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

APRIL 16, 2021

The Washington State legislature has passed legislation that sets a target for all MY2030 or later passenger and light-duty vehicles sold in Washington State to be electric vehicles. Nicole Macri (D-Seattle) as HB 1204, the bill is now the first LDV combustion-engine phaseout target to be passed through the legislative process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Batteries that are light, resilient, and low cost in addition to lasting the lifetime of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Washington State House Transportation Committee voted 17-12 to advance legislation calling for all model year 2030 or later passenger and light-duty vehicles sold in the state to be electric vehicles (EVs). Nicole Macri (D-Seattle) with assistance from Coltura, a Seattle-based nonprofit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Nationally, light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) ridership increased 6.7% Twenty-five of twenty-seven light rail systems reported ridership increases. (Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Fort Myers, FL; Indianapolis, IN; Ithaca, NY; New York, NY; Oakland, CA; Olympia, WA; San Diego, CA; and Tampa, FL).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

In-use testing of three light duty diesel vehicles—certified to US-EPA Tier2-Bin5 and California LEV-II ULEV emissions limits— found a wide variation in real world emissions performance relative to the regulatory limits. Kappanna (2014) “ In-use emissions testing of light-duty diesel vehicles in the US ”. diesels and one 3.0L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

airline (San Francisco to Santa Rosa); the longest flight within the continental United States (Seattle to Miami); and the longest flight in the world (New York to Singapore). Furthermore, indirect emissions, such as those from refining and transport of the fuel, were included by adding 24% of the direct emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. —Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al. —Bishop et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

BME plans to scale from a 1 ton per day demo facility in Seattle, Washington, to a 33 ton per day (1,000 ton per month) pilot facility in Odessa, WA. Light Immersion Technology can be used to grow algae to remediate selenium, zinc, lead, cadmium, boron, mercury, and other undesirable elements and compounds from industrial waste streams.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

A white paper by AMPLY Power, a company providing fleet charging as a service, finds that 25 of America’s largest metropolitan areas could save an average of 37% on fuel costs by electrifying their bus and light-duty vehicle fleets. For both light duty and buses, AMPLY found Atlanta’s DPGe for fleet vehicles to be $1.85.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Seattle, and Washington, DC. The 19 launch markets include: Atlanta, Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Orlando, Fla., Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

Light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) ridership increased 1.6% Ridership in the following cities also saw increases in 2013: Seattle, WA – Sound Transit (9.8%); Pittsburgh, PA (7.5%); Salt Lake City, UT (6.8%); Los Angeles, CA (6.0%); San Jose, CA (3.6%); and Philadelphia, PA (3.5%).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

In August 2011, Ford and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the joint development of a new rear-wheel drive hybrid system for light trucks and SUVs. Chicago saw an 840% gain, while Ford hybrid sales rose almost 730% in Seattle and close to 500% in Washington, DC. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 27, 2025

In places like Seattle, truck accidents are a serious problem. Victims often turn to a Seattle truck accident attorney to prove negligence and get compensation. Common problems include faulty brakes, worn-out tires and broken lights. Busy highways and unpredictable weather make driving risky.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Louis, Phoenix, Seattle, Dallas, Orlando, San Diego and Baton Rouge, Lake Charles and New Orleans—making up the Louisiana I-10 corridor, which runs East-West close to the Gulf of Mexico) with most refueling sites strategically located along major interstate highways and interchanges at existing ConocoPhillips branded retail stations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

The electricity is powering 5,000 homes in Seattle through an agreement with Seattle City Light. The LFGTE process captures methane gas generated as waste decomposes in the landfill and then uses the gas to generate 6 megawatts (MW) of electricity.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 28, 2025

Tech bros at Auburn Hills and Seattle are on the outs after the cancellation of a planned tie-up between the automaker and retail giant. Whether the software would only let users turn on garage lights during the drive home or actually permit them to reorder a box of toilet paper whilst behind the wheel was never really made clear.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

HVSC systems enable ships to draw electricity from onshore power grids while in port to operate onboard equipment as refrigeration units, lighting, cooling and heating systems, instead of burning fuel oil to run electrical generators. Fincantieri and ABB are already collaborating through Seastema S.p.A,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Even for consumer light-duty vehicles, particularly larger size passenger vehicles, limited access to charging infrastructure and/or the substantial recharge time may drive continued demand for alternatives.

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Delaware Transportation Fuel Hydrogen 278

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Reducing the ability of certain bacteria to fix carbon dioxide can greatly increase their production of hydrogen gas, according to a open access paper by Caroline Harwood and James McKinlay from the University of Washington, Seattle, in the current issue of online journal mBio.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2009

Light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) had the highest percentage of annual ridership increase among all modes, with an 8.3% The light rail system that started in November 2007 in Charlotte, NC showed the highest percentage of increase with an annual 862% increase. increase in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

If you want to be cooler, you would wear a light-colored shirt that would reflect the sun’s warmth. —Tim Bates, a research chemist at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle and co-lead of the US component of the study. For the first time, a PMEL black carbon sensor will also be aboard the Mantas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

of total light-duty vehicle sales in 2017. California dominates the tope ten MSAs when ranked by PEV sales, with all six of the top California MSAs in the top ten, along with New York CIty, Chicago, Phoenix and Seattle. penetration, respectively. 4.6%), and Delaware (4.5%).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Nissan and Europcar—the European leader in passenger car and light utility vehicle rentals—are forming a partnership to market electric vehicles by 2010 and advance zero-emission mobility on a global scale. This partnership between Europcar Groupe and Nissan is unique in the vehicle rental market.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ABS light is also continously on and there are 20 years of dents and dings, plus one section that was hit by another car. If this sort of thing interests you, you can snag it for $4,999 in the Seattle area. Indeed, there's a long list of repaired and replaced items in the ad. Click here for more.

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2009

Having already established working relationships in Tennessee; Oregon; Phoenix and Tucson Arizona; as well as Sonoma County and San Diego in California; the Renault-Nissan Alliance will now be working with Seattle to add recharging stations for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

All governments should also support the transition of these light vehicles to zero emission vehicles; Kenya; Secretariat of Economy, Mexico; Morocco; Paraguay; Rwanda; Turkey; Uruguay.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 28, 2025

We caught up with Dilip and his new ID.Buzz outside the Volkswagen University in Seattle, where he walked us through the vehicles thoughtful blend of retro inspiration and EV functionality. Were here in Seattle, in front of the VW University, with Dilip. This lights up at night here in the US. Ooh, oh yeah cool. [0:23]

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Hohm in general combines the Department of Energy (DOE) 2 Building model and analytics licensed from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories to process up to two hundred user input variables, along with historical hourly weather data, aggregated averages derived over decades, and individual historical usage and pricing information to ultimately model (..)

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 7, 2023

That said, the car still needs work -- it needs a grille, exterior lighting, glass, trim, and the soft-top fabric. This Seattle-based car is up to $3,700 at auction. It's been repainted metallic red and the trunk floor has been replaced, and the lower quarter panels have been repaired.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

of total passenger light-duty vehicles in circulation in 2016. In that respect, four major US cities—Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland—are leading a partnership of more than 30 cities to mass-purchase EVs for their public fleets including police cruisers, street sweepers and trash haulers. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

The bikes, manufactured by Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes , were procured for the program through the help of Roll, a local e-bike rental company. Recipients will also receive helmets, LED lights, locks, panniers and training. The nonprofit received the grant funding from the state’s “Can Do Colorado Community Challenge.”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

We catalogued dozens of unique electric vehicle actions and found statistically significant relationships between the electric vehicle share of new light-duty vehicle sales and model availability, consumer incentives, public charging infrastructure, workplace charging, HOV lane access, and city promotion actions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

WSU will develop advanced phototrophic (light) and heterotrophic (nutrient) bioreactors and harvesting technology to enable cost-efficient, year-round growth of the algal strains developed by TGI.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The University of Washington - School of Aquatic and Fishery Scientists (Seattle, Washington) will evaluate the ability of three classes of active acoustic technologies (echo sounders, multibeam sonar, and acoustic camera) to characterize and monitor animal densities and distributions at a proposed hydrokinetic site.

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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. A translucent screen had astronomical labels and markings inscribed in phosphorus, visible only when backlit with ultraviolet light. What is an orrery?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

The results could be used by one or more regional utilities to develop a commercial compressed air energy storage demonstration project.

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