Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Utilities should serve as trusted infrastructure providers that can be leveraged to collaborate across a broad range of industry stakeholders, educate customers, help standardize systems of charging equipment for trucks and ensure safe deployment of charging sites. HDR completed the study.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2023

On 21 April 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened to the public. government committed US $9 million to help build a NASA-themed science exhibit at the Seattle World’s Fair. Clair Omar Musser, an engineer working for Scientific Space Industries, a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft, took up the challenge. What is an orrery?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2018

The T680 has been running trials in the Seattle area and performing very well. According to Olsen, the hydrogen fuel-cell based Kenworth T680 will have an initial range of 150 miles (241 km), which makes it suited for short haul and port operations. The next step is real-world testing with Total Transportation Services Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Level 2 charging will provide for a charging speed up to 20-25 miles of driving range per hour, which would allow drivers to fully charge their electric vehicles at their home or workplace. The 2,800 Level 2 charging stations will be located at approximately 500 sites, all with more than one charging station.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2018

The range of the chargE can exceed 120 miles (193 km), while the powertrain can deliver up to 260 kW (about 349 peak horsepower).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Metro serves Seattle and the rest of King County. The 40-foot Catalyst buses have an estimated range of about 25 miles, with a quick charging time of just 10 minutes. Charging stations to support the initial orders of those buses will range from $5.5 based Proterra. million to $6.6 Last year, King County Metro received a $3.3-million

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2014

Boeing, Etihad Airways, Takreer (Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company), Total and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will collaborate on a new initiative to support a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in the United Arab Emirates.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2023

We’re monitoring whether the use of Tesla Superchargers by non-Tesla owners will affect satisfaction, but the move does help address charger scarcity and offer access to industry-leading reliable chargers. Reasons range from the charger being inoperable to long lines to use the charger. EV owners in the Miami-Port St.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Blue Marble uses novel bacterial consortia to produce specialty biochemicals from the anaerobic fermentation of a range of biomass feedstocks. Stephens says UM’s favorable attitude toward industry partnerships was one factor in the decision to move the company from Seattle to Missoula in 2010. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

SMC is a form of thermoset chopped fiber composite; glass fiber reinforced SMC is already commonly in use in the automotive industry. However, the PHV model will benefit substantially more than the base model, due to the increase in full-electric range from lightweighting.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2015

grade, unprecedented in this test by an electric bus, making it an option to serve metropolitan areas with challenging topography in West Coast cities, including San Francisco and Seattle. The transit industry has traditionally struggled with vehicle weight, especially for new technologies like hybrid, CNG and EV.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2017

System-level models of the engine, catalytic converter, and gasoline particulate filter will be integrated across length scales, incorporating effects ranging from clogging and regeneration of the filter pores, to continuum gas flow in the exhaust manifold.

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EV Match

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What originally started as a heavy-duty alternative fuels industry event has evolved into a broader clean fleet conference. The utility programs discussed were diverse, ranging from residential Level 2 direct install programs, utility-owned DC fast charging infrastructure deployments in urban villages, and bus charging pilots at transit hubs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2015

The seven cities with the highest electric vehicle share in 2014—San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, and Riverside—had two to seven times the average US electric vehicle share. Manufacturers are targeting these markets, a wider range of EV models are available, and sales are up as a result.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

To equip Indonesian engineers with globally competitive skills, Grab will provide training opportunities at its R&D centers in Singapore, Beijing and Seattle. Under the plan, Grab will invest US$700 million in Indonesia over the next four years to support Indonesia’s goal of becoming Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

After the algal biomass is harvested, it will be sent to Seattle-based Inventure for conversion into fuel and other valuable products such as renewable chemicals. The company can process a variety of algae species including salt water and fresh water species, converting it to a range of biofuels and chemicals. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

Predominant sources are combustion related; namely, fossil fuels for transportation, solid fuels for industrial and residential uses, and open burning of biomass. Total global emissions of black carbon using bottom-up inventory methods are 7500 Gg yr -1 in the year 2000 with an uncertainty range of 2000 to 29000. W m -2 range).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

industry, agriculture, domestic use), the thermoelectric power sector is one of the largest water users in the US (at 40%) and in Europe (43% of total surface water withdrawals). Both SRES A2 and B1 were selected, because they represent contrasting storylines and indicate the largest range from the four IPCC SRES main emissions scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

The five cities were Calgary, San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. A majority of members use public transit less frequently; walk more frequently; use taxis less frequently; and have a range of impacts on other modes. Among the key takeways of the study were that, first, car2go has a diverse impact on travel behavior.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2009

At team of researchers from Solix Biofuels ( earlier post ), Colorado State University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have calculated both an absolute upper limit to solar-based algal oil production as well as a feasible target range for production based on realistic efficiencies (calculated for six global sites). Weyer et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

In collaboration with the Administration, 46 industry members signed on to the following Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. This commitment signifies the beginning of a collaboration between the government and industry to increase the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

The Pacific Northwest has the diverse feedstocks, fuel-delivery infrastructure and political will needed to create a viable biofuels industry capable of reducing greenhouse gases and meeting the future fuel demands of the aviation industry, according to a newly-released study by Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to an invoice from a Seattle-area BMW service center shared on Reddit , the owner was quoted $64,588 for parts last August. This all adds to cost, with an industry survey conducted by JD Power stipulating that the typical price of a new battery for pure EVs and plug-in hybrids typically ranges between $4,000 to $20,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

Alongside proving the economic benefits found in fleet electrification, the innovation of the dollar per gallon-equivalent metric provides stakeholders the clarity to assess, plan, and budget for electric fleet transition and accelerate the industry beyond the pilot phase to full deployment. —i.e.,

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2024

Seattle-based startup Hubble Network announced today that it had a letter of understanding with San Francisco-based startup Life360 to develop a global, satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) tracking system. There is a massive enterprise and industrial market for ‘send only’ applications,” says Alex Haro , CEO of Hubble Network.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Production of lithium-ion cells, modules, and battery packs for industrial and agricultural vehicles and defense application markets.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 6, 2024

But thanks to efficiency improvements Rivian notes that ranges start at 258 EPA miles , and even Standard Pack versions are expected to roll in at 270 miles—the same range as provided by the 106-kwh Standard Pack for Gen 1, to underscore how pronounced the efficiency improvements are. Level 2 charging remains at a max 48 amps (11.5

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2024

More specifically, our goal is to enable a collaborative robot or industrial robot arm to perform food-slicing tasks by adapting to varying material properties using compliance control. We study the problem of hanging a wide range of grasped objects on diverse supporting items. and NVIDIA, Seattle, Wash.,

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle — with even greater fuel economy possible utilizing bio-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

BAE Systems has entered into an agreement with Crane Carrier Company, a US market leader in the refuse collection vehicle (RCV) industry, to integrate a heavy-duty hybrid electric propulsion system into one of its vehicles. The HybriDrive parallel system is based on a single electric machine integrated between the engine and the transmission.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

But Smith, who became director of the division’s graphics group, soon realized that Lucas didn’t fully understand what computer graphics could do for the film industry, he told The Institute in 2018. Carpenter had been working in the computer-aided design group at Boeing , in Seattle, where he developed procedural modeling.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Rad Power Bikes, the Seattle-based electric bike maker that spent years at the top of the US e-bike sellers list, has occasionally rolled out major updates alongside the launch of a new model. Rad Power Bikes Safe Shield Battery: I think it’s hard to overstate how pivotal this will be for the e-bike industry.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

Nonetheless, due to a range of issues, Tesla has had a consistent problem with servicing its ever-growing group of customers’ needs. A couple of options have been put forward by industry professionals and Twitter users alike. Musk is set out to change this, and owners should have many reasons to be optimistic!

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

King County Metro, the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle, will soon begin testing long-range battery-powered buses that can travel more than 140 miles on a single charge, the latest milestone toward a zero-emission fleet.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2015

A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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