Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

Southern California’s largest heavy-duty electric truck charging depot, powered by the US’s largest electric truck microgrid, is now online and fueled by natural gas. Electrek’s Take Prologis and Maersk are powering this microgrid, and thus Southern California’s largest heavy-duty electric truck charging depot, with natural gas.

Gas-Electric 52

Gas-Electric Gas Power Powered 52

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. Power reduction requirements have been phased in over time and increased from 70% to 80% in 2020.

Oakland 321

Oakland San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles 321

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

A plug-in parallel hybrid electric terminal tractor used to move shipping containers and cargo within the port will be tested at a Port of Long Beach shipping terminal. The equipment will be tested at SSA Container Terminal on Pier A at the Port of Long Beach for 3 months. Andra Rogers. Mobile, Ala.,

Long Beach 199

Long Beach EPRI Plug-in Convert 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

s (TMNA) Logistics Services Center at the Port of Long Beach in California. megawatts (MW) of electricity—enough to power Toyota Logistics Services Center—and will add renewable electricity to the grid, as well as produce roughly 1,400 gallons of water a day that will be used for car-washing operations.

Renewable 199

Renewable Hydrogen Supplies North America 199

Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

megawatts of power, currently the highest-speed charger available in the US, along with solar and battery backup on-site and a unique partially grid-islanded setup. WattEV has just opened the first electric truck charging depot in the US to use the new Megawatt Charge System, capable of delivering up to 1.2

Solar 52

Solar Charging Los Angeles Grid 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. Recipients included Motiv Power Systems, Inc.,

Los Angeles 170

Los Angeles Clean Cleaning Transportation 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

Charging rates and scenarios: Under what charging scenarios can a target facility maximize the fraction of trips successfully charged while minimizing power demands and expected infrastructure costs? The sixteen scenarios varied traction battery capacities between 300 and 1000 kWh and charging station power from 50 to 800 kW.

Fleet 268

Fleet Charging Grid Energy Storage 268

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. The fleet also failed to reduce the auxiliary engine power generation by the required 50%.

2014 170

2014 2017 Oakland California 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM is embracing the use of communications standards that operate with optional data transports to enable smart charging and integration with the emerging smart grid. PLC=Power Line Communications. A network of smart loads with communications to report their current state and act on smart grid commands. Source: GM.

Grid 239

Grid Plug-in Standards Plug 239

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, and Fincantieri, the Italian merchant and naval shipbuilder, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the construction, marketing and supply of high-voltage shore connection (HVSC) systems to provide electricity to vessels in port. Diagram of HVSC system. Click to enlarge.

San Diego 186

San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Power 186

Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

That push is particularly focused on the trucking routes between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the distribution centers of the Inland Empire – which Ontario lies at the heart of. Fueling with highly compressed hydrogen (700 bar) is a little more complicated than uncompressed diesel or high-powered DC chargers.

Hydrogen 52

Hydrogen Kenworth Long Beach Oakland 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2015

million to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to build and to test seven hybrid fuel-cell, Class 8 trucks to transport cargo at the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports. The California Energy Commission approved a grant of $2.4

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Grant Long Beach Energy 150

Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2009

It’s been a long time coming, but we have finally achieved the first “cold ironing&# of a tanker in the Port of Long Beach. Normally, these engines crank out massive amounts of pollution, equal to “a day’s worth of driving by 187,000 cars,&# according to estimates by the Port of Long Beach.

Plug-in 124

Plug-in Long Beach Plug Pollution 124

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

a provider of smart grid software, will provide its latest generation of electric vehicle management software ( earlier post ), Smart Charging 3.0, The company made the announcement at the Plug-In 2009 Conference and Exposition in Long Beach, CA. Tags: Plug-ins Smart Grid. GridPoint, Inc., Earlier post.)

Nissan 210

Nissan Charging Grid Plug-in 210

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Beginning in 2024 the cars will be powered by hybrid engines. Capstone provides sustainable energy alternatives with microturbines, EV charging, solar, battery energy storage and generators for prime and standby power. That left us with power to run an EV charger. Many of the team transporters will also be using biofuels.

Green 86

Green Indianapolis Clean Cleaning 86

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Highways & Regional Routes: The new Cycle 2 investments will continue to build out a highway network of DCFC stations featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts which can recharge a vehicle at up to 20 miles of range per minute. Santa Cruz-Watsonville. Santa Rosa. San Diego-Carlsbad.

California 290

California America San Jose Sacramento 290

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Highways & Regional Routes: The new Cycle 2 investments announced today will continue to build out a highway network of DCFC stations featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts which can refuel a vehicle at up to 20 miles of range per minute. Santa Cruz-Watsonville. Santa Rosa.

America 239

America California Emissions Vehicles 239

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Its first model was an electric adaptation of its conventional diesel-powered VNR tractor. It had a 264 kWh battery pack powering the tractor’s twin motors with more than 4,000 lb-ft of torque and a range estimated at up to 150 miles. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5

Volvo 131

Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 131

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

Utilities, vehicle-to-home (V2H), and vehicle-to-grid (V2G). Key for success here is working with utilities and emerging standards for messaging and communications between the vehicle and the grid and utility. Utility partnership and renewable power generation. Let’s figure out V2H—then we can figure everything else out. ”

Ford 231

Ford Batteries Battery Plug-in 231

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Alison Diaz (with scissors) along with ECHS staff and supporters about to cut the ribbon in front of Environmental Charter High School's new solar-powered greenhouse. and “How am I Powerful?”. Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse.

Solar 150

Solar Minneapolis Water Grant 150

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

The site was built with maximum flexibility so that we could change things, swap out chargers, move things around and learn from the process of installing battery electric storage or putting solar on the site or what a megawatt charging unit would do under full power in partnership with the utility. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt

Fleet 52

Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Plugs and Cars

MAY 19, 2007

Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. Simply put, as the first sentence of the article states, [W]hen consumers understand what plug-in hybrids are, they want them. Wonder why?

Plug-in 100

Plug-in Plug Hybrid Industrial 100

Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

The charging hub will support NFI’s fleet of 50 heavy-duty electric trucks, which perform drayage operations in and around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Microgrid functionality will enable charging resiliency for fleet operations even when grid power is unavailable.

California 52

California Los Angeles Long Beach Charging 52

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 29, 2009

In this case for GRID Alternatives at a low income home in my old neighborhood in Long Beach, California. GRID Alternatives is my absolutely favorite group to work hands-on with because we do so much more than just inform and build awareness. Thanks to them, a family’s electricity is now solar-powered.

Grid 170

Grid Los Angeles Climate Change Long Beach 170

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car. If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. Save your money. You could too.

Convert 150

Convert Plug-in i-MiEV Plug 150

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

We both know that 20% of California’s electric power is used just to move water from the North down here to the South and all the other places it goes. I volunteer with GRID Alternatives installing solar panels on low income and Habitat for Humanity houses. I’ve been blogging on the environment since October of 2007.

Climate Change 170

Climate Change Los Angeles Climate Water 170

Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Continued support and educating people; especially people who are skeptic about pulling more electricity from the dirty grids who are using fossil fuels to power EV charge stations. Efficient and transparent leadership Michael’s Candidate Statement: Electric vehicles are a superior product to legacy, gasoline powered products.

Arkansas 52

Arkansas Electric Vehicles Re-Charge Solar 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Although two containers are shown here, the actual number of containers would depend on the power and energy requirements of the vessel to be powered. This practice in which a vessel at berth connects to a source of electricity on the shore is called “cold-ironing”, shore power or Alternative Maritime Power (AMP).

Fuel 191

Fuel Hawaii Hydrogen Honolulu 191

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, the high power requirements of these vehicles mean that vehicle designers face unique technical challenges, especially when it comes to circuit protection. Then you have to look at longer-range vehicles, and that’s when I suspect you’re going to see them go above 1,000 volts, because they have to pack more power into the device.

Standards 73

Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

I’ve been talking about doing this for a long time now – ever since my colleagues at 350.org org began taking 3 month long sabbaticals a few years ago and the whole notion of a sabbatical hit my radar screen. That’s when I also started doing radio commentaries for KLON FM-88 in Long Beach, then an NPR affiliate.

Los Angeles 284

Los Angeles Climate Washington All-Electric 284

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The 29-seater bus is also designed to serve as a mobile emergency power source that can plug into the grid during outages. But that’s exactly the case being made by SpinLaunch, a startup based in Long Beach, Calif., Christopher Payne/Esto Whip It Out.

BYD 52

BYD Long Beach Carbon Fiber Plugin 52

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? Plugging into the SoCal grid, in this case, SoCal Edison, this PHEV tug is significantly cleaner than its diesel burning brethren.

Long Beach 100

Long Beach Los Angeles Lead Acid Electric 100

Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

The first piece of the puzzle, which is now under construction, is the Bakersfield Electric Truck Stop, a 110-acre, 40-megawatt, solar-powered, electric-only public truck stop. For the EV chargers, we’re going to be using CCS dispensers from [power supply manufacturer] Phihong originally. Salim: Absolutely.

Charging 91

Charging Re-Charge Volvo Hydrogen 91

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

The eBox above from AC Propulsion is sending power to and from the grid right there on the Long Beach Convention Center floor. Gridpoint makes the software that ties all the infrastructure together and makes V2G not only possible but easy to do and effective.

i-MiEV 170

i-MiEV 2009 Plug-in Volt 170