Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The new research report, Industrial Biorefineries , puts the installed capacity of the current fleet of approximately 1,415 biorefineries—scattered predominately across the. United States, Brazil, and Europe—at 34.6 BGY of installed capacity worldwide in. These conventional biorefineries are now giving way to a growing number of.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Odyne plug-in hybrid drive system reduces fleet operating and maintenance costs, and depending on duty cycle, enables large trucks to obtain significant fuel economy improvements compared to traditional diesel engines. Although the county automotive fleet includes hybrids, these are the first hybrid trucks they are putting to work.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2010

million federal stimulus grant to build electric trucks. FedEx showcased a prototype of the eStar electric truck during last month’s “Charge Up Route 66” tour that began in Chicago and ended in Los Angeles as part of the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fleets. e-Star Quick Specs. 80 kWh Li-ion pack.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2011

As part of the transaction, ABB will have two representatives appointed to ECOtality’s Board of Directors. In addition, ECOtality and ABB have formed a manufacturing agreement establishing ABB as the preferred supplier of ECOtality’s power electronics and component parts in North America.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The modular configuration is a part of Proterra’s approach to electrifying mass transit routes across the United States. Moreover, the contract seeks to match and qualify contract users with federal grant and/or stimulus funds. This new RFP selection enables other Pacific Northwest transit fleets to begin similar or larger programs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Chrysler unveiled four all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivan concepts to the US Postal Service (USPS) in Washington, DC, as part of the USPS Earth Day celebration. One of the electric mini-van prototypes. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Europe had already faced uncertainty on the CO 2 fleet target timetable and UK and European Union trade talks. Europe will see mixed recovery cycles, as a result of local restrictions and varied economic support and stimulus. The latest IHS Markit forecast sees North American production dropping to 12.2

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

Here is part of the NY Times editorial. should promise to order 50,000 fleet vehicles of the first viable plug-in hybrid — that would be just the stimulus the carmakers need. He also makes the point, that plug ins will provide more energy security and less global warming. Instead, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

ZAP and Jonway partnered on the production of an electric version of the compact 5-door Jonway A380 SUV, integrating AC propulsion and lithium-ion battery system technologies to produce a mid-range electric vehicle (EV) that ZAP intends to offer to the fleet market in China. The conventional A380 is powered by a 1.6- liter Mitsubishi engine.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This will take place within the framework of the German economic stimulus package (Konjunkturpaket II) and other national and state programs to jointly address standardization and cost reduction issues. A fleet of 40 hydrogen vehicles is part of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) in Berlin and Hamburg. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The study by Dr. Jeremy Michalek and colleagues found that while a fleet with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with universal high electric range (i.e., kW h electricity, $400/kW h Li-ion batteries, $600/kWh NiMH batteries, and 5% discount rate, PHEVs are part of the least-cost solution for gas prices above $2.6/gal,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

But, the report identifies clear opportunities, especially in light of infrastructure-related stimulus investment, to get this right. Time needed for turnover of inefficient “legacy” truck fleet. —CEC Executive Director Evan Lloyd. Lack of integrated land-use and freight transportation planning.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

A Bay Area group is submitting a proposal in an effort to attract Federal stimulus dollars to implement infrastructure in the region. The mayor is also attempting to attract large regional employers to the region that will embrace electric cars as part of their company fleets. Now he is welcoming the competition.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

Part of the swing in culture has been a downturn in new car sales. Late last week it raised its full-year profit forecast on the hope that green stimulus efforts around the world will push consumers to offload older vehicles in favour of newer, more eco-friendly alternatives. per cent compared to the same time last year and, at Y7.56

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

SBESC's Marilyn Lyon talks about Federal Stimulus Funding / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. We also learned from Marilyn Lyon that Federal Stimulus money will be coming L.A. More to come on these zero emission vehicles in another post.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

In 2008 the company released a test fleet of 450 Mini-E vehicles and is getting ready to announce its second phase. The firm eTec got $100 million in funding from the US Department of Energy through the stimulus bill. Bob Lutz, the outgoing vice chairman of GM, has said the company will produce about 8,000 Chevy Volts in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This year’s Index finds that 2018 greenhouse gas emissions—the latest year for which data are available—rose overall for the first time since 2012, driven in part by increases in the power and commercial sectors. This is plausibly due to bus fleets becoming cleaner or electrified.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Some transportation experts are skeptical that electric vehicles will catch on anywhere in the country, in large part because the batteries and the installation of home recharging units are expensive. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Postal Service Minivan - Click above for high-res gallery Chrysler is celebrating Earth Day today by unveiling the first four of what will be a fleet of 250 battery-powered minivans for the U.S. The initial batch of vehicles include a pair of right- and left-hand drive versions, and the total fleet will include a mix of both.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

However, these results are being driven in part by elevated incentive levels, which represent a meaningful risk to the long-term health of the auto industry. Fleet sales are expected to total 252,900 units in November, down 9.3% Fleet volume is expected to account for 18.3% The SAAR for total sales is projected at 17.9

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an Electric Recharge Grid across the entire country. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. The company went on to design and manufacture mobile-phone handsets and parts for Motorola ( MOT , Fortune 500 ), Nokia ( NOK ), Sony Ericsson, and Samsung. More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express?

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

My attentiveness to Waco and Mclennan County has led to deeper and more informative discussions concerning fleet and transit vehicles, as well as my appointment to the city of Waco’s Sustainable Resource Practices Advisory Board. In this part of Texas, it’s a mix of a few big cities and a lot of small towns. Am I making progress?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s The best part? ’s power generation, he said.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Seattle says it intends to help develop the charging network; consider incentives for buying and using the cars, and creating charging stations; consider regulatory changes to support the cars, such as streamlined permitting for installing charging outlets; and consider leasing or buying the cars for its fleet.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Claim to fame: part and parcel of the regulations-driven surge, Portugal went from 4.9% I finally got hold of reported total bus fleets and bus replacement rates in Europe. For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k EV share, with ~20k sold.

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