Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2009

s prototype plug-in electric/hydrogen fuel cell Class 8 Tyrano truck completed the second stage of its performance testing at the Los Angeles Freightliner facilities in Whittier, CA. Vision designed the Tyrano to replace short haul diesel trucks operating in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Vision Industries Corp. ’s

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

Enova brought its Ze (zero emissions) commercialized all-electric step-van to the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach. Plug-in school bus. The three-year project will result in an enhanced all-electric drive capability for the plug-in, said Aaron Shay, Director, Vehicle Integration. The Ze electric drive system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2012

I-710 is a major north-south interstate freeway connecting the city of Long Beach to central Los Angeles. Via this corridor, trucks would travel from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the Vernon/Commerce rail yards via a separate facility from the general purpose lanes, generating no local emissions. Background.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The hybrid tug used in the study, the Carolyn Dorothy ( earlier post ), is powered by two 1,342 kW Cummins QSK50-M main engines and 317 kW Cummins QSM11-M auxiliary generators. All engines meet United Stated Environmental Protection Agency’s Tier 2 certification. Further engine histograms. operating mode weighing factors.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

The truck will use the currently available Cummins Westport ISL G Near Zero NOx engine fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG) to generate electrical power. Kenworth is developing a prototype Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell tractor, using the Ballard Power Systems fuel cell to recharge the battery pack. A third project received $4.8

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

The device is a vertical vessel packed with proprietary fiber that achieves non-dispersive-phase contact without the problems inherent in conventional dispersive mixing devices, such as aqueous phase carryover, hydrocarbon losses, lack of turndown ability, long settling times, plugging and flooding.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California. The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Poway, California-based Plug In Conversions Corp. kWh NiMH plug-in hybrid (PHEV) conversion kit that enables all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (until the battery pack is depleted) in a converted Prius. PICC) has completed a software upgrade to its 6.1 Andrew Ewert. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 24, 2023

Beginning in 2024 the cars will be powered by hybrid engines. One such company is Capstone Engineered Solutions, which is backing the No. Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity, at the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, to sit down with Jim Crouse, the president and CEO of Capstone Engineered Solutions.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? Plugging into the SoCal grid, in this case, SoCal Edison, this PHEV tug is significantly cleaner than its diesel burning brethren.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

Aymeric Rousseau, program manager at Argonne, presented a small slice of this wide study at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC) this week in Long Beach. These were compared to a conventional HEV, using the same hybrid drive as the power split PHEV, and a conventional combustion engine vehicle.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

I have seen the future my friends and it looks exactly like a 76 degree January day filled with beautiful people driving gorgeous plug-in hybrid and plug-in electric cars. The Plug-Ins are coming and you should wait till they get here before buying your next new car. Few have done more for the Plug-In Car movement.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Arc has built the first models of its much-anticipated Arc Sport 500hp electric wake boat, and we got a chance to take it for a quick demo in Long Beach, CA and holy heck, this thing rips. Its cofounders, Mitch Lee and Ryan Cook, are engineers who met while working at Boeing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

NREL presented its initial calorimeter—initially fabricated by Calorimetry Sciences Corporation and later improved upon by NREL—at the Long Beach Battery Conference in January 1998. The new isothermal calorimeter will be based on patent-pending technology developed by a team of NREL researchers.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

Hummer cars are known to have previously achieved as little as 12mpg, but thanks to Raser Technologies; who are currently exhibiting the new Hummer at the Plug-In Conference 2009, until Wednesday, 12 August at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California; the reputation of the Hummer could be on the mend.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

When engineers specify components that aren’t automotive-rated, they are then forced to spend time in extensive testing to make sure their vehicles don’t catch fire. It takes so long to write a standard, for everybody in the industry to come together and come to an agreement. The standards committees just don’t move that fast.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Bill Ford began talking about the future of personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion last year at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach. Bill Ford began talking about the future of personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion last year at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

At least GM sent this nifty printed banner explaining all about the new J1772 industry standard recharging plug. They even had a real plug connected to their toy car on the exhibit hall. Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

If you’re like me you would have found Tuesday’s gathering in Santa Monica a very sexy day at the beach. You know, the kind of stuff never discussed on television or in the newspapers anymore. Having the world’s greatest car is nice. But knowing how to sell it best is the kind of genius I can appreciate. .

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