Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PM emissions from current vehicles in Beijing could be reduced by approximately 19% by simply blending 20% synthetic diesel with currently available diesel, according to a new study by Tsinghua University, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and Greyrock Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2020

The City and Borough of Juneau will receive funds to purchase new electric buses to replace aging diesel buses and associated charging infrastructure. Alabama A&M University will receive funds to purchase zero-emission electric buses, which will replace diesel buses that have reached the end of their useful life.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Funds awarded under this program cannot be used to fund emission reductions mandated under federal law.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Greyrock Energy, a developer of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) process that produces synthetic diesel, will participate with Tsinghua University of Beijing, China and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of Reno, Nevada to quantify the positive impact on air quality from the use of synthetic diesel fuels as compared with petroleum derived diesel fuels.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Tesla Semi is currently only in low-volume production at a facility outside Gigafactory Nevada. In January 2023, Tesla announced a massive expansion of Gigafactory Nevada to add production of Tesla Semi trucks and 4680 battery cells and to finally expand the factory to its originally planned size. Now, it’s about scale.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Nevada-based Advanced Refining Concepts, LLC, (ARC) has developed a process—called ClearRefining—for the upgrading of ultra-low sulfur diesel to a lighter, cleaner burning, higher quality fuel. The ClearRefining units are “zero-emission” at the refinery, Gunnerman said. Tags: Diesel Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2017

Traditionally, a public transit buses life expectancy is measured in terms of the number of miles on its diesel engine. A diesel engine’s life expectancy is 6 years or 250,000 miles before overhaul. FCEB #7 is one of thirteen zero-emission buses operated by AC Transit. —AC Transit Board Director Chris Peeples.

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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

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Teslarati

MAY 21, 2024

During his talk at the ACT Expo clean transportation conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Dan Priestley, the Senior Manager of the Tesla Semi program, revealed that efforts are now underway to deliver 50 more units of the all-electric Class 8 truck to PepsiCo. It appears that PepsiCo’s Tesla Semi pilot program has been successful so far.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 11, 2016

Today, we drive the 2016 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Td6 diesel luxury SUV, Volkswagen's labor leader warns that U.S. fines related to diesel-emissions cheating could lead to job cuts, and Faraday Future puts up a $75 million bond to reassure lawmakers about its Nevada factory. The Volkswagen diesel scandal.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 30, 2024

Photo: Blue Bird In a major milestone, Blue Bird (Nasdaq: BLBD) has delivered its 2,000th electric school bus to Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada. Replacing 2,000 diesel-powered school buses with 2,000 electric buses reduces carbon emissions by more than 21,000 metric tons annually.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Class 8 BYD 8TT delivered its zero-emission cargo from Port of Oakland to Tracy, CA. As the largest motor carrier at the port, GSC hauls about 120,000 containers of cargo across Northern California and Nevada annually. It is traversed by I-580. The 8TT delivers 483 hp and 1,770 lb-ft of torque, powered by a 409 kWh battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

Proterra has 63 buses on the road today in Texas, California, Massachusetts, Nevada, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina and Washington. million pounds of CO 2 emissions. In aggregate, Proterra has saved transit agencies across North America more than 420,000 gallons in fuel and prevented more than 7.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Proterra will nearly double its production capacity in 2016 as an increasing number of transit agencies see zero-emission buses as a credible and proven alternative to diesel, CNG, and hybrid buses.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Fulcrum has developed and demonstrated a proprietary thermochemical process that converts MSW feedstock into low-carbon renewable transportation fuels including jet fuel and diesel. This syngas is purified and processed through the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process to produce a syncrude product which is then upgraded to jet fuel or diesel.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Straubel felt that transport battery packs from Tesla’s Gigafactory plant in Reno, Nevada, to its car plant in Fremont, California, in diesel vans used to be opposite to the corporate’s venture of zero-emission transportation. Tesla’s Nevada plant is getting a $3.6

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Baua Electric

JUNE 30, 2024

The Nikola HFCEV is a Class 8 tractor with a range of about 800 kilometers ( over 400 miles ) “per tank” and an 82,000,000 GCWR that can, when compared to a conventional semi, avoid putting nearly 100 metric tons of CO2 tailpipe emissions into the air each year – which is one of the reasons electrifying the commercial truck sector is so critical.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

liter MidRange, factory-built, dedicated natural gas engine ( earlier post ), to the Type C School bus market at the North American School Bus Show – STN Expo Conference and Trade Show in Reno, Nevada. diesel engine platform. No Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) or Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) aftertreatment will be required.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 25, 2016

Today, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett battle over carbon-free electricity in Nevada, engineers explain how they uncovered Volkswagen's diesel-emissions cheating, and we take a look at the 2016 Isle of Man TT Zero race for electric motorcycles. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. In addition to its use of alternative vehicles, UPS uses millions of gallons of lower carbon footprint renewable diesel and renewable natural gas (RNG) in its fleet each year.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Why electric school buses are needed The best reason to switch from ICE school buses to electric school buses can be summed up in just two words: child wellness. Many school districts use diesel buses for fuel efficiency, but even diesel exhaust was classified as a known carcinogen to humans in 2012. What about electric buses?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

The resulting decrease in the use of conventional gas and diesel decreased CO 2 emissions by 100,000 metric tons, he said. The use of natural gas reduces greenhouse gas emissions six to 11 percent, according to the US Department of Energy. million gallons of renewable natural gas. Orlando, Fla.; Salina, Kan.; Louisville, Ky.;

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Diesel Ports and Marine'

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Musk noted that the event is taking place right next to Tesla Giga Nevada where the Semi’s drive units and other parts are made. vehicle emissions and 36% of U.S. vehicle particulate emissions. This thing has crazy power relative to a diesel truck,” Musk said. Why build the Tesla Semi?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

The small footprint mini-refinery, to be operated by Red Lion, is expected to produce 350,000 gallons per year of synthetic diesel with a high biomass to fuel energy conversion efficiency. The technology can be manipulated to produce syngas with different H 2 to CO ratios.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

One negative side effect of a lean burn engine, whether powered by gasoline or diesel fuel, is an increase in the amount of emissions released to the environment. The hydrogen causes the fuel to burn more completely, resulting in greater fuel efficiency, less emissions, and more power.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Initially, the E 200 d models of the new E-Class will be available with an all-new four-cylinder OM 654 diesel engine ( earlier post ), while the E 200 will be powered by a four-cylinder gasoline engine and the E 350 d by a six-cylinder diesel. New OM 654 four-cylinder diesel. Mercedes-Benz E-Class, E 220 d. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We plan to connect this group of LNG fueling stations in Southern California to Northern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. These programs call for the retirement or conversion of old diesel trucks entering the ports in favor of new cleaner-burning and alternative-fueled trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2015

to build a fast-fill CNG station at a new bus depot being constructed for ART, which will initially deploy 25 new CNG transit buses that are expected to consume 225,000 DGEs (diesel gallon equivalents) of CNG a year. less than gasoline or diesel, depending on local market conditions. Schlosser Co. Natural gas fuel costs up to $1.00

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The contribution of biomass-based diesel to the 21 billion gallon goal can be no less than 1 billion gallons and will be determined at a later date by rulemaking. An additional 4 billion gallons of advanced biofuels (defined by the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50%) by 2022 is also mandated. Regional contributions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

and greenhouse gas emissions and could be deployed in remote. of Natural Gas into Diesel Fuel. methane found in natural gas into liquid diesel fuel. input that would cut costs, greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dependency on foreign oil. Nevada Las. also reducing cost and emissions. BTUs worldwide).

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Electrifying commercial vehicles is a critical part of reducing emissions, so it’s frustrating that the pace of fleet electrification has been so slow. Charged spoke with Salim Youssefzadeh, WattEV’s CEO, about the company’s vision of a profitable zero-emission transport fleet. Charged : You’ve broken ground on your first facility.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? Production causes more emissions than combustion engine models, an EV beginning life with a heavy "emissions debt.” km over their lifetime.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? Production causes more emissions than combustion engine models, an EV beginning life with a heavy "emissions debt.” km over their lifetime.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This winter, residents in the Sierra Nevada mountains lost power for days due to heavy snow storms. Due largely to possessing the ability to self-regulate, California is known for having some of the strictest emission rules in the country. People with electric vehicles couldn't charge them to evacuate or heat their homes.

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