Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

BYD delivered the first all-electric automated side loader refuse truck to the City of Palo Alto and GreenWaste, the city’s waste hauler service. The BYD electric refuse truck uses its batteries for propulsion, as well as to power the hydraulic system for the body.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The Bureau of Reclamation this fall purchased 27 electric utility vehicles for use at the Grand Coulee Dam. We’re trying to introduce these electric vehicles as a way to offset our current gas fleet vehicles. Neighborhood Electric Vehicles) with plenty of torque to make it up steep grades around the power plant complex.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 29, 2022

It’s an $80 billion industry that accounts for around 450,000 jobs. Electric public transportation is essential to creating cleaner, greener cities. Electric public transportation is essential to creating cleaner, greener cities. However, electric transportation benefits go much further than that.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

EV chargers are more than just high-current electrical outlets. EV charging software manages much more than just topping up the battery in an electric vehicle. Charging-point software – EVs can draw charging current from “dumb” electric outlets. kWs and are included with EVs manufactured in the U.S.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Palo Alto’s government has set a very aggressive Sustainability and Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below the 1990 level by the year 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

During acceleration, the pressurized gas pushes fluid out of the accumulator, actuating the axial piston unit, which now works as a motor. Reduced brake maintenance costs and the associated vehicle downtime offer another significant system savings. Hydraulic energy is converted into kinetic energy.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unfortunately, thanks to the fast pace of electrification and the slow pace of standards bodies, electrical safety standards for heavy vehicles are lagging behind the market. Littelfuse has seen designs using 32 V fuses for 600 V systems, and companies using industrial fuses because high-voltage automotive-qualified fuses aren’t available.

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