hydrogen. Oakland, Calif.; The Port of Oakland is installing 11 berths on six terminals at an estimated cost of about $70 million.

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