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Oshkosh Defense Gas & Electric Mail Trucks To Be Powered By Ford
InsideEVs
JUNE 24, 2021
Oshkosh Defense recently won the bid for the US' next-generation postal trucks
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Nikola One 2000-hp natural gas-electric semi truck announced
Green Car Reports
MAY 17, 2016
There is now a second company named after inventor Nikola Tesla—and it too plans to build electric vehicles. Trucks natural gas plug-in cars Commercial vehicle semisWhat will Elon Musk think of this? Unlike Tesla Motors, though, the first products of the newly-revealed Nikola (pronounced Neek-oh-la) Motor Company won't be a sports car or a luxury sedan. DON'T MISS: Recovered Energy And.
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2020 Ford Escape Hybrid preview: gas-electric now, plug-ins later
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
By spring 2020, the Ford Escape Hybrid will once again be the most important battery vehicle in the automaker's lineup. The 2020 Escape Hybrid goes on sale early next year, and with the C-Max departed from its lineup, the 2020 Escape will give Ford an electrified vehicle to appeal to drivers left in the lurch when the last Escape Hybrid was
Gas, Electricity, Hydrogen: How Many Cars Can 'Fuel' And What Will It Cost?
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 26, 2015
Gas stations are ubiquitous across the world, many with diesel pumps as well, to fuel the more than 1 billion vehicles now roaming the surface of our planet. California hydrogen hydrogen fuel cell government subsidy charging infrastructure gas station Tesla SuperchargerAs regulators get increasingly serious about reducing carbon emissions from transportation, we'll see competing sites for refueling or recharging zero-emission vehicles emerge--the first.
Virginia Governor signs legislation and executive order beginning transition of state vehicles to natural gas, electricity or other alternative fuels
Green Car Congress
JULY 13, 2011
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has signed two pieces of legislation that promote the use of natural gas, electric or other alternative-fueled vehicles in the Commonwealth. Excludes third party retail sales of vehicle charging electricity from qualification as a “public utility,” “public service corporation,” or “public service company.” Electric (Battery) Fuels Natural Gas Policy
Chevy Bolt EV, Sonic, Bolt, Sonic: GM mingles gas, electric cars on same assembly line
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
General Motors didn't have to construct an all-new assembly plant to build its affordable, mass-market Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. In fact, it produces the electric car at the existing Orion assembly plant in Michigan, which opened in 1983. Production factory plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) assembly plantsThat's not the most interesting aspect of Bolt EV production, though: GM actually builds the.
'Fossil fuels are dead,' says CSX railroad chief: no more new trains for coal, ever
Green Car Reports
JULY 31, 2017
natural gas electric utilities energy fossil fuelsThe industrial revolution that began around 1750 was powered in large part by coal, and the carbon-rich fuel had 200 good years after that. By the middle of the last century, however, serious studies had begun of its deleterious effects on human health—and that was before the climate-change impact of human emissions of carbon dioxide became.
Another study confirms electric cars have lower carbon emissions, in Minnesota this time
Green Car Reports
MAY 9, 2016
It's a very reasonable question: electric cars themselves have no tailpipe emissions, but what about the power plants used to recharge them? In North America, an electric car charged on even the dirtiest, most coal-intensive electric grid in the nation. Carbon Footprint emissions Minnesota greenhouse gas electric utilities plug-in cars
Solar and PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric)
Honda S2000 EV Conversion
JUNE 7, 2009
I've been getting a few questions about my solar and how it all works in regards to the power company. I'll do my best to explain it. The solar is directly connected to the grid through the inverter. The inverter is designed to not send power into the grid if the electricty is off. This prevents the power company from getting shocked if they shut down their side and want to be sure no solar systems are now powering those lines.
British Gas and Mitsubishi team up for electric cars
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 22, 2012
A unique partnership has been formed between Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi and British Gas, which will see the latter as the exclusive supplier of electric vehicle charging solutions for Mitsubishi within the UK. Mitsubishi has been leading the way with electric cars since 2009 when it launched the Mitsubishi i-MiEV (pictured) and it is pioneering plug-in [.].
Solar panels: drive 1,000 miles for just a fiver
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Nissan British Gas electric car leaf Robert Llewellyn solarActor-come-EV advocate Robert Llewellyn has become a example of how it is truly possible to slash the cost of motoring and drive in a genuinely zero emission way. The TV personality has proven it is possible to drive a 1,000 miles for just over five pounds thanks to solar panels installed at his home by [.].
British Gas to install home charging for Nissan Leaf customers
Green Cars News
MARCH 2, 2011
British Gas has been named as the preferred supplier of EV recharging points for the Nissan Leaf, which makes its first UK deliveries this month. A deal between the energy giant and the Japanese car maker means that British Gas will supply and install electric car charging points in homes and businesses across the country, [.]. Electric cars Nissan British Gas electric car leaf recharging points solar panels
Jemena and Coregas partner on green hydrogen for New South Wales transport industry
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2021
Australian energy infrastructure company Jemena and gas supply company Coregas are partnering to advance the use of green hydrogen for the transport industry in New South Wales. The green hydrogen will be produced at Jemena’s $15-million Western Sydney Green Gas demonstration project.
CNPC’s first hydrogen station in Beijing in operation
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 5, 2021
As the first batch of pilot projects of CNPC in the new energy field, the hydrogen stations in operation lay a foundation for the company’s future extensive deployment of hydrogen stations and the construction of hybrid stations of oil, gas, electricity, and hydrogen.
No, coal isn't coming back: the reasons in 5 charts
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 16, 2016
energy policy natural gas electric utilities fossil fuelsThe coal industry is on the decline, but the reason for that decline has become a subject of political debate. Supporters of fossil fuels blame the energy policies of the outgoing Obama Administration, claiming the emphasis on renewable energy and lowering carbon emissions puts coal at a disadvantage. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to.
BYD supplying Li-ion batteries for stationary energy storage to Green Charge
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 19, 2017
Tom Solar farm to serve Holyoke Gas & Electric in western Massachusetts. Designed to optimize intermittent solar energy and contribute to rate stabilization for Holyoke Gas & Electric customers over the next 20 years, this energy storage project will be the largest utility-scale energy storage installation in Massachusetts. In addition, BYD is the largest consumer electric vehicle and electric bus manufacturer in the world.
CO electric-car incentives, renewable diesel, Nikola One semi truck: Today's Car News
Green Car Reports
MAY 17, 2016
Today, Colorado simplifies its electric-car tax incentives, Neste claims very low "well-to-wheels" carbon emissions for its renewable diesel, and the Nikola One is a 2,000-horsepower natural gas-electric semi truck. The Nikola One is a 2,000-hp natural gas-electric semi truck from a second company named.
Stockton school district partners with Mobility House for electric school bus charging; savings of $500K over 5 years
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2021
Completed in less than one year, the electric school bus fleet project is part of a series of electrification initiatives by the Stockton Unified School District to become the nation’s leading zero-emission school district. Bus Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Market Background
Does a Hybrid Need a Special Charger?
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 6, 2010
I'm thinking of doing a gas/electric hybrid conversion (using a small motorcycle engine to power the charging circuit) - My question is what resources
California Public Utilities Commission approves 15 transportation electrification pilot projects focusing on disadvantaged communities
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 12, 2018
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved 15 pilot projects aimed at helping to accelerate electric vehicle adoption, with a focus on disadvantaged communities. The decision approves, with modifications, four Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) projects, five Southern California Edison (SCE) projects, and six San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) projects designed to speed adoption of electric vehicles, improve air quality, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Volvo LIGHTS team helps facilitate authorization for public MDHD EV charging stations in California
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The decision also applies to charging service providers for off-road EVs or off-road electric equipment. San Diego Gas & Electric’s Electric Rule 18 already provided a clear exemption and did not require modification.
Tesla Gigafactory tour, 100k Chevy Volts, Nikola One semi truck: Today's Car News
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 2, 2016
Today, an engineer takes a tour of the Tesla battery "gigafactory," Nikola Motors says it will unveil a running prototype of its natural gas-electric semi truck in December, and the Chevrolet Volt passes 100,000 U.S. deliveries. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Nikola Motors says it will unveil a running prototype of its Nikola One natural. Today in Car News
Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Carries Over, Eco Gets 32 MPG--But Where's That Plug-In?
Green Car Reports
JULY 3, 2014
Hyundai says the Sonata Hybrid will stick with its existing gas-electric drivetrain and body style through the 2015 model year, while the rest of the range takes on a more subdued look and more refined powertrains for the new model year. The 2015 Hyundai Sonata is nearly entirely new--save for the steadily improving Hybrid edition.
State fees, penalties on electric cars proliferate this year
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Several different states have continued to propose new fees for electric-car owners as a way to pay for road repairs. The fees are typically meant as a substitute for the gasoline taxes that, because they don't buy gas, electric-car owners don't pay. government taxes Gas Tax plug-in cars state laws transportation policyAdvocates have criticized these fees, saying they effectively penalize drivers for reducing.
CMU team evaluates range and battery tradeoffs between vehicle automation and electrification
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2020
A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has used a vehicle dynamics model to evaluate the trade-off between automation and electric vehicle range and battery longevity. Autonomous driving Electric (Battery) Fuel Efficiency
Careful Bus deploys school buses in NYC outfitted with XL hybrid systems
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2018
The XLH system uses regenerative braking during deceleration and electric assist during acceleration to increase fuel economy. The new hybrid gas/electric school buses are a fit for the company’s commitment to clean energy and the city’s ongoing initiatives to reduce emissions and fossil fuel reliance, and Careful Bus plans to dedicate 5-10% of its fleet bus purchases to XL hybrid electric vehicles each year moving forward.
When lauding renewables, look at utilization, not just capacity
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 17, 2017
By some measures, large-scale renewable energy is now cost-competitive (or close) with the most efficient natural-gas electric plants. electric utilities renewable energy solar clean energy energy wind energyThe news on the renewable energy front continues to be good, with the costs of wind and solar generation falling steadily. Moreover, the amounts of clean generating capacity installed continue to rise, both in.
California Public Utilities Commission approves PG&E EV charging program for 7,500 charging stations in NorCal
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2016
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously voted to approve Charge Smart and Save, a program initiated by Pacific Gas & Electric to deploy 7,500 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across Northern California. Under the approved program , PG&E will primarily deploy stations at multi-family dwellings and workplaces, with electricity price based on time-of-use to encourage drivers to fill up during off-peak hours or when renewable energy is abundant.
ECOtality to offer Silver Spring Networks’ platform to enable EV charging station load control solutions
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2011
announced an agreement to integrate ECOtality’s Blink electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with the Silver Spring Smart Energy Platform. Silver Spring has numerous deployments with leading utilities around the world, including Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Inc., ECOtality, Inc. and Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
Next 10-UC Berkeley study suggests additional tax revenue or income-based rate structure to make electricity more affordable for Californians
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Source: Designing Electricity Rates for An Equitable Energy Transition. What Californians pay is much higher than the true marginal cost of using electricity. This puts an unnecessary cost burden on low- and middle-income households as we transition to using clean electricity.
Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for ‘Carbon Zero 1’ renewable jet and diesel production plant
Green Car Congress
JUNE 21, 2021
By utilizing hydroelectric electricity and carbon sequestration along with negative carbon intensity hydrogen, the Aemetis plant is expected to produce among the lowest carbon intensity renewable jet and diesel fuel in the world. Our goal is to eliminate the use of petroleum natural gas in our plant as these upgrade projects are completed over the next 12 months. million of grants from the California Energy Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
2012 Tesla Model S Electric Sedan: 238 Miles Of Range, Says Motor Trend
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 28, 2012
Whether you drive gas, electric or anything else, there are dozens of different factors that affect your car's efficiency. That's why, even though Tesla Motors claims a range of 265 miles for its 85 kWh Model S, we've been eager to see how far it can go in realistic day-to-day driving. Thanks to Motor Trend, we now know. The magazine borrowed
GM CEO optimistic on potential for Envia Li-ion batteries with silicon anodes
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2012
In a separate agreement, GM secured the right to use Envia’s advanced cathode material for future GM electrically driven vehicles. These little companies come out of nowhere, and they surprise you,” Akerson said in response to a question about GM’s strategy on gas-electric hybrid vehicles. Akerson said the company is looking at hybrids, all-electric cars, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and natural gas vehicles, as well as developing more efficient petroleum-powered engines.
7 Common Hybrid Myths and Misconceptions Debunked
Clean Fleet Report
JULY 5, 2021
Hybrid cars are exactly the same as gas vehicles in terms of driving. There are models that fit every person’s budget, just like with conventional gas cars. While electric cars do have to be plugged in (and plug-in hybrids can be), this is not the case for standard gas-electric hybrids.
ATI and GE Aviation form meltless titanium JV
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2017
It also has a strong presence in the oil & gas, electrical energy, medical, automotive, and other industrial markets. Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI), a producer of technically advanced specialty materials and components, announced a joint venture (JV) with GE Aviation for the development of a new meltless titanium alloy powder manufacturing technology. The JV will construct a new R&D pilot production facility.
I-5 electric truck charging sites mapped out by electric utilities; West Coast Clean Transit Corridor
Green Car Congress
JUNE 18, 2020
The first phase would involve installing 27 charging sites along I-5 at 50-mile intervals for medium-duty electric vehicles, such as delivery vans, by 2025. Electric (Battery) Heavy-duty Infrastructure
13 companies, 8 groups join DOE Workplace Charging Challenge
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 31, 2013
In a speech at the Washington Auto Show, Energy Secretary Chu outlined the new initiative, which aims to expand the availability of workplace charging, increasing the convenience of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and providing drivers with more options. The first 13 employers that have signed the Workplace Charging Pledge as Partners include: 3M, Chrysler Group, Duke Energy, Eli Lilly and Company, Ford, GE, GM, Google, Nissan, San Diego Gas & Electric, Siemens, Tesla, and Verizon.
DOE finalizes a $967M loan guarantee to support the Agua Caliente Solar Project
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2011
These technologies will improve the reliability and predictability of the electricity supplied to the electricity grid. Pacific Gas & Electric Company will purchase power generated from the project. The US Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a $967-million loan guarantee to Agua Caliente Solar, LLC.
800 buses with China Yuchai hybrid and LNG engines ordered for Fushun City
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2014
Out of the 800 new buses ordered, 600 buses were installed with GYMCL’s gas-electric hybrid engines with the remaining 200 buses running on GYMCL’s liquefied natural gas engines. The engines produced by GYMCL range from diesel to natural gas and hybrid engines. GYMCL launched 7 new gas engine models at the start of 2013, for both on-road and off-road applications. GYMCL sold approximately 20,000 gas engines in 2012 and 32,400 in 2013.
Kia Motors America pricing Optima hybrid with MSRP of $26,500
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2011
The 2011 Optima Hybrid uses a full parallel hybrid system and can be driven in zero emission, full-electric drive mode at speeds up to 62 miles per hour or in blended gas-electric mode at any speed. Kia Motors America is pricing the 2011 Optima Hybrid—its first hybrid in the US market—with an MSRP of $26,500.
V2G company Nuvve participating in California’s wholesale energy markets to help balance the grid
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
Nuvve Corporation, a San Diego-based vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology company, is participating in a program to deliver resource adequacy to local utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and California’s electrical grid using a large stationary battery located on the University of California San Diego’s (UC San Diego’s) campus microgrid. Nuvve’s solution enables electric buses, which are parked most hours of the day, to store energy while connected.
Japan V2G demonstrator project using EVs as virtual power plant resource; METI funding
Green Car Congress
JUNE 7, 2018
Seven companies—Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC); SHIZUOKA GAS Co., Commencing today, the project aims to build a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system, and through this a business model that utilizes the electricity storage capabilities of multiple EV/PHEVs to regulate power demand and supply between the grid and electric vehicles. Electric (Battery) Japan Plug-ins V2X
California PUC sets energy storage target for utilities of 1,325 MW by end of 2024
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2013
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) established a combined energy storage target of 1,325 megawatts (MW) for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric by 2020, with installations required no later than the end of 2024. (MW the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, per California’s goals.
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