Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rio Tinto will purchase four 7MWh FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives ( earlier post ) from Wabtec Corporation for use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia as part of the company’s strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Modesto City Schools in California has a{purchased} 30 Blue Bird All American Type D electric school buses. They take between three and eight hours to fully recharge depending on the charging infrastructure. The district anticipates delivery of the zero-emission vehicles in the fourth quarter 2022.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

In the US, demand for new energy vehicles is set to increase as the newly passed “Inflation Reduction Act” extends tax breaks for new electric vehicle purchases—although eligibility for the tax break will be determined by the sourcing of critical materials, including lithium. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

King County Metro earlier this year became the first transit agency in North America to install a high-powered charging station at a base facility where recharging is combined with cleaning and maintenance. Short-range buses at Metro’s Bellevue Base can now fully recharge in much less time, which has made operations more efficient.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The purchase of the eco-friendly vehicle was subsidized by the NFO?iGW The “Kangaroo” program is a fund established under the aegis of the Green Investment Scheme, which provides numerous Polish cities and towns with funding to purchase electric school buses. Solaris has delivered an electric Urbino 12 school bus to the commune of Gr?boszów

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2021

The battery is recharged using energy derived from hydrogen and energy recovered during braking. Five of them will be put into service in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis district, another five will go to the Rhein-Sieg district on the left bank of the Rhine, and the remaining five will ply their trade in the city of Hürth.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

OCTA is also in the process of purchasing 10 plug-in battery electric buses, which are expected to be in operation beginning in 2021. Fuel cells do not have a need for replacement or lengthy recharging when its fuel is spent. New Flyer manufactures the Xcelsior CHARGE H2 in forty- and sixty-foot lengths.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It features a 30-mile (48 km) range without charging; it can recharge, hands free and in-route, in 10 minutes. Foothill Transit’s Line 291 travels 17 miles (27 km) between La Verne and Pomona and recharges its buses in route at the Pomona Transit Center at a drive-in docking station. Delivery is expected in early 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The BYD 6R is capable of working an entire shift without recharging. In addition to the environmental and employee health benefits provided by a zero-emission vehicle, the City anticipates significant savings in fuel purchases and vehicle maintenance. For the truck body, Curbtender Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2020

MPK) has signed a contract for the purchase of 50 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses. The design of the articulated buses will be adapted to two recharging modes: by means of a 4-pole roof-mounted pantograph placed above the first vehicle axis; or using a plug-in charger. Cracow, Poland public transport operator Miejskie Przedsi?biorstwo

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

The target will be in effect for all publicly owned and privately owned passenger and light duty vehicles of MY2030 or later that are sold, purchased, or registered in Washington state. Passenger and light-duty vehicles are on-road motor vehicles with a scale weight of up to 10,000 pounds and three or more wheels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2016

The purchase of electric vehicles is a step towards achieving our goal of 30% reduction by 2020 of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 1990. We move from words to actions by example; electrification of part of the municipal vehicle fleet is one of the pillars of the electrification of transport strategy of the City of Montreal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

To date, more than 450 commercial customers in North America, including 200 top fleets and fleet management companies, have said they’re interested in purchasing the E-Transit. No deposit or purchase commitment is required. E-Transit is an electrified version of Ford Transit, America’s best-selling commercial van.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

As a part of Lightning Systems, Lightning Energy offers a full range of purchased or leased charging stations and, optionally, full charging as a service (CaaS). Many fleets that plan to purchase vehicles don’t have the charging infrastructure in place to use them.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The batteries can be recharged conventionally using a plug-in connection. This allows it to recharge vehicles of various heights. The rest of the ordered Urbino 9 LE electrics will roll onto the streets of Polish towns and cities; six vehicles have been purchased by the town of ?yrardów,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

They will be recharged using a plug-in connector and an inverted pantograph. KUP devices (Silesian Public Service Card), enabling the purchase of a ticket in a vehicle among others, and USB chargers, which allow passengers to charge their mobile devices. A separate camera has been placed in the driver’s cabin.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Californians have purchased or leased more than 100,000 ZEVs. The 8 ZEV states are working together to develop incentives to encourage consumers and businesses to purchase ZEVs, as well as collaborating to streamline codes and regulations dealing with recharging and refueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

The Shell Recharge EV Driver Survey 2023 is one of the largest research projects into the attitudes and behaviors of European EV drivers. According to the report, two fifths (42%) of the respondents have purchased an EV within the last year and more than two-thirds (67%) within the last two years.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, they do come with their own set of limitations that you should be aware of before making the purchase. In this post, we will go over some of the things you should keep in mind before purchasing an electric vehicle. The initial purchase price is higher for EVs. Recharging your car takes longer than fueling a gas car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The batteries can be recharged conventionally using a plug-in connection. This allows it to recharge vehicles of various heights. The rest of the ordered Urbino 9 LE electrics will roll onto the streets of Polish towns and cities; six vehicles have been purchased by the town of ?yrardów,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2019

TriMet partnered with Portland General Electric (PGE) to purchase, own, and maintain six ABB chargers and the related infrastructure. New Flyer previously reported the order for five forty-foot battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE transit buses in September 2017. The program was funded in part with a $3.4-million

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

CARB funding will be allocated towards the purchase of on-road zero-emission Class 8 trucks. Regional haul trucks, for the purpose of this solicitation, have daily ranges of 200 to 400 miles on a single charge or refueling event and are designed for day-use and typically return to a home base each night.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

Additionally the vehicles will feature thermal preconditioning during battery recharge. On 29 August 2019, Hochbahn issued a Europe-wide framework tender for battery-electric buses, with plans to purchase up to 530 buses between 2021 and 2025. The switch to emission-free buses entails additional financial costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

An option is available to purchase at lease end for an amount to be determined at lease signing. The capability, available shortly after launch, will enable the Spark EV to recharge up to 80% of its capacity in approximately 20 minutes at select DC Fast Charging stations when they become available. A mileage charge of $.25/mile

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The agreement also involves the management of Hertz’s charging infrastructure by bp pulse and the customization of its Omega software to ensure Hertz’s growing fleet of electric rental cars are recharged quickly and efficiently between rentals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

The study by William Sierzchula at Delft University of Technology, published in the journal Transportation Research Part D , used fleet manager interviews and pilot project report to investigate 14 US and Dutch organizations that adopted EVs from 2010 to 2013 to determine which factors influenced their purchase decisions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

It could be very likely that these OEMs introduce swapping as an alternate recharging strategy there. IDTechEx research suggests that on average, decoupling the cost of the battery from the electric vehicle can reduce the purchase price of EVs by 20%. Two- and three-wheelers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It includes home delivery of packages using “spoke” vehicle such as EV taxis and utilizing Japan Post vehicles for efficient delivery, as well as roadside station pickup of purchases from supermarkets. The tests also include running an autonomous vehicle on a route around central Namie.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

Earlier this month, Rio Tinto announced that it purchase four 7MWh FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives from Wabtec Corporation for use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia as part of the company’s strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JULY 26, 2017

The purchase of an electric car that plugs into the power grid to recharge its battery often gets drivers thinking about the source of their energy. We haven't seen data from recent years looking at the overlap between electric-car drivers and home solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2021

With regular hybrids, that capacity is limited: while they accelerate emission-free from standstill, their low-emission diesel engine kicks in after about 400 m to recharge their battery pack. The main reason for depot charging is that De Lijn strictly purchases green electricity only. —Lydia Peeters.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Our project to purchase 130 electric articulated buses, supported by European funds, is one of the largest e-mobility investments in Europe. The electric power in those batteries will be recharged by means of depot charging stations of the plug-in type and by means of pantographs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Fisker Ocean will have a set of V2X technologies that enable owners to recharge other EVs, send power to the electrical grid, and use their vehicles as a back-up source of emergency power for their homes. The Fisker Ocean will be available to purchase at the end of 2022, and customers can reserve a vehicle for a $250 deposit today.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 21, 2025

Focus on overnight recharge In a December media presentation on the Ford Power Promise, Martin Delonis, the companys senior manager of strategy for EVs, said half of all new-car shoppers are well-suited to home EV charging. It does not apply to purchases of the small number of plug-in hybrids Ford makes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The team had expected that electric truck costs would always be higher, especially since the purchase price of the electric truck studied was higher than that of the diesel truck. The total cost of ownership (TCO) for electric and diesel trucks comprised purchase cost, maintenance cost, fuel or electricity cost, EVSE cost, and battery cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2019

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Wrightbus, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Northern Ireland, for 15 FCveloCity-HD 85-kilowatt fuel cell modules to power buses for deployment in Aberdeen, Scotland under the Joint Initiative For Hydrogen Vehicles Across Europe (“JIVE”) funding program.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Most car owners tend to purchase EVs of higher power capacity in order to alleviate range anxiety, although only 10 to 20% of the total capacity is usually needed for daily use. An electric car with a swappable battery has extra flexibility: it can be recharged at a charging station or the battery swapped out at a battery swapping station.

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