Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

DHL Express is installing solar panel units on trucks within its US pickup and delivery fleet, reducing fuel consumption in markets throughout the country. This constant care of the battery and reduction in alternator wear has a direct impact in reducing overall vehicle maintenance costs.

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Solar Installation Maintenance Fleet 293

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The first of a planned fleet of eight hydrogen fuel cell buses in London will start operating on 18 December. The buses will form the only hydrogen bus fleet in the UK and the largest currently in Europe. The buses are joining a fleet which also includes 100 hybrid buses.

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London Hydrogen Fleet Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

It, or a scaled-up version, could also provide a solution for the Asian motor vehicle fleet, in which two-stroke engine vehicles constitute a major share—and contribute significantly to air pollution. Poor vehicle maintenance, misuse of lubricants, and adulteration of gasoline exacerbate emissions from these vehicles.

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Engine Emissions Fleet Market 329

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 22, 2025

Keeping Roads & Worksites Cleaner In industries like construction and agriculture, where trucks frequently travel on muddy or unpaved surfaces, mudflaps help reduce the amount of debris tracked onto main roads. For fleet managers, this means fewer maintenance issues and a lower risk of unexpected downtime due to preventable damage.

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Vehicles Maintenance Fleet Cleaner 79

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2020

Funded through the Sacramento Emergency Clean Air & Transportation Grant Program (SECAT), the electric box truck deployment highlights the appetite amongst fleets in California to choose cleaner, sustainable transportation options.

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Sacramento Phoenix Sustainable Transportation Cleaner 269

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2018

We are making a significant investment to modernize one quarter of our fleet with new and exciting technology that will deliver a safer, more comfortable travel experience for customers and operators. The fleet enhancements are part of a larger series of strategic improvements we will roll out over the next 12-18 months.

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Fleet Engine Los Angeles Gas-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The company now operates nearly 600 of these alternatively fueled trucks, which make up about 30% of its total North American fleet. With propane being domestically produced, it’s proven to have a more stable cost per gallon, while the fueling and maintenance infrastructures are much more cost effective than other alternative fuel options.

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Water Fleet Fuel Alternative Fuels 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2019

Panasonic will partner with Tropos Motors to advance hyper-efficient electric compact utility vehicles—the second largest class of fleet vehicles. Tropos Motors’ eCUV, The ABLE, offers versatility combined with superior payload and towing capabilities with a significantly reduced environmental footprint. It is not about down-sizing.

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Motors Motor Motoring Vehicles 220

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2019

Orange EV trucks cost less in fuel, maintenance, and other diesel-related costs, and when operated in California, can generate a significant additional income stream. By operating yard trucks with a cleaner power source (i.e., Super Store Industries is the first dairy manufacturer in the U.S. to deploy a pure-electric Class 8 truck.

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Store Industry Industrial Manufacturer 239

Teslarati

JULY 17, 2024

Fleet management platform Standard Fleet and Tesla police vehicle maker UP.FIT have joined forces to create a system that streamlines EV management for all-electric police fleets. David Hodge , Founder and CEO of Standard Fleet, shared a comment about the collaboration.

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Fleet Standards Tesla Vehicles 127

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Boston Public Schools will operate 11% of its bus fleet with Blue Bird propane autogas buses, starting with the 2015-2016 school year. The school district is purchasing 86 Blue Bird Propane Vision school buses, and hopes to convert more of their diesel fleet to propane buses in the future.

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Boston Fleet Diesel Extended Range 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

UPS plans to deploy 50 plug-in electric delivery trucks that will be comparable in acquisition cost to conventional-fueled trucks without any subsidies—an industry first that would breaki a key barrier to large scale adoption of electric fleets. —Carlton Rose, President, Global Fleet Maintenance and Engineering for UPS.

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Cost Of Alternative Fuels Gasoline-Electric Los Angeles 223

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2019

Making the transition to electric school buses that don’t emit pollution provides children and their communities with cleaner air and numerous public health benefits. The Energy Commission also estimates that schools will save nearly $120,000 in fuel and maintenance costs per bus over 20 years. —Energy Commissioner Patty Monahan.

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California Diesel Energy Pollution 341

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2011

Sixty-five of those vehicles are part of Ryder’s natural gas fleet in Southern California, made available through the Ryder/San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) Natural Gas Vehicle project. The vehicles, to be delivered in July, will be serviced out of Ryder’s maintenance facility in Fontana, CA. Ryder System, Inc.,

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Gas California Tucson Alternative Fuels 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The fuel at the two stations will be available in both compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to individual and public fleet vehicles. As part of the fuel agreement, Clean Energy also will be providing fuel station maintenance services at Ryder’s natural gas fueling stations in Fontana and Orange, CA. biomethane.

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Clean Cleaning Gas Fleet 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

In mid-May, the modules will be transported to Niagara Falls and lowered onto the Maid of the Mist dry dock and maintenance facility for assembly. The Maid of the Mist’s conversion to an all-electric fleet is a bold move that shows the world we take our commitment to lowering carbon emissions seriously. — Gil C.

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Power Powered New York Battery 319

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

Metro already operates the nation’s largest compressed natural gas bus fleet, but this initiative sets Metro on a new course for transitioning to even cleaner electric buses that will be assembled right here in Los Angeles County at the BYD manufacturing plant in Lancaster. —Michael D. Electric (Battery) Heavy-duty'

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Los Angeles Purchase BYD Parts 262

Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

PairFleet is a scalable system that can serve fleets of any size, and can be set up in a few days. Build your own microgrid in a few days: Q&A with Paired Power CEO Tom McCalmont As fleet operators know (or soon find out), deploying EV charging infrastructure involves much more than buying some chargers and running some conduit.

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Grid Solar Power Powered 110

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Odyne plug-in hybrid drive system reduces fleet operating and maintenance costs, and depending on duty cycle, enables large trucks to obtain significant fuel economy improvements compared to traditional diesel engines. Although the county automotive fleet includes hybrids, these are the first hybrid trucks they are putting to work.

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Wisconsin Plug-in Clean Cleaning 199

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 8, 2024

Companies have electrified their fleets, deploying battery-powered vans, trucks and other service vehicles. People can live better lives when the roads are quieter and cleaner. Financial advantages have become significant for fleet owners, as experts say electrification can reduce maintenance costs by 50% or more.

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Pollution Fleet Tax Credit Cleaner 98

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

Staff is particularly interested in hearing stakeholder concepts for a future heavy-duty vehicle inspection and maintenance (HD I/M) program. To accelerate the adoption of the cleanest technologies, CARB adopted the Truck and Bus Regulation, which requires fleet owners to replace older engines with cleaner engine technology over time.

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California Emissions Diesel IDEA 207

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The FordPass Connect on-board modem technology is a standard feature, allowing fleet operators to improve vehicle utilization and optimize running costs, and enabling a range of features to be accessed via the FordPass mobile app to make the vehicle ownership and operating experience easier and more productive.

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PHEV Commercial Ford Production 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

DRPT is working closely with DEQ, the designated lead agency implementing Virginia’s VW Trust allocation, and the Virginia Department of General Services (DGS) on this important initiative to accelerate the transition to a cleaner transportation system for all. million for six battery-electric transit buses and fast chargers.

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Virginia Electric Electrical Grant 332

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2013

A study by a team from the University of British Columbia and Metro Vancouver suggests that optimized operational control strategies for transit bus fleets ultimately offer transit agencies a way to maximize the benefits of their capital investments in new, cleaner technologies. minimizing climate impacts).

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Climate Pollution Fleet Emissions 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

The vehicle is part of a wider program to evaluate the use of ULEMCo’s cleaner vehicles for the Ocado fleet. Maintenance and service package. UK-based ULEMCo ( earlier post ) has delivered the first hydrogen dual-fuel van to online supermarket Ocado. Dual Fuel switch and unique H2ICED engine control unit. 12-month free warranty.

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Hydrogen Fuel Conversion Mercedes 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2016

The City of Santa Monica, California has awarded Clean Energy a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract to fuel its Big Blue Bus (BBB) fleet of vehicles. NO x engine will power BBB’s entire fleet. BBB began using Redeem by Clean Energy in January 2015. Earlier post.). Near Zero 0.02

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Clean Cleaning Renewable Engine 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Our urban areas and highways will have cleaner fuel, which also creates jobs and generates income to the poor through family farming. Local agencies now have 12 months to present Vehicle Pollution Control Plans targeting specific fleet groups, defining frequency and priority areas for inspection.

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Brazil 2010 Emissions Vehicles 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Clean Energy announced last week that trucking fleets that operate in the ports are taking delivery of additional clean heavy-duty trucks. signed a 5-year RNG supply contract for an approximate 3 million gallons of Redeem to reduce fleet emissions in accordance with the City’s sustainability goals. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Renewable Gas Kansas City Los Angeles 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

They include: Clean Cars 4 All provides up to $9,500 to low-income drivers who scrap their older vehicles and want to purchase something that runs cleaner. Currently, manufacturers factor in all ICEVs, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and ZEVs when calculating compliance with the LEV fleet average regulation.

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PHEV Emissions California Cleaner 195

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Characteristics of the Tianjin fleet found by the team’s vehicle activity study included: The total distance traveled by all vehicles in Tianjin was about 38 million kilometers (23.6 Accelerating fleet turnover rate (especially taxis and buses) will likely help improving air quality in most cities. million miles) per day.

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Emissions China Fleet Taxi 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Maintenance costs of all-electric buses are expected to decline versus hybrid-diesels, primarily because they have fewer moving parts. Metro also is calling on the industry to develop 60-foot long buses, better able to replace the articulated buses that make up 55 percent of its fleet.

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Purchase 2020 Battery Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

as a result of electricity displacing gasoline and diesel to fuel a substantial portion of the vehicle fleet. EPRI Prism analysis assumptions include 100 million PEVs in the fleet by 2030; and the fraction of non-road transportation applications (e.g., forklifts) represents three times the current share by 2030.

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EPRI Grid Cost Of Gasoline-Electric 239

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The application of this technology will result in improved emissions, less fuel use, longer brake life, better low-end torque, and lower maintenance and operational costs. Kiessling Transit purchased a pilot vehicle equipped with the hybrid system through Lightning Hybrids’ Boston-based dealer, National Fleet Hybrids, in 2013.

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Hybrid Massachusetts Indianapolis Fleet 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2016

AZRA-Partenaire-Renault-Partner has teamed up with Uni-Select to ensure the management and maintenance of the vehicle fleet. AZRA’s mission is to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by improving access to cleaner energy and accelerating the transition of vehicles operating on fossil fuels to electric vehicles.

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Canada Transportation Charging Cleaner 150

Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Public and private fleet owners are under increasing environmental and government pressure to reduce carbon emissions by switching to electric vehicles (EVs). EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. All these costs must be factored into achieving TCO targets.

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Fleet Grid Charging Energy 96

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

Kiessling Transit has received a grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that pays for 80% of the cost of the Lightning Hybrids’ systems to be installed on Kiessling Transit’s Ford E-450 passenger buses, making them cleaner, more fuel efficient and improving braking efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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Hybrid Massachusetts Boston Fleet 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018. FY2017 Low-No projects.

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Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet 191