83 Philadelphia Joins Coalition
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FEBRUARY 7, 2006
C ity of P hiladelphia Council of the City of Philadelphia (Resolution No.
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Maxwell supplying ultracaps to ABB for hybrid version of Philadelphia rail energy recuperation system
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APRIL 9, 2014
is supplying ultracapacitors to ABB for its recent contract win to upgrade Philadelphia area rail lines. ABB will install a hybrid version of its high-efficiency ENVILINE wayside energy recovery and storage system for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s (SEPTA) light rail system serving the greater Philadelphia area. Maxwell Technologies, Inc.
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The Carlyle Group and Sunoco to form Philadelphia refinery joint venture
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JULY 2, 2012
have agreed to form Philadelphia Energy Solutions, a joint venture that will enable the historic Philadelphia refinery to continue operating. Under the terms of the agreement, Sunoco will contribute its Philadelphia refinery assets to the joint venture in exchange for a non-operating minority interest. Phil Rinaldi, who has successfully led other refining and chemical business turnarounds, will serve as the CEO of Philadelphia Energy Solutions.
Republic deploys 67 CNG solid waste and recycling trucks in southern NJ and Philadelphia area
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OCTOBER 30, 2013
has brought 67 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) solid waste and recycling trucks to serve customers throughout southern New Jersey and in Philadelphia. Continuing its string of local deployments ( earlier post ) Republic Services, Inc. The new CNG fleet will replace older diesel-powered trucks. One of the more lasting contributions we can make in our community is to protect the environment by reducing ozone-forming emissions wherever possible.
Philadelphia transit authority Board approves $412M purchase of 525 new hybrid buses
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MAY 27, 2016
The Board of SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority) today approved the purchase of 525 40-foot, low-floor diesel-electric hybrid buses via a $411.8-million, five-year contract with New Flyer of America. SEPTA also has an option to purchase up to 25 additional buses. The new vehicles will allow SEPTA to continue the regular retirement and replacement of the oldest vehicles in its fleet with new, more energy-efficient hybrids.
1912 electric truck: Take that Tesla Semi!
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MAY 6, 2018
Commercial Truck company of Philadelphia built 5-ton electric trucks as far back as 1912. This month, it seems like electric trucks are coming coming off the drawing boards and onto the roads, right and left. But Nikola, with its hydrogen trucks, and Tesla with its all-electric models, are hardly the first truck makers to turn to electricity. Trucks
Harley-Davidson Livewire Electric Motorcycle Concept: Test Ride
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JULY 24, 2014
I attended a test ride near Philadelphia The Harley-Davidson Project Livewire electric motorcycle concept has been blazing across the country, with demonstration rides offered to owners and fans on no fewer than 40 concept bikes. Now we''ve ridden it, and we can weigh in: The Livewire motorcycle looks great, accelerates hard, and rides smoothly.
ECOtality Offering Free Electric Car Charging Stations: Is Your City Included?
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 1, 2012
That's the aim of ECOtality, as it offers Blink chargers at an increasingly wide range of sites, with Philadelphia, Chicago and Atlanta the latest cities joining the list. Wherever you charge your electric car, it's nice to have access to the latest equipment and a good network of charging sites. Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt-owning residents and
Is Your City Ready For Electric Vehicles?
All Cars Electric
APRIL 15, 2011
A previous Pike research report highlighted 6 cities expected to be early EV adopters: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and Ford has identified the 25 most electric vehicle (EV) ready cities in the U.S., based on the company’s latest research. The 25 cities are dotted all over the country from Hartford to Honolulu.
Mayor Menino Adds Boston
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FEBRUARY 10, 2006
Arlington, TX Austin, TX Baltimore, MD Boston, MA Boulder, CO Corpus Christi, TX Dallas, TX Denver, CO Fort Worth, TX Irvine, CA Los Angeles, CA Madison, WI Philadelphia, PA Salt Lake City, UT Seattle, WA Wenatchee, WA Become a Partner today. Boston joins in the Plug-In Campaign.
Fall Preview and Theatrical Launch
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AUGUST 18, 2011
Philadelphia. This summer has been a wild ride of festivals, terrific opening press and special event screenings across the country.
Traction Action
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NOVEMBER 30, 2006
T his week's meeting of the Electric Drive Transportation Association in Washington was accompanied by some significant announcements.
Plug In Auto Nation
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OCTOBER 25, 2006
Mike Jackson H ere's another important milestone for the Campaign. The Nation's largest retail car dealer sees the importance of the PHEV and its CEO is calling on his manufacturers to get with the program. Here's the story from Auto Service World AutoNation Joins Hybrid Cause Auto Service World Oct.
SEPTA awards New Flyer a contract for up to 550 diesel hybrid buses; 90 in first order
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JUNE 16, 2016
SEPTA currently serves more than 168 million annual riders with a fleet of 1,387 vehicles in fixed route service in the Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has awarded New Flyer a contract for up to 550 heavy-duty 40-foot Xcelsior diesel electric hybrid buses. Earlier post.).
Preliminary survey results show 27% believe they will be using autonomous car by 2020, 49% a single mobility app
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OCTOBER 10, 2016
A final sample size of n=2,320 was achieved across 23 cities between the 6-22 September 2016: London (109); Melbourne (100); Sydney (100); Singapore City (101); Austin (100); Los Angeles (100); New York (100); Philadelphia (100); Portland (100); San Francisco (100); Washington DC (100); Kuala Lumpur (100); Amsterdam (100); Milan (100); Paris (104); Madrid (100); Brussels (101); Montréal (100); Toronto (104); México City (100); Santiago (101); Lima (100) and Frankfurt (100).
Proterra racks up 33 more orders for electric buses through FTA Low-No awards
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APRIL 21, 2016
million people in five counties in and around Philadelphia, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) will receive $2,585,075 from FTA and use the funds to purchase 25 Proterra Catalyst buses and five overhead chargers. Proterra zero-emission buses will be deployed on Routes 29 and 79 in South Philadelphia.
Traveling Finnish sauna touring US to use Neste renewable diesel on the West Coast
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JANUARY 26, 2017
Follow the Traveling Sauna on social media (@travelingsauna, @nestecorp, @NesteUS), and track its journey through Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City, and 17 other US locations. Throughout 2017, a fully-functional Finnish sauna on wheels will travel 12,000 miles across the US. Neste’s low-carbon drop-in renewable diesel called Neste MY Renewable Diesel will be used to fuel the truck carrying the sauna while traveling along the UUS West Coast.
Electric Cars: Yes We Will
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 19, 2009
Case in point: we opened the paper on our arrival to see a full 1/4 page photo of this message greeting Obama from the sides of the train tracks on his big journey from Philadelphia to DC: Electric Cars: Yes We Can ! " 400,000 at the Lincoln Memorial concert. Dateline: Washington, DC. The buzz is everywhere and completely electric in Washington DC this week. And some of that energy is headed directly to plug-in cars.
Nestlé Waters North America adds 155 new medium-duty propane autogas trucks to delivery fleet
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MARCH 8, 2016
Deployments in 2016 will include New York City, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Nestlé Waters North America is adding more than 150 medium-duty beverage delivery trucks fueled by propane autogas. Over the vehicles’ lifetime, the 155 Ford F-650 trucks will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 24.6 million pounds. These units will be deployed beginning in April.
Summer Update
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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.
PECO Expanding Fleet with NGVs & PHEVs
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
The NGVs will be used by PECO’s energy technicians in the Philadelphia suburbs. The vehicles cost more to buy when modified for CNG use, but the fuel costs significantly less than diesel or gasoline at 25% less per equivalent gallon, said Bill Flemming, PECO’s fleet manager and chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Coalition. With vehicles on the road 24/7, PECO’s fleet logs about 11 million miles of travel every year serving customers in the Greater Philadelphia region.
Univ. of Delaware and state partner on EV charging station project to support longer electric trips
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FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The project also helps fill a regional gap for recharging capabilities between Baltimore and Philadelphia, urban areas where charging stations are more common. In the Mid-Atlantic region electric chargers are clustered within metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia and Baltimore, but these are not well-located for en-route charging and most are incapable of fast charging.
EIA: major utilities continue to increase spending on US electric distribution systems
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JULY 23, 2018
Spending on electricity distribution systems by major US electric utilities—representing about 70% of total US electric load—has risen 54% over the past two decades, from $31 billion to $51 billion annually, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
INRIX powers first on-street parking service in a production connected car
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JULY 6, 2017
Initially, the service is available in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart), and in the US (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.). INRIX, Inc. announced the availability of its On-Street Parking service in the new BMW 5 Series Sedan. The real-time on-street parking service uses historical and up-to-the-minute parking data to predict the availability of parking spaces.
Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation
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OCTOBER 30, 2017
The researchers also found that policies with the biggest local impact vary from city to city, with faster-growing Sun Belt cities such as Houston and Phoenix having the potential to enact a bigger reduction in residential emissions than older cities such as Boston or Philadelphia, which see less change in their housing stock. The 11 cities analyzed in the study are Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Seattle.
BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in electric bus company Proterra; part of $55M round
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JUNE 13, 2017
Currently, the company has sold more than 400 vehicles to cities and communities in the US, including Seattle, Dallas, Nashville, San Jose, Philadelphia and Reno. Electric bus manufacturer Proterra has closed a $55-million Series 6 round, on the heels of an oversubscribed $140-million Series 5 in January.
APTA reports record public transportation usage in US in 2013; growth outpacing population and VMT growth
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MARCH 10, 2014
The following five commuter rail systems saw double digit increases in 2013: Austin, TX (37.3%); Harrisburg-Philadelphia, PA (33.9%); Anchorage, AK (30.0%); Lewisville, TX (23.0%); Stockton, CA (19.9%); Minneapolis, MN (12.5%); and Portland, OR (10.3%).
BP selects Tesla batteries for pilot storage project at US wind farm
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APRIL 11, 2018
The company’s US wind farms have a gross generating capacity of 2,259 MW—enough electricity to power all the homes in a city the size of Philadelphia. BP Wind Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Rolling Thunder I Power Partners LLC, has signed a purchase agreement to install a high-storage battery at its Titan 1 Wind Farm in South Dakota.
SG Preston and IHI E&C partner on portfolio of renewable diesel and jet plants; 5 initial sites, 600M gallons total capacity
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OCTOBER 22, 2015
SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada. Philadelphia, PA-based S.G.
Electrify America to install 2,800 charging stations at workplaces and multi-unit dwellings across US
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DECEMBER 18, 2017
Workplace and multi-unit dwelling charging stations will be installed in six California metropolitan areas—Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose—as well as in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, Raleigh, Seattle and Washington, DC.
International Battery to provide Li-ion system to Sunverge for Net-Zero Energy Home Project
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MARCH 30, 2011
This fully integrated distributed energy system will provide a turnkey solar solution to support a Net-Zero Home Energy demonstration at the Philadelphia Navy Yard’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub. Sunverge Energy has selected International Battery to provide a Li-ion energy storage systems (ESS) as the energy storage component of Sunverge’s Solar Integration System (SIS).
Most Hybrid Cities In America
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MARCH 19, 2010
Philadelphia. Some of the least green cities were Phoenix, Philadelphia, and San Antonio. I made my first trip to San Francisco this week and although I expected to see a higher percentage of hybrid cars compared to most Midwest cities, I was really surprised.
Karma using independent dealers and company centers for launch or Revero plug-in hybrid
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AUGUST 8, 2016
Karma of The Main Line (greater Philadelphia). Karma Automotive’s planned distribution strategy will use both independent dealers and also company owned brand-experience centers to sell and service the new high-end Revero plug-in hybrid. The company said it has been curating best-in-class dealers in key markets in preparation for the Revero going on sale later this year.
Zipcar to expand Zipvan cargo van service across North America
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AUGUST 21, 2012
Zipcar is launching the Zipvan service in Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon today, and will roll out the service to its remaining metro markets in North America over the next 12 months. Car-sharing network Zipcar, Inc. plans to expand the company’s Zipvan cargo van service across North America.
Sunoco Idles Eagle Point Refinery; Will Evaluate Feasibility of Using it to Produce Alternative Fuels in the Future
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OCTOBER 9, 2009
Sunoco will shift current Eagle Point production to its two nearby refineries in Marcus Hook and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which will now operate at higher capacity utilization. While Marcus Hook and Philadelphia serve as distribution hubs that feed refined products directly into Sunoco’s branded retail network, Eagle Point is not as directly linked. Sunoco, Inc.
NSF awarding $81M to 16 sites for new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
New NNCI awards: Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Hub for Research, Education and Innovation, University of Pennsylvania with partner Community College of Philadelphia, principal investigator (PI): Mark Allen. To advance research in nanoscale science, engineering and technology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide a total of $81 million over five years to support 16 sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).
Joule achieves ASTM compliance for sustainable diesel, jet fuel; direct CO2-to-fuels
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MAY 15, 2014
At the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Philadelphia, Joule announced that its Sunflow-D and Sunflow-J products meet the standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) for diesel and jet fuel, respectively. Joule products achieve all accepted standards for fuel performance, and they may also improve quality of the finished fuel blends, as demonstrated by the test results.
Axion Power raising up to $10M through direct common stock offering
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FEBRUARY 1, 2012
Philadelphia Brokerage Corporation and Emerging Growth Equities, Ltd served as co-placement agents for the offering. Axion Power International, Inc., the developer of advanced leadcarbon PbC batteries and energy storage systems, has entered into definitive agreements to sell an aggregate of not more than 28,571,429 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share , at a price per share of $0.35
Solar Grid Storage selects AllCell as preferred Li-ion battery system supplier
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OCTOBER 22, 2013
Solar Grid Storage has several projects in the 14-state PJM service area including the recently announced Grid Star project at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and the Konterra commercial microgrid in Laurel, Maryland. Solar Grid Storage selected AllCell Technologies as a preferred supplier of large lithium-ion battery systems for their PowerFactor solar + storage systems.
Panda Power Funds jointly to develop 1,000 MW coal to natural gas conversion project; Marcellus Shale gas
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FEBRUARY 19, 2015
The plant is expected to supply large power markets, including Philadelphia and New York City, when it enters commercial operations in the second half of 2017. Panda Power Funds has entered into a joint venture with Sunbury Generation LP to develop, finance, construct and operate a 1,000 megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power project near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Awards Axion Power $800,000 to Demonstrate PbC Batteries in Hybrids, PHEVs and EVs
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FEBRUARY 2, 2009
321,680 to convert ground support equipment fleet at Philadelphia International Airport to run on electricity rather than fossil fuels. City of Philadelphia. 296,650 for rechargers for the electric ground support fleet at Philadelphia International Airport, in coordination with the US Airways project. Philadelphia Academies, Inc. City of Philadelphia, Office of Fleet Management. City of Philadelphia, Office of Fleet Management.
BMW, Volkswagen and ChargePoint complete EV express charging corridors on the East and West Coasts
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Drivers can access the DC Fast chargers along the most heavily populated and highly-trafficked regions primarily along Interstate 95 on the East Coast, enabling EV travel from Boston, through the New York City and Philadelphia areas to Washington, D.C.,
Rent A Hybrid. Links To Green Rentals.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Spring break and summer vacations are closer than you think, and many families making travel plans now are looking for ways to make their trips a little easier on the environment.
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