Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. liter direct injection engine. direct injection engine.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

will establish the first scaled domestic manufacturing of high-power density magnetic components based on their engineered alloy technology to commercialize new inductors, transformers, and motors of significantly reduced size and weight. CorePower Magnetics, Inc. Award amount: $5,000,000). Award amount: $12,000,000).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

UPS has expanded its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles with the deployment of 200 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks in eight US cities. Before this latest deployment, UPS was operating 50 hybrid electrics in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. Earlier post.). Long Island, Minneapolis and Louisville. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

A hybrid vehicle is defined as a motor vehicle with at least two different energy converters and two different energy storage systems on board the vehicle for the purpose of propelling the vehicle. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis with projects ranked according to the cost per ton of NO x reduced by the project.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Initial members of the C40 Electric Vehicle Network are : Bogota, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Delhi, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Seoul and Sydney. The four vehicle manufacturers are BYD, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), Nissan and Renault.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

More than 2,200 units are already in service, with an additional 850 firm orders in backlog from cities such as New York City, Seattle, Houston, Ottawa and Puerto Rico. Houston Metro is placing an additional order for 80 Orion VII diesel-electric hybrid buses for 2010 delivery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

The HybriDrive series hybrid electric system consists of a diesel-powered generator, an electric motor, and an energy storage system. Seattle and Houston are taking delivery of HybriDrive-powered buses built by Daimler as will Baltimore City, Md., Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Zipcar has more than one million members worldwide who can reserve and use 10,000 cars in 500 cities in nine countries. In the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

The fuel cell tractor, a Navistar International ProStar day cab, features US Hybrid’s FCe80, 80 kW PEM fuel cell system and a 500 hp traction motor with 2,900 lb-ft of direct drive torque (3,750 N·m). Earlier post.). US Hybrid is also providing Caltrans with a fuel cell street sweeper.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in Bogota’s center-city taxi fleet. The transportation sector is the largest and fastest-growing source of urban CO 2 emissions in the Latin American region, as more people become dependent on motorized transport.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2013

The world’s first commercial application of the LNG In A Box system will be for LNG fueling stations in Europe to be delivered by Luxembourg-based LNG firm Gasfin through its operating company AIR-LNG, GE announced at the 17 th International Conference & Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG-17) in Houston.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas. When braking, the motor acts as a generator to recover energy, just like in conventional hybrid vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

” General Motors’ Cruise self-driving car unit faces a trip that could last the better part of this year to convince regulators and a wary public that its robotaxis are fit to share the road with human drivers, industry officials said. .” fleet after an October accident in which a woman was dragged 20 feet (6.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

and with Houston-based Reliant Energy. billion to Ford Motor Company. Last week, DOE also signed a $465-million loan agreement with Tesla Motors, which will be used to build manufacturing facilities in California for electric power-trains and Tesla’s Model S electric sedan. Washington DC, Seattle, Raleigh, N.C.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The ArvinMeritor hybrid has both mechanical and electrical propulsion systems (dual mode), which use the electric motor drive primarily for periods of high demand under low-speed, high-load operating conditions, such as accelerating from a stop. This technology could help Wal-Mart increase its fleet efficiency by up to 25%.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In Spartanburg, SC, BMW’s production facility now hosts the world’s largest fuel cell material handling fleet to date. BMW recently added 175 more fuel cell pallet trucks and forklifts, boosting its fleet to 275 across the 4-million-square foot plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

Coca-Cola Enterprises uses tractors as its standard bulk delivery truck for large deliveries, and plans to deploy the Kenworth hybrid tractors to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New Orleans, New York, Portland (Ore.), The Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks (rated at 33,000 lb.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

US Hybrid’s 170kW and 240kW drive motors currently power monorails in Brazil and Malaysia, while US Hybrid’s 320kW drives power heavy-duty mining equipment as well as Class 8 trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer.

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EV Connect

MAY 17, 2021

Not long ago, the idea that major corporations around the world would make the bold move of switching to all-electric vehicle fleets would have seemed far-fetched, if not inconceivable. The initiative, led by Ceres, aims to push more corporations toward fleet electrification and help expand the demand for electric vehicles.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2024

The team envisions a fleet of these autonomous robots deploying into unmapped underwater cavities beneath Antarctic ice shelves. Fourier ] Bio-Inspired Robot Hands: Altus Dexterity is a collaboration between researchers and professionals from Carnegie Mellon University, UPMC, the University of Illinois and the University of Houston.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Reductions in fleet NH 3 emissions are slow or insignificant in US cities in recent years due to modest reduction in NH 3 emissions from new vehicles and increasing emissions from older vehicles (though with their TWCs still active). ppbv/ppmv, 15% uncertainty) despite differences in fleet composition, climate, and fuel composition.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2014

At the 2014 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Expo in Houston, BYD Motors unveiled a 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus offering a range of 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers. —Brendan Riley, BYD Motors Fleet Sales Vice President.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

A planned outcome of Aramco’s research is to generate vehicle and fleet demonstrations to showcase the benefits of novel fuel/engine systems. With a global refining presence, Aramco brings a perspective into how fuels can be designed and matched to engines for higher performance and lower emissions. automotive industry. —Amin H.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 2, 2023

In a nutshell, we believe that this bio-inspired robot zoo demonstrates how the diverse and fascinating abilities of living creatures can serve as inspiration and principles for developing robotics technology capable of achieving multiple robotic functions and solving complex motor control problems in systems with many degrees of freedom.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Philippi Family by CalCars and Maker Faire Team, May 2007 (Houston, TX), contact philippi at houston.rr.com Nilar, Inc. Motors Ltd, Toyota Prius by ETVM team, January 2009 (Herzliya, Israel), info@etvmotors.com Nikki and Kate Gordon-Bloomfield, 2004 Prius, by Self, February 2009 (Bristol, England). or s.peeraer@spinnovation.com.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said. — t_F 10.

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