Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

Due to the central role of water splitting in a sustainable energy economy, the cost efficiency of this process is crucial and even one percent could save billions of dollars. The analysis found that the energy requirements, the capital, and the operating costs of seawater desalination are marginal compared to those of water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) introduced a variety of green innovations to reduce CO 2 emissions and pollution in the railway sector. The effort is part of France’s strategy to eventually phase diesel power out of its national rail fleet.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2024

So to help bring the cost of space-based astronomy down, researchers at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa are working on a way to process starlight on a tiny optical chip. Replacing filters, lenses, and mirrors with a chip also improves stability and scalability compared to ordinary optical parts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2023

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited is acquiring six Volvo VNR Electric trucks, as part of a pilot program to service its customer delivery routes throughout the Greater Montreal Area. The charging infrastructure is anticipated to be complete in June 2023.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2022

As part of the agreement, Electreon will provide Electra Afikim with wireless charging infrastructure that will enable simultaneous charging of 30 buses, 24 hours a day. As part of the agreement Electreon will provide maintenance, support and operation services for the next 12 years. The cost of the deal is $1.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2021

This project is part of ArcelorMittal’s new global 25% CO 2 2030 emissions reduction target which was announced yesterday in our second climate action report. The company expects to deploy approximately 35% of this $10-billion investment by 2025 with the remainder in the second part of this decade.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By reducing manufacturers’ development and project costs, our powerpack solutions will also help to lower the Total Cost of Ownership. This corresponds to ZF’s already announced fuel cell partnership for the development of a coach prototype as part of the HyFleet project. We are investing heavily in the mobility of the future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

Volvo robotaxis are rolling out in suburban Shanghai as part of a pilot program from China’s dominant ride-hailing platform, Didi Chuxing. According to an April report from China EV100, a nonprofit think tank, the cost of an unmanned taxi is currently around $100,000 more than a regular taxi.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2021

However, Germany is now financing 80% of the higher purchase cost of e-buses. And as part of the public procurement process, bus contracts should be awarded only to operators meeting or exceeding these targets. Italy, Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain and France, which buy 70% of the urban buses sold in Europe, lag behind.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2021

LAB7 aims to integrate Aramco’s composite materials into Gaussin’s existing range of products to reduce the weight, energy consumption and cost of these vehicles. As a part of this agreement, Aramco also has the option to subscribe for up to 20% of the common stock of Gaussin shares. Gaussin hydrogen-powered Dakar racer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2021

The EU Commission’s proposal for an EU battery regulation provides for a gradual increase in recycling targets for certain raw materials in lithium-ion batteries by 2030 as part of minimum ecological requirements. The design is such that robots can take over large parts of the work. The IAV battery concept replaces aluminum with steel.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The feedback from our customers over the last three years has been that they love the platform and its powerful, smooth and quiet ride, as well as the intuitive driving experience and readily available service and spare parts. The voucher program can reduce the upfront cost of advanced zero-emission fleet vehicles by 30 to 70 percent.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As part of a larger £90 million (US$117 million) package of awards to cut carbon emissions in industry and homes, the UK is awarding £28 million (US$36.5 The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The trial also forms part of Pure Hydrogen’s broader market strategy to demonstrate the commercial use-case of affordable hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Pure Hydrogen expects its net cost of this initiative will be about $410,000 for the trial which if successful creates a growing hydrogen clean energy market.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The new Service Station can save costs on hydrogen production, storage and transportation by more than 20% compared to traditional hydrogen refueling stations; it is intended to become a pilot model to lead the development of China's hydrogen energy industry. As part of Sinopec’s commitment to becoming China’s No.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2022

Not only does this increase throughput, it reduces the cost of custom-printed products. Ford has used the printer to make low-volume, custom parts, such as a brake line bracket for the Performance Package-equipped Mustang Shelby GT500.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The new manufacturing center at the Dearborn-based Rouge Center, once complete, will add 300 jobs and is part of a $700-million investment in building the all-new F-150 lineup, including the first F-150 PowerBoost hybrid. Rendering of the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group and a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, has installed charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks as part of its ongoing partnership with Volvo Trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2021

The voucher program reduces the upfront cost of advanced zero-emission fleet vehicles and requires manufacturers to have CARB and HVIP certification to participate. The new electric vans will be a part of that service beginning in May.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This agreement supports Hiringa and its partners’ strategy to roll out over 1,500 FCEVs by 2026, driving the cost of the technology down and unlocking widespread adoption of zero emission heavy transport. Earlier post.). —Craig Knight, Co-Founder of HYZON Motors. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The company also announced it would buy installed Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) RSUs from roadway operators, which were made obsolete by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as part of any upgrade to C-V2X. The buyback of installed DSRC units is to help offset the costs of converting to C-V2X. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

An economic study by research group Steer, and commissioned by T&E, looked at future operating costs of hydrogen planes on intra-European flights and found that they could be an efficient, cost competitive technology to decarbonize the sector, provided kerosene is taxed adequately. (If GJ—approximately €0.37/L.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Part-funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), Ford’s consortium of six automotive technology leader and fleet operator partners will also help to determine the supporting hydrogen refuelling infrastructure required.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

As part of the agreement, Hyzon is acquiring a minority interest in Raven SR. Hyzon aims to be one of the first companies to supply our customers with a hydrogen fuel cell truck, including our own garbage trucks, at total cost of ownership (TCO) parity with diesel-powered commercial vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

The eFlyer 800 will have only one-fifth the operating costs of traditional twin turboprops and is geared for the air-taxi, air-cargo, regional and charter aircraft markets. The eFlyer 800 is the first all-electric propulsion technology airplane that achieves twin-turboprop performance and safety with no CO 2 and extremely low operating costs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems (SHARKS) program. These methodologies will significantly decrease the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of the final HKT design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2020

A 27-tonne hydrogen fuel cell rigid truck built by VDL started its first demonstration with BREYTNER as part of the EU-funded H2-Share project in Schelluinen, the Netherlands. At this moment, there are some roadblocks for widely cost-effectively deploying hydrogen-electric heavy-duty vehicles in the market. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

As part of the FC Komp funding project of the German government, which runs until 2021, Pierburg GmbH, a member of the Rheinmetall Group, is currently involved in the development of a highly integrated high-power fuel cell driveline. Moreover, by distributing the hydrogen homogeneously in the cell, it enables improved cold-start response.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2020

As part of the demonstration, Expo Park visitors were able to use their smartphones to call up electric carts, which were charged by a solar-powered wireless charging system. The demonstration integrated electric mobility, DAIHEN’s wireless charging system, on-demand vehicle reservation systems, location information and data utilization (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

Under the Clean School Bus Program, half of the available funding is dedicated for zero-emission school buses and half is for clean school buses, the latter being a school bus that reduces emissions and is operated entirely or in part using an alternative fuel or is a zero-emission bus.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Yutong’s delivery comes as the Chilean government has launched an environmentally-friendly urban development policy, part of which includes a program to replace current city buses with new-energy vehicles by 2050. The 100 full electric buses will be used by Buses Vule and STP Santiago to serve the Santiago public transportation system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

These findings on maintenance and repair costs are part of an upcoming white paper by Consumer Reports that compares costs of ownership for electric and gas-powered vehicles. —Gabe Shenhar, associate director of CR’s Auto Test Center. The full white paper will be published in the coming weeks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2023

trillion Infrastructure and Jobs Act, and incentives that are part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act—including the Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit—have provided billions in new funding for both commercial EV acquisition and EV infrastructure. Federally, the United States’ passing of the $1.2-trillion

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Reduced vehicle stoppages and need for spare parts. Reduced maintenance – electric drivelines have much fewer maintenance requirements compared to conventional solutions. Possibilities to benefit from green incentives. Next steps. TICO will build a series of prototypes in close collaboration with Volvo Penta.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The initiative is part of the Yellowstone Visitor Use Management Program, which is focused on testing a range of pilot projects around the park to enhance the visitor experience. Project partners will also look at potential system locations, routes, stops, fleet requirements, business models, ridership and costs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

Hyundai will support the construction cost of the hydrogen refueling station while providing up to 12 fuel cell electric buses as well as their maintenance and service. The partnership is part of Korea’s Ministry of Environment’s project to install hydrogen refueling stations and subsidize privately financed infrastructure projects.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

The purpose of the joint study is to confirm the optimal size of the project, the cost of synthetic biogas for district heating, and to understand the boundary conditions for project feasibility. Once feasible, the parties intend to continue joint development of the project towards a commercial-scale pilot project.

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