Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

UPS will supply its fleet in Memphis, Tenn., with an estimated 15 million diesel gallon gas equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG)—biomethane—as part of a multi-year agreement with Memphis Light, Gas and Water and Atmos Energy Marketing, LLC. The RNG will fuel more than 140 heavy duty trucks in Memphis and Jackson, part of UPS’s natural gas fleet, which includes more than 3,800 medium and heavy duty vehicles worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2014

terminal to the Valero Memphis Refinery, and the ability to access Valero Energy Partner’s Collierville pipeline. Construction of the pipeline will enhance the refinery’s long-term ability to produce gasoline, diesel and jet fuel for the greater Memphis and eastern Arkansas area. The Valero Memphis Refinery originally was constructed in 1941 with numerous expansions to its present rated capacity of 195,000 barrels per day (BPD) of light, low-sulfur crude oil.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

MARCH 22, 2009

Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All, The run from Little Rock, AR to Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, 21 March 09, was one of leisure on Hwy 70, allowing one to occasionally view Interstate 40 off to the left and North with its hectic traffic clipping along and playing dodge-truck! for 127; and 56.7MGP for 157 miles, until arriving at Ms Trisha Nelson, the Memphis Mensa LocSec (Local Secretary) who was hosting the "Spirit" with a plug and EVJerry with a lodging.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

MARCH 22, 2009

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In connection with Clean Air Month, TDEC will host a recognition ceremony and sustainable transportation forum on 7 May 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Crossing through 16 states, plus the District of Columbia, in Super Cruise-equipped Cadillac CT6 vehicles, the drive program will make stops in major cities across the US including: Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee; Dallas, Texas; Santa Fe, New Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona. Cadillac embarked on its first official hands-free drive on freeways from one side of the country to the other, using Super Cruise technology. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Mitsubishi Chemical manufactures electrolyte (“Sol-Rite”) at the Yokkaichi Plant located in Mie Prefecture, Japan; a plant located in Stockton-on-Tees, the UK; a plant located in Memphis, TN; and a plant located in Changshu, Jiangsu, China. Ube Industries, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation have agreed to a tie-up for their electrolyte businesses in China under a 50-50 joint venture to supply highly competitive electrolyte to the market.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

FedEx Express is bringing new all-electric delivery vehicles to New York City, Chicago and Memphis, and diversifying the existing Los Angeles fleet. In Memphis, FedEx Express is retrofitting existing vehicles to make them all-electrics, saving resources through using existing vehicle bodies. FedEx Express has also been piloting five composite vehicles from Utilimaster in Detroit, Memphis, Jackson, Tenn., FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

FedEx plans to test the bot this summer in select markets, including Memphis, Tenn., FedEx Corp. unveiled the FedEx SameDay Bot—an autonomous delivery device designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries to their customers. With the bot, retailers will be able to accept orders from nearby customers and deliver them by bot directly to customers’ homes or businesses the same day.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Technip has been awarded two lump sum contracts by Valero Refining Company and Diamond Shamrock Refining Company (both part of the Valero group) for two hydrogen plants at their refineries in Memphis, Tennessee and McKee, Texas. The two 30-million standard cubic feet per day hydrogen plants will produce high purity hydrogen and export steam.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

MARCH 22, 2009

Tomorrow would be the run to Memphis on another Blue Highway -- Hwy 70, which lays within miles and parallels the busy, truck-laden and hi-speed Interstate 40 some 140 miles to Memphis. Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - The "Spirit" started cruising on a sunny Friday afternoon, 20 March 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., The company owns and operates a wood cellulose plant in Perry in addition to cotton cellulose manufacturing operations in Memphis and Americana, Brazil. Buckeye Technologies Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2013

New UPS-built fueling stations in Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., UPS plans to purchase approximately 700 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks and to build four refueling stations by the end of 2014. Once completed, the LNG private fleet will be one of the most extensive in the US. An initial investment of more than $18 million to build fueling stations will be supported by the purchase of the 700 LNG tractors and continued expansion of the natural gas fleet in the US.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

MARCH 23, 2009

Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - From Home Sweet LOCSEC Home of Memphis Mensan, Trisha Nelson, with a charged up "Spirit" and a well rested EVJerr, the EVenture to Nashville began at a leisure pace so as to enjoy the fast-turning-green forest of the Tennessee countryside.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

FedEx Express ($3 million DOE investment): Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $7 million to four projects that will help bring cost-effective, advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies online faster for both mobile and stationary applications. Private industry and DOE’s national laboratories have already helped to reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. Roger Duncan gives Campaign Update The Plug-In Partners National Campaign has now been underway for six months. We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today.

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JULY 17, 2020

Advancing Climate and Innovation Goals of Memphis and Shelby County: Electrification of key fleet vehicles to capture cost savings and climate benefits. US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

of Memphis, Tenn., American Chemical Society (ACS) President Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., and Jim Jones, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the winners of the 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Clean Energy began providing fueling solutions at the Pilot Flying J station in West Memphis, Arkansas, furthering its partnership with the largest operator of travel centers and travel plazas in North America. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has secured a contract to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Hawaii Gas, the State of Hawaii’s only franchised gas utility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2013

million 48C Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit for its new facility in Memphis, Tenn., The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $150 million in clean energy tax credits to 12 businesses to build US capabilities in clean energy manufacturing; $98 million of that goes to five automakers and suppliers towards investments in domestic manufacturing equipment. The awards are made through the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit program (48C Program).

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 06, 2009 – The "Spirit of DC's" on the road again on its Sun Belt Grand Finale from San Francisco to Washington, DC. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle All Around America (PHEV3A) tour with "EVJerry" Asher driving started last year on Earth Day, in front of the Nation’s Capitol. The plug-in hybrid vehicle the “Spirit of DC" was designed to run on electricity alone for about 10 miles before reverting back to acting like an ordinary hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

The researchers will use the DOE Gulfstream-1 (G-1) aircraft for the campaign and plan to log 120 hours of flight time, focusing on wildfires in the vicinity of Pasco, Washington, and agricultural fires near Memphis, Tennessee. Scientists from the US.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

The ten light rail systems with the highest rates of growth were located in the following cities: Memphis, TN (45.7%); Salt Lake City, UT (34.1%); Seattle, WA – King County DOT (19.4%); Boston, MA (12.6%); Cleveland, OH (10.7%); Houston, TX (10.3%); Seattle, WA – Sound Transit (10.3%); Los Angeles, CA (9.9%); Sacramento, CA (8.5%); and St. Public transportation ridership rose 5% to nearly 2.7

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Kansas City, New Orleans, Memphis,) with Green Train and the "Spirit" and the "Xtreme BugE" some time after the 5th EPA National Sustainable Design Expo on the Capitol Mall on Earth Day weekend in April 2009. Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, EVnthusiasts, One & All - Below is an update of things and EVents happening, or anticpated to happen. Please take a moment to read.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

The meeting was held in June at Vanderbilt University and was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research (VECTOR), Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (VIEE) and the University of Memphis’ Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

The Crescent Corridor is a 2,500-mile (4,023-km) rail network supporting the supply chain from Memphis and New Orleans to New Jersey. The battery-electric NS-999, “under the long hood”. Source: NS. Click to enlarge. In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

Electric Power Research Institute (Drexel University, University of Memphis, Evapco, WorleyParsons, and Maulbetsch Consulting). The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.

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