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Tesla landed what could be $5 million in sales from the Baltimore City government, as the city has decided to purchase EVs made by the industry-leading automaker for employee use. Baltimore Fishbowl first reported on the approval. Baltimore has made several steps to increase its use of EVs as a whole.
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Baltimore City Public Schools just debuted 25 electric school buses – Maryland’s second-largest electric school bus fleet, behind Montgomery County Public Schools.
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. Louis, among other cities.
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The new medium-duty delivery trucks, added to the company’s existing autogas fleet of 30 Ford trucks of the same model, will also help the company save on maintenance and fuel costs. Deployments in 2016 will include New York City, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. million pounds.
The greening of the General Motors Baltimore Operations complex included the addition of 580 kilowatts of solar to the roof of its e-Motor building. Baltimore joins 70 achievers in GM, which is the global leader of the challenge. Together with a 1.23-megawatt
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Seattle and Houston are taking delivery of HybriDrive-powered buses built by Daimler as will Baltimore City, Md., has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive to power its new fleet of Gillig Low Floor hybrid buses. and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011. Additionally, Red Rose Transit Authority of Lancaster, Pa.,
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The initial amount of cells will be used to build a test fleet of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles with range extender as well as a certain number of Electric Vehicles for an Asian vehicle manufacturer. A member of the FN Group previously invested $2 million in equity of LTC in October, 2010, as previously reported by LTC.
This technology could help Wal-Mart increase its fleet efficiency by up to 25%. The five Peterbilt Model 386 heavy duty diesel-electric hybrids are being tested in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Southern California and the Baltimore/Washington DC region. This technology could help Wal-Mart increase its fleet efficiency by up to two percent.
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EV Charging Infrastrucre Conference Previous editions of the forum have included presentations from PG&E, Southern California Edison, Wood Mackenzie, Amazon, Rivian, ComEd, Argonne National Lab, Xcel Energy, Volta Charging, IREC, Chargepoint, Electrify America, Baltimore Gas & Electric, Salt River Project, The Brattle Group and many others.
"The Plug-In Partners campaign , launched in January 2006 by the City of Austin and Austin Energy, has attracted nearly 60 cities and counties, including Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore and Phoenix , as well as dozens of environmental, national security organizations, business and utility partners.
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The Tom Thumb Steam Train, part of the B&O Railroad in Baltimore, Maryland, is the first character and dates back to 1830. Review by Steve Schaefer The post Book Review: Public Transportation: A Children’s Book by Paul Comfort first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. The book engages children from page one with a bus to color.
’ After launching a pilot program this past Summer in a dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, Rivian and Amazon have expanded their fleet of EDVs to over 1,000 units present in more than 100 cities across the United States.
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Hyundai invited automotive journalists to Baltimore, Maryland, to drive the gasoline versions, which are in dealers now. Clean Fleet Report will write a much more detailed Road Test review after getting in the Kona for more than a couple hours. The post Flash Drive: 2024 Hyundai Kona first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.
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We have driven our fleet of over 200 electric vehicles almost 12 million miles and have had no major problems with the batteries,” notes Edward Kjaer, Manager of Southern California Edison’s Electric Transportation Department. EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January
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The pilot will integrate electric vehicle technology and charging infrastructure into the federal fleet and federal buildings to the best ways to use the technology in the federal fleet. GSA will work with agencies to install charging infrastructure in federal buildings in the five pilot cities. Autoflex, Inc.
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