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The SanDiego Metropolitan Transit System Board of Directors recently voted to approve two major bus procurements: up to 350 Gillig 40-foot low-floor CNG buses and up to 165 New Flyer 60-foot low-floor articulated CNG buses through 2017. At the end of the contracts, more than 95% of MTS buses will run on cleaner compressed natural gas.
In an open-access review paper published in Nature Nanotechnology , researchers at the University of California SanDiego offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance all-solid-state batteries to commercialization. candidate at the UC SanDiego Jacobs School of Engineering.
Cajon Valley Union School District (CVUSD) in SanDiego received $1,000,000 to replace five school buses with zero emission battery-electric buses. The project will also replace one diesel sweeper at the Port of Los Angeles with two cleaner Tier 4 engines.
California Assemblymembers Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Lorena Gonzalez (D-SanDiego) introduced legislation to phase out the sale of new gas-powered small off-road engines (SORE), which are primarily used in lawn and garden equipment, including leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and other outdoor power equipment.
on Adopt-a-Port, an initiative that provides truck operators serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) to reduce emissions. Chevron is partnering with California natural gas retailer Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
million); San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District ($44.7 million); SanDiego Air Pollution Control District ($6.5 Local agencies apply to ARB for funding, and then those agencies offer financial incentives to owners of freight transport equipment to switch to cleaner technologies. million); and.
The Los Angeles/Inland Empire, Central Valley, Bay Area and SanDiego/Border regions received the funds from the Proposition 1B, approved by voters in 2006. Previous Proposition 1B funds in 2008 provided $246 million to local agencies putting more than 5,000 cleaner trucks on the state’s roads.
SoCalGas) and Oberon Fuels , a SanDiego-based low-emission alternative fuels company, announced a joint research and development agreement to design and construct the first commercial facility in the United States to produce Dimethyl Ether (DME) from natural gas for use as a transportation fuel. Southern California Gas Co.
With the capabilities to produce a cleaner, non-petroleum-based fuel that exceeds JP-8 specs, Accelergy utilizes proprietary micro-catalytic conversion technologies licensed from Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Company. The companies made the announcement at the 3 rd Algae Biomass Summit in SanDiego. Earlier post.).
One of our initial steps has been developing a leadership team to help clients in the US, Mexico and Canada close the gap from conventional transportation to a cleaner, connected mobility future. Ricardo Inc., We are restructuring our business to increase focus and investment in future technologies.
In a separate action, the California Energy Commission approved $4,979,070 through the current ARFVT program to projects that will support increased numbers of cleaner, alternative fuel vehicles on California roadways. The agreement includes $2.5 million in match funding. The agreement includes $398,564 in match funding.
and one led by SanDiego-based General Atomics—for the award of approximately $40 million in total for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP). The US Department of Energy has selected two teams—one led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co.
Both companies are located in the SanDiego area, we both develop cleaner, more efficient engines and our first order of business is to support Ricardo as they work on an expanding set of opposed-piston internal combustion engine projects. It’s a nice synergy.
The California Energy Commission approved nearly $9 million in grants for the installation of DC fast chargers along major state freeways and highways to allow electric vehicle drivers to travel from SanDiego to the Oregon border without worrying about running out of energy. The grants went to four companies—Chargepoint Inc.;
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SanDiego: Chula Vista and Kearny Mesa. gallon at the Kearny Mesa station in the SanDiego region—essentially at parity with the lowest priced diesel in the area, according to Gasbuddy.com , and well below some of the highest priced diesel in the area at around $4.00 per gallon.
The software will be used to develop cleaner-burning engines and potentially fuels in advance of impending regulations in the US and Europe, which call for limits on the size and number of soot particles emitted by passenger cars. This can shave days, weeks or months from a design cycle to get cleaner cars more quickly on the road.
SanDiego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is preparing for a greener future. The utility aims to facilitate Californias transition to zero-emission vehicles by fostering a cleaner, more sustainable transportation system. While significant progress has been made in adopting EVs, the journey is far from over for SDG&E.
Diesel HPR provides cleaner and more efficient combustion for more power and a smoother ride at a cost similar to or lower than petroleum diesel. Propel offers Diesel HPR at 32 locations across California in Los Angeles, Orange Country, SanDiego, Inland Empire, Sacramento, Fresno and the Bay Area.
In California in the US, our products are already used in Sacramento and SanDiego. Its leading properties ensure cleaner combustion and reduce engine noise and local emissions. —Sam Holmberg, Vice President responsible for Neste's Marketing and Services business area in Finland.
New or upgraded Clean Energy LNG fueling facilities are planned for strategic points along truck transport routes in the California cities of Los Angeles, Commerce, Industry, Fontana, Riverside, Tulare, Barstow, and Otay Mesa/SanDiego.
They did the test in real homes as part of Project Surya, which quantifies the impacts of cleaner cooking technologies in a village in India. The researchers measured black carbon concentrations from five commercial IC models and a traditional mud cookstove. for ND).
Photo: SSA Marine The Port of SanDiego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service. Leading the charge at the Port of SanDiego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal is a 55,000-pound capacity Wiggins Yard eBull battery electric forklift. Get started here. –
The founding members of the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group include: Achates Power, SanDiego, CA. Created with the mission to build cleaner, more efficient engines, Achates Power has an experienced staff of engineers and scientists working with leading engine manufacturers to bring the opposed piston engine to market.
So we continue to concentrate our innovation on making every new generation of BMW gas and diesel engines more efficient, cleaner, and better performing than the one that preceded it. Our insight tells us that this will still be the propulsion choice for between 85 and 95 percent of the world’s vehicles in the year 2020.
Cornell University, in partnership with the University of California, SanDiego, will examine the combustion characteristics of several diesel/biofuel blends. University of Michigan.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that air is cleaner today than it was in the 1970s, more than 130 million people in the US still live in places where smog or particle pollution rises to unhealthful levels. Smog can cause coughing and shortness of breath, and can aggravate asthma or trigger asthma attacks.
That means new jobs, cleaner water and air—and a working model for other states, and the nation, to use as we gear up to fight climate change and make our economy more competitive and resilient. Edison, and SanDiego Gas & Electric), the Proposed Decision finds that an exception is. —ARB Chairman Mary D.
A separate part of the overall agreement requires VW to mitigate the excess NO x emissions of its diesel passenger cars by paying about $422 million to California to replace older, dirtier heavy-duty vehicles and equipment with cleaner versions. Those cities are Fresno, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, SanDiego, and Sacramento.
liter Partial Consent Decree to be spent by California on replacing older, dirtier heavy-duty vehicles and equipment with cleaner vehicles and equipment. Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, SanDiego, and Sacramento).
For the project Ford European Research & Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany, will work together with RWTH Aachen University, the Technical University of Munich, FVV, TUEV, DENSO, IAV Automotive Engineering, and SanDiego, California-based Oberon Fuels ( earlier post ).
Agreements already have been reached between the Alliance and Kanagawa Prefecture and Yokohama City in Japan; the State of Tennessee; the State of Oregon; Sonoma County and SanDiego in California; Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona; Seattle, Wash.; Raleigh, N.C. and Washington, D.C.
To field test its analysis findings, NREL and DOE supported establishing the world’s first fully integrated energy storage system consisting of multiple heterogeneous reused vehicle batteries on the campus of project partner University of California – SanDiego (UCSD). —Mike Ferry, Center for Sustainable Energy.
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SanDiego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) says the maiden voyage of their Class 8 heavy-duty electric semi marks the first time an electric semi has crossed the border hauling a standard load, marking an important milestone as the two nations move toward a net zero future. Those sentiments were echoed by SanDiego Mayor Todd Gloria.
The cities of SanDiego and Long Beach have followed suit. Renewable diesel, it is said, keeps engines cleaner longer, thus decreasing labor hours and material costs associated with vehicle and equipment wear. The city transitioned its fleets from petroleum diesel as part of its low-cost strategy to meet sustainability goals.
Cleaner fuels with lower carbon intensity numbers, such as biofuels, have the potential to provide immediate emission reduction benefits. Recipients included: University of California, SanDiego: $150,000 to demonstrate a catalyst that can remove tar from producer gas in a biomass gasifier. Lower carbon intensity fuels.
Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S. The SanDiego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more.
She has also served as president of the Electric Vehicle Association of SanDiego , now the largest EVA chapter in the country. “I As a private pilot, the name change to “Electric Vehicle Association” resonates with Terri as she looks forward to the rollout of electric planes making the skies quieter and cleaner!
Per Joby founder and CEO JoeBen Bevirt: Traveling by air is central to human progress, but we need to find ways to make it cleaner. Imagine being able to fly from San Francisco to SanDiego, Boston to Baltimore, or Nashville to New Orleans without the need to go to an airport and with no emissions except water.
These apps are “providing a service that doesn’t exist,” says Colin Depp , a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, SanDiego. Providers can’t observe their patients around the clock, he says, but smartphone data can help close the gap. Who participates in the studies matters too.
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In the United States, the Alliance is exploring ways to promote zero-emission mobility and the development of an EV infrastructure in the State of Tennessee, the State of Oregon, Sonoma County and SanDiego in California, and Tucson, Phoenix Arizona, Seattle in Washington and Raleigh in North Carolina. Economic Development Board.
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