Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2023

Range’s electric-powered trailers hook up to any diesel-powered truck today, providing fleet owners 30-40% better fuel efficiency as they aim to meet new regulations and bring down their cost-per-mile. Range’s platform also works as a mobile power unit.

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California Range Cleaner Diesel 276

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

We now look forward to starting production later this year and delivering vehicles to our customers, in order to help to make cleaner air for cities all over the world. The rapid growth of e-commerce has led to an increase in demand for light commercial transport in cities, increasing both congestion and pollution.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

million in funding for state programs that will improve public health by helping to clean up California’s fleet of cars, trucks and buses. This program provides vouchers of up to $55,000 to help California fleets purchase cleaner, advanced technology trucks and buses.

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Cleaner California Tax Credit Diesel 246

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responding to petitions from the California Air Resources Board, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, and the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association to address harmful nitrogen oxide (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM) emissions from locomotives.

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EPA Pollution Emissions Standards 305

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Emissions from heavy-duty vehicles are primarily under the regulatory jurisdiction of state and federal government, and voluntary incentive programs are critical to transitioning fleets to the next generation of cleaner technologies and achieving reductions needed to meet air quality standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Heavy-duty trucks can emit drastically higher levels of pollution when not equipped with required emissions controls. Transport companies must comply with California’s rule to improve air quality and protect adjacent schools and communities from breathing these toxic pollutants.

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Los Angeles Pollution EPA Emissions 247

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As a direct result of the state’s Clean Cars 4 All program, more than 10,000 Californians have now scrapped old, dirty cars and replaced them with cleaner alternatives such as new and used zero-emission, plug-in hybrid, or hybrid cars. Drive Clean in the San Joaquin, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District: 2,894 participants.

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Clean Cleaning Sacramento Pollution 320

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2022

This funding comes from DOT’s Buses and Bus Facilities Program and Low or No Emission Vehicle (Low-No) Program, helping transit agencies purchase and lease new, cleaner vehicles and renovate and construct the infrastructure needed for zero-emission transit vehicles. FAST Forward with Fairfield: The FAST Bus Fleet Electrification Project.

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California Emissions Los Angeles Fresno 284

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Belgian private bus operator Hansea already has 90 electric city buses in its fleet – and last week, the company announced plans to add 181 more electric buses by the end of 2025. Our goal is to fully electrify our entire bus fleet by 2035. We have relied on MAN to convert our fleet right from the start.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

NITI Aayog, the Government of India’s official think tank, with support from RMI and RMI India, has launched a campaign to transform last-mile deliveries and eliminate pollution through consumer engagement. We will promote awareness about health, environmental and economic benefits of electric vehicles through the Shoonya campaign.

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Miles India Pollution Electrical 344

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The funds will be combined with $379,516 in matching funds from CARB, and $1,280,000 in cost-shared funds from participating fleets.

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Grant Los Angeles Diesel California 300

Teslarati

MAY 29, 2023

If anything, they emphasize the idea that it is possible to adopt a cleaner, quieter alternative to conventional trucking solutions featuring large, noisy, Class 8 diesel-powered semitrailers today. The post Tesla Semi real-world sightings show that a cleaner, quieter future is possible for the trucking sector appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We optimize fleet composition (mix of conventional vehicles (CVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and battery electric vehicles (BEVs)) and operations to satisfy demand at minimum cost and compare findings across a wide range of present-day and future scenarios for three cities. Air pollution is a classic case where free markets fail.

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Tax Emissions Los Angeles Companies 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

Company and fleet reporting: Large employers including retailers, manufacturers, brokers and others would be required to report information about shipments and shuttle services. Fleet owners, with 50 or more trucks, would be required to report about their existing fleet operations.

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Cleaning Clean Los Angeles Pollution 321

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

While initially small in scope, this represents an important step in Con Edison’s journey toward fleet electrification. We are all in on electric vehicles, and that means transitioning our own fleet while making it easier for our customers to charge up their own vehicles. —Con Edison CEO Tim Cawley.

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All-Electric New York City New York Fleet 415

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2018

Using this type of measurement, the Port also posted its best year ever, lowering the average amount of emissions the port generates to move each container of cargo for all eight pollutants tracked by the Port’s emissions inventory, including greenhouse gases (GHG), which were down 30% per container on average since 2005. —Chris Cannon.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The green symbol and dashed arrow illustrate the large reductions in tailpipe VOC emission factors as precatalyst on-road gasoline vehicles were replaced by present-day vehicle fleets. Even so, lotions, paints and other products contribute about as much to air pollution as does the transportation sector. McDonald et al.

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Pollution Transportation Production Los Angeles 264

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

King County Metro, the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle, will soon begin testing long-range battery-powered buses that can travel more than 140 miles on a single charge, the latest milestone toward a zero-emission fleet. —Metro General Manager Rob Gannon.

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Miles Seattle North America Charging 372

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Post Office will be converting a sizeable portion of its fleet of electric vans. It will take time, investment and forward-thinking politicians and trucking companies, but every diesel burning truck that can be removed from the roadways will aid in cleaner air. tons of pollutant emission reductions and displacing more than 2.75

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

In May, the Oakland Unified school district announced the conversion of its entire school bus fleet to EVs. And none too soon—the American Lung Association recently reported that the Bay Area’s levels of particle pollution are the fifth-worst of any metro area in the US.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

A new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that air pollution at US ports can be reduced significantly at all port types and sizes through a variety of strategies and cleaner technologies. In 2030, adding plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to these fleets could yield even more NO x and PM 2.5

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Pollution EPA Cleaner Emissions 150

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 29, 2021

Zero Emission Fleets to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Pollution and Accelerate New York State’s Transition to Cleaner Mobility.

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New York Purchase Cleaner Electric Vehicles 132

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The test fleet comprised 59 on-road gasoline vehicles, spanning a wide range of model years and emission control technologies/standards. This feedback illustrates the complex coupling between different pollutants, which must be accounted for in models used to develop control strategies. —Allen Robinson. Presto, Timothy D.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The electrification of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and fleet vehicles, is gaining significant momentum globally. According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

But until they do, the number of casualties in crashes is likely to increase as heavy electric vehicles join lighter existing fleets. Heavier vehicles also generate more particulate pollution from tyre wear. A focus on driving lighter, safer, cleaner and less can ensure a better future for everyone. —Shaffer et al.

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F-150 Climate Petrol Gas-Electric 459

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

First, we should state the obvious: as hard as it is to imagine a nonprofit with $250 million to spend on a fleet of 500 electric semi trucks – it’s even harder to imagine one that would need that many trucks. This $250 million commitment will reduce pollution, address the climate crisis, and improve public health.” And so it is.

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Buy Los Angeles Kenworth Climate 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Under this competition, EPA anticipates awarding between 40 and 70 assistance agreements. Applicants may apply until 16 March 2021. Background.

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EPA Diesel Puerto Rico Emissions 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Mayor Hidalgo described her anti-pollution plan, which will be considered by the Conseil de Paris (the assembly governing the city) on 9 February, to the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche (leJDD) on 6 December. European regulations reduced pollutant emissions from diesel vehicles to those of gasoline vehicles. London, Berlin.)

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Diesel Fleet Pollution Europe 247

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

ACC II establishes the next set of LEV criteria and ZEV requirements to reduce emissions of criteria air pollutants (including precursors) and GHGs from light- and medium-duty vehicles in California further. Staff is also proposing new rules that will clean up or eliminate the highest-emitting vehicles in the fleet.

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PHEV Emissions California Cleaner 195

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

New research by scientists at King’s College London suggests that air pollution from London’s roads is improving overall but more work may be needed to tackle some sources of traffic pollution, which continue to breach limits in many parts of the city. Heavy vehicles were an important factor in urban air pollution.

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London Pollution Parts Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Cities and local governments around the world understand the reliance on fossil fuels to power cars, buses, trucks, and delivery fleets. However, transportation is responsible for the highest amount of air pollution in America. But there are a few ways to do our part and clear the air.

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Pollution Transportation Clean Cleaning 52

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2020

million for school bus operators to acquire cleaner forms of transportation with lower emissions. Through this program, NYSERDA and NYPA will work with a competitively selected, pre-qualified contractor to study how to transition to electric bus fleets and install the needed charging stations in a cost-effective way.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Clean Diesel Rebate program, public and private school bus fleet owners are eligible to apply for funding to replace school buses that have older, dirtier Diesel engines. Older diesel engines emit large amounts of pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.

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EPA Diesel Emissions 2006 252

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The new buses will replace four, similarly sized biodiesel-powered vehicles, representing more than 30% of Harvard’s fleet. Each year, the fleet transports approximately 600,000 students across Harvard’s campus and the transition to electric is expected to lower greenhouse gas emissions by more than 220,000 pounds annually.

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Buy Massachusetts Electrical Electric 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

BluSmart will use the capital to expand its fleet of electric vehicles and charging stations from its home city of Delhi to five additional Indian cities in the next two years. BluSmart is India’s first and largest integrated EV ride-hailing and charging company, and aims to deliver safer, cleaner and more sustainable mobility.

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India Companies Charging Pollution 221

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Use of electric vehicles would achieve greater reductions in GHG emissions, corresponding to the rate that the electric grid becomes cleaner, through greater reliance on renewables and low- and non-emitting generation. This research points to the importance of two fundamental and parallel trends in energy and the environment.

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