Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

one of the largest publicly traded water, wastewater and natural gas providers in the US, serving approximately 5 million people across 10 states under the Aqua and Peoples brands, is launching a pilot program to electrify its two most popular commercial GM vehicle platforms with the XLH hybrid electric drive system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform.

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2024

Blue Origin is one of a number of private sector actors aiming to harbor commercial activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) as the creaking and leaking International Space Station (ISS) approaches its drawdown. Such endeavors may also end up slowed and controlled by regulation so far absent from many new, commercial areas of space.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Fulcrum will use the BP and JM technology in its new Sierra BioFuels Plant located in Storey County, Nevada, approximately 20 miles east of Reno. Both BP and JM have been developing FT technology for more than 30 years and in 1996 joined forces to incubate and further develop the technology.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2024

Sierra Space recently completed testing of Dream Chaser ‘Tenacity’ at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. These tests are a crucial step in its journey towards the launchpad and for our mission to redefine the future of space commercialization. Questions or comments?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The FT portion of Fulcrum’s process is an adaptation of the well-established Fischer-Tropsch process which has been in commercial operations for decades. In late 2017, Fulcrum began construction on the Sierra BioFuels Plant located near Reno, Nevada. The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Fulcrum’s Sierra BioFuels Plant to enter the final phase of DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program. The Sierra BioFuels Plant will be located approximately 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada in Storey County. Earlier post.) James Macias, Fulcrum President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

Fleet and retail customers can place orders for the 2013Ú Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra 2500 HD beginning 19 April. The Silverado HD and Sierra 2500 HD offer customers fueling flexibility with a combined CNG and gasoline range of more than 650 miles—the longest range available in the bi-fuel truck market. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2021

The XLH system represents the company’s first electrification product to be available for Ram Commercial, Stellantis’ line of commercial pickup trucks. XL Fleet Corp. is now offering its hybrid electric drive system for Ram 2500 and 3500 heavy duty pickup trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

Icom North America, a developer and manufacturer of liquid-injection propane (autogas) systems for commercial and consumer vehicles, has received 17 new US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certifications for its patented JTG II Propane Liquid Injection bi-fuel systems. The GMC-brand vehicles include Sierra, Yukon and Savana vans.

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Teslarati

JULY 6, 2023

This was the 8th mission under Phase 2 of the commercial resupply contract with NASA. A significant note of the Phase 2 contract awarded by NASA, it also included Northrop Grumman Cygnus and Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser spaceplane. The post SpaceX completes 28th commercial resupply mission to ISS appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The team will turn its attention to sustainable aviation challenges related to a jet engine’s combustor but in this case the engine is powering a commercial supersonic transport. Georgia Institute of Technology. This is the fifth time a set of teams have been selected to participate in ULI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

In the past decade, Apex has commercialized $9 billion worth of wind and solar projects representing nearly 7 GW of clean energy opportunity. The Ford F-series pickups being electrified for Apex were acquired by XL Fleet’s Fleet Management Company (FMC) partner Enterprise Fleet Management as part of this transaction.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels. Leveraging Fulcrum’s proprietary process which utilizes proven technologies and capabilities on a commercial scale, SK Inc. Fulcrum’s first MSW-to-fuels facility, Sierra BioFuels, located near Reno, Nev.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Earlier post.). The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The selected projects will accelerate the advancement of these commercially viable technologies. Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Chevrolet also will offer CNG and LPG versions of its new Low Cab Forward commercial truck. liter B20-capable Duramax diesel engines for the Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD. Savana Cargo Savana Passenger Savana Cutaway Sierra HD. Savana Canyon Sierra HD. Savana Sierra Sierra HD Terrain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2016

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. For 2016, the target for diesel and diesel substitutes is 99.97 gCO 2 e/MJ ( Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

a tech leader in improving propulsion efficiency and reducing emissions in passenger cars and commercial vehicles, announced that the one-millionth vehicle utilizing its award-winning Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) technology ( earlier post ) was produced in November 2020. Tula Technology, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Vale and GM have also agreed to study collaborative ways to partner on advanced technology development and commercialization pathways to harvest recycled metals. The amount of contained nickel is sufficient to supply approximately 350,000 EVs annually. Deliveries are targeted to commence in the second half of 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2023

GM is launching a broad portfolio of trucks, SUVs, luxury vehicles and light commercial vehicles using the Ultium Platform, including the GMC HUMMER EV Pickup and SUV, GMC Sierra EV, Cadillac LYRIQ, Cadillac CELESTIQ, Chevrolet Silverado EV, Chevrolet Blazer EV, Chevrolet Equinox EV, BrightDrop Zevo 400 and BrightDrop Zevo 600.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

As each of the following stages heat and compress the biomass, it will outgas commercially viable bio-intermediary compounds that are then taken off to catalytic reaction chambers. Construction of the initial plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2015 with commercial operations beginning in early 2016. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Solid-state catalysts offer promise as an even safer alternative but are currently at the pilot plant stage and have not been used commercially yet for the alkylation process. A mid-September meeting between the local and international union, the Sierra Club and Citizens for Environmental Justice in Corpus Christi is planned.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2017

DMAX makes the Duramax diesel engines for heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks. Duramax engines also power some Navistar commercial trucks, Gale Banks vehicles and even marine applications. GM owns 60 percent and Isuzu owns 40 percent of the joint venture.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Mercedes-Benz will introduce its all-electric Citaro city bus ( earlier post ) in September 2018 at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover. Prototypes have, for example, already successfully undergone initial winter testing in icy temperatures at the Arctic circle as well as summer testing in the heat of Spain’s Sierra Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

Silverado 2500HD and 3500 HD and Sierra HD). In the next year, Ford will offer eight commercial vehicles with a gaseous-prep option: Transit Connect van and wagon. GM offers a CNG bi-fuel option for its HD pickups (e.g., Earlier post.). The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter CNG sells for an average of $2.11 per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2013

The plant includes the same MSW sorting, gasification and fuel production systems that will be utilized in Fulcrum’s commercial plants. Fulcrum has successfully demonstrated its drop-in fuel process using a fully-integrated process demonstration plant. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. —Britta Gross, director, General Motors Advanced Vehicle Commercialization Policy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 1, 2021

This might date me, but who remembers the old 7 Up commercials? They branded themselves as the “Uncola,” because the taste and texture of 7 Up (and later Sprite, Sierra Mist, etc.) is so different from traditional Cola drinks like Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

If approved by the CPUC, the new proposal would enable a much wider deployment of charging stations in the region, which is home to more than 103,000 Class 2 through Class 8 commercial vehicles, including trucks that operate around the congested ports of entry along the US-Mexico border.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

General Motors is expanding its portfolio of B20-capable vehicles to include cars and crossovers, and will field the industry’s most expansive lineup of diesel-powered vehicles in 2017, John Schwegman, director of commercial product and medium duty for GM Fleet, announced at the National Biodiesel Conference. Coupled with a 1.6L GMC Canyon.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

An estimated 800 barrels of biocrude per day will be produced at Fulcrum’s Sierra BioFuels Plant in Reno, Nevada, which is expected to be operational in early 2018. Virent, Inc.:

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2021

million to three aerospace consortiums to develop a new “commercial low Earth orbit destination.” Northrop Grumman Keeping It Simple Starlab, from Nanoracks, Voyager Space, and Lockheed Martin, is a free-flying commercial space station concept. Blue Origin/Sierra Nevada SpaceX’s “Station”? So what might a new station look like?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

No buyer had been found by March 2015, when the Sierra Club, HECA Neighbors and the Association of Irritated Residents filed a motion to terminate the AFC alleging the applicant had not exercised due diligence in pursuit of the AFC.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 16, 2007

If the Sierra Club, NRDC, and the Union of Concerned Scientists awaken from their CAFE-induced slumber and espouse such a message as Roberts' suggests, projects awaiting commercialization from a Toyota plug-in Prius to the Saturn plug-in Vue and the Volt just might get the jolt need. It's about the plug, stupid.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

A year ago Ford nabbed a significant endorsement from the Sierra Club for its limited edition Mercury Mariner hybrid (29/35 mpg - gasoline only) and a promise of 250,000 hybrids by 2010. Sierra Club. Ford has now done an abrupt about face. Ethanol is the alternative fuels flavor of the month, and Ford jumped on GM’s yellow bandwagon.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Expansion of manufacturing for existing electric drive power electronics components for both passenger and commercial vehicles. Increasing US capacity to manufacture hybrid systems for the commercial truck market. Cascade Sierra Solutions. Allison Transmission, Inc. Indianapolis, IN. Ford Motor Company. Sterling Heights, MI.

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