Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). The Postal Service said in February that at least 10% of the new mail trucks would be electric.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 23, 2024

We’ve waited for this moment in the EV Early Adopter community for a long time: the gap in price between electric and gas vehicles is getting oh-so close. Maybe it’s the right time to convince our friends, family, and neighbors to take the plunge into buying a used EV. There’s.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Harvard University recently purchased four Proterra battery-electric buses and electric infrastructure. Each Proterra battery-electric transit bus is 35 feet long (similar in size to the current buses), has a seating capacity of 29, and runs on a 450 kWh battery. in Allston.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Con Edison and its partners Lion Electric and Posi-Plus are developing the country’s first all-electric bucket truck capable of performing the full range of work that electric utilities require of such vehicles. As of last year, every new light-duty vehicle that Con Edison buys is a plug-in hybrid or all-electric.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Once you go electric, you almost never go back to a gas-powered car. According to a new survey from the Global EV Alliance , over 90% of EV drivers plan to buy another electric vehicle after trading in a gas car. Meanwhile, only 1% said they would return to an ICE vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For the first time, two electric vehicles with a 500-mile driving range (two variants of the Lucid Air) sit at the top of the guide’s 10 most fuel-efficient vehicles. The top 10 “fuel sippers” among 2022 models in the new guide are all-electric vehicles offering a minimum of 111 miles per gallon-equivalent fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The number of battery-electric buses ordered in Europe more than doubled in 2017 compared to 2016, reaching 1,031 vehicles, according to a new analysis by environmental NGO Transport & Environment. The are currently about 1,600 electric buses are on European roads, with another 1,600 on order (as of mid-2018).

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 24, 2024

When I read the beginning of Carolyn Fortuna’s article a few days ago about the US tax credit for EVs being at risk and why now is the time to jump in and buy an electric car, it hit me again that most people don’t realize how much more convenient. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 18, 2024

No one should be buying a gas car these days. Here’s a list of reasons you can use to convince your family, friends, and neighbors to buy an electric car next time they need a new vehicle. Electric cars are a new, soon-to-be-dominant technology. Once you drive and own an. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

There are plenty of climate and air quality reasons to buy an electric vehicle (EV), but is it cheaper to. continued] The post Electric vs. Gas Cars: Is It Cheaper to Drive an EV? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Unitrans, the University of California, Davis transit system, has purchased six Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. NFI’s New Flyer was selected by DGS as an approved supplier of electric vehicles in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Neste is introducing public high power charging (HPC) at its service stations in Finland for light- and medium-duty electric vehicles. We will continue to seek out new opportunities for supporting our customers in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

Maverick comes as a standard five-passenger, four-door pickup, with a full-hybrid powertrain and a projected EPA-estimated rating of 40 mpg city fuel economy and 500 miles of range on a single tank of gas. It features an in-house-designed and manufactured electric traction motor. Buyers who want more capability can upgrade to a 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Used Priuses, especially the Generation 2 that were made from 2004 to 2009 are becoming a bargain to buy, especially for the MPG and features you get in return. It was time to buy our first car. I was nervous as this was the first time that I was buying a car, so the experience was new to me. How did it all start?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

AlphaStruxure , a provider of Energy as a Service (EaaS) solutions, announced an agreement to deploy an integrated microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project for Montgomery County, Maryland. AlphaStruxure is a joint venture between the Carlyle Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund and Schneider Electric.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Volvo Trucks will offer a complete heavy-duty range with electric drivelines starting in Europe in 2021. Volvo Trucks is now running tests of the electric heavy-duty Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX trucks, which will be used for regional transport and urban construction operations in Europe. —Roger Alm.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

Sanctioning Russian nickel will slow the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hinder the decarbonization of Western economies, according to GlobalData. The data and analytics company notes that such actions will simply mean Western countries will be more reliant on Russian oil and gas for longer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Southern California Gas Co. The program allows qualified fleet owners the opportunity to try out the latest in heavy-duty natural gas truck technology by test-driving a 12L near-zero truck. This “try before you buy” program provides fleet owners with the opportunity to haul loads with the new truck for up to two weeks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This analysis compares the costs of usable energy when we buy gasoline and electricity for driving and natural gas for keeping warm. All-electric vehicles. One kWh of electricity corresponds to 3,412 Btu. The average residential cost of electricity in 2018 was $12.87 Natural-gas furnaces. per 100 kWh.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Based on the Sanskrit word for zero, Shoonya will create a verification and branding system for electric delivery vehicles and the packages they deliver. Even when electricity sector emissions are included, pollution from EVs are still less than gas-powered vehicles, and will only get cleaner as the grid decarbonizes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) or landfill gas. MW solar energy system, which is enough green power to meet 12% of the organization’s electricity use. GWh hours of electricity per year. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 19, 2024

But few are notable as the debacle at Hertz, a company which most gearheads know decided to buy tens of thousands of electric vehicles only to bin them at severely subvented prices. Now, the CEO is stepping down from his role.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2020

One good reason to buy an electric car is to save money on fuel, so will low gas prices slow down Tesla sales? In a recent Barron's article, two Wall Street analysts said they believe electric-car adoption is now largely decoupled from gas prices. Wall Street, it seems, says "no."

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A new total cost of ownership (TCO) study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that battery-electric and fuel-cell electric commercial trucks could be economically competitive with conventional diesel trucks by 2025 in some operating scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

Auto shoppers in America are more likely than ever before to consider buying a fully electric vehicle (EV), and new EV entries are responsible for much of the added consideration. Electric Vehicle Consideration (EVC) Study. Power 2022 U.S. Even so, more remains to be done in terms of transitioning from early to mass adoption.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

The Continental Mobility Study 2020 shows that enthusiasm for electric cars is strong in China, while reservations still need to be overcome in Germany, France, the US and Japan. The study also shows that acceptance of electric mobility has increased in all five countries surveyed in recent years. Source: Continental.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This innovation could one day deliver significantly more power than today’s leading systems to re-charge electric vehicles, making the potential of faster re-charging times possible if vehicle charging and other technology enhancements are made in parallel. Hollander Family professor of mechanical engineering, Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 23, 2025

Hybrid cars are becoming an increasingly popular choice for drivers who want the best of both worldsthe fuel efficiency of electric power combined with the reliability of a gas engine. While new hybrids often steal the spotlight, have you thought about buying a used one? Buying used doesn’t mean missing out on these perks.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Revel, a startup that unveiled its plans to launch a Tesla Model Y-based rideshare service in New York back in April, recently met a rather bizarre roadblock — one that could result in the company actually buying 50 gas cars before it could deploy its EV fleet. ” That’s right. This is a simple math issue.

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Teslarati

MAY 26, 2022

Electric Vehicle Consideration (EVC) Study was released today, and it shows that more Americans said they are “very likely” to buy an electric car for their next vehicle now more than ever. ” Living situations also attributed to whether people were considering an electric vehicle for their next car.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 21, 2024

continued] The post No Special Treatment When It Comes To ICE Ban, Ethiopia Tells Diplomats — They Can Only Buy EVs, Just Like Everybody Else! When Ethiopia implemented an immediate ban on new internal combustion engine vehicle imports earlier this. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2022

High gas prices help make the case for electric cars, but even before prices spiked, many Americans were giving EVs some level of consideration, according to a newly released Consumer Reports survey. Of those surveyed, 71% showed at least some interest in buying or leasing an EV.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Let me tell you about it. Installing the 5.2

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Electrek

JUNE 7, 2024

Buying an electric car with at least 300 miles of range is getting more affordable than ever. Several automakers, including Hyundai , Kia, and Tesla, are now offering long-range EVs (those with at least 300 miles range) that are cheaper to buy than the average gas-powered car in the US.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A trail of disastrous decisions, including hiring Tom Brady as a brand ambassador and pivoting toward all-electric vehicles , have since shown that was not to be the case. When the value of those vehicles cratered during a period where nobody was buying vehicles due to lockdowns, the company was basically doomed.

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