Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Universal Hydrogen signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Icelandair Group under which Icelandair and Universal Hydrogen will pursue the implementation of green hydrogen as a propellant for Icelandair’s domestic aircraft fleet. The aircraft are expected to have equivalent or better unit economics compared to the existing fleet.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Manufacture of the small-series hydrogen-powered vehicle is taking place in the pilot plant at its Munich Research and Innovation Centre (FIZ). The BMW Group is commencing production of its BMW iX5 Hydrogen model. —Frank Weber, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Development.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

Proterra , a leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology, and Lightning eMotors announced a new collaboration to power the Generation 4 Lightning Electric Transit commercial van using Proterra’s battery technology. —Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The objective of this agreement is to develop a project to repower and put into service 400 switcher and line-haul freight locomotives, all 100% powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) and/or renewable natural gas (RNG) with low or zero emissions, in line with the Argentina’s decarbonization goals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC, a provider of fuel cell power solutions for motive applications, is teaming with DD DANNAR, LLC (DANNAR) on an integration project to develop hydrogen fuel cell power solutions to markets in need of clean power options that may include municipalities, fleets, military applications, agriculture and mining.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

Charging-as-a-service provider AMPLY Power is managing the charging of electric buses for Eastern Contra Costa Transit Authority, which is operating under the name Tri Delta Transit. AMPLY expects savings to increase as Tri Delta Transit expands its electric bus fleet in the future. —Vic Shao, CEO of AMPLY.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

have signed a Heads of Agreement that secures access for Hiringa and its fleet partners to the supply of hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered zero-emission Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs). New Zealand’s Hiringa Energy and US-based HYZON Motors Inc. This is an exciting milestone for Hiringa Energy and our partners. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Honda e units will be used as part of a car-sharing fleet in a trial which uses the Honda e’s bi-directional charging function to feed energy back to the grid when the vehicles are not in use for sharing. To allow bi-directional charging, Honda is also providing 35 Honda Power Manager units. Honda Power Manager and Honda e.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Electrofuels provider Infinium announced an agreement with Amazon to begin using Infinium Electrofuels in the retailer’s middle mile fleet as an ultra-low carbon alternative to traditional fossil fuels. The clean burning electrofuels will be produced for Amazon at one of the first electrofuels production facilities, located in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Anheuser-Busch is transitioning more than 180 trucks—representing approximately 30% of its dedicated fleet—to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). Louis to fleets powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines. The two fleets are expected to travel more than 8.5 million miles each year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

is adding 53 all-electric transport refrigerated trailer units (TRUs) to its fleet located at the company’s Riverside, Calif. Nearly 50 percent of UNFI’s direct greenhouse gas emissions are from our fleet of trucks and trailers. —Jeff Wismans, national director of fleet operations at UNFI. United Natural Foods, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Proterra Powered leverages Proterra’s electric vehicle technology and expertise to help commercial vehicle manufacturers electrify their vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

British Airways (BA) has teamed up with ZeroAvia, a leading innovator in decarbonizing commercial aviation ( earlier post ), in a project to explore how hydrogen-powered aircraft can play a leading role in the future of sustainable flying. ZeroAvia’s hydrogen fuel cell powered flight at Cranfield in September.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) will install an innovative clean energy microgrid and EV fleet charging system with Proterra and Scale Microgrid Solutions to help power the agency’s transition to a 100% zero-emission bus fleet, following a grant that was awarded for the project by the California Energy Commission this week.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

The grant, awarded by the California Energy Commission (CEC), will be used to acquire charging stations, batteries, and the other solar infrastructure required to support ATN’s MicroGrid and zero-emission vehicle fleet. —Diana Kotler, ATN Executive Director. ATN transports more than 9.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

An electric school bus in Beverly, Massachusetts, successfully delivered power back to the electricity grid for more than 50 hours over the course of the summer using vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2022

This analysis found the following: Commercial Trucks: 76% of the approximately 15 million commercial trucks (Class 3-8) that make up the nation’s fleet run on diesel. Of those, the newest generation of advanced diesel technology models now account for 53% of that fleet. Electric and other categories each register less than 1%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Lawrence Governors & Premiers (GSGP), will assess the suitability of alternative fuels and power options for Great Lakes shipping. Over a period of 16 months, researchers will assess alternative fuels and power options in the region and will develop a detailed profile of Great Lakes fleets, ports, and fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Each year, the North American rail fleet emits approximately 87.6 The research team is developing combustion technology to power the next generation of trains with up to 100% hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels. Locomotives have a service life of more than 30 years, so replacing the entire fleet would take decades.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

ABB E-mobility announced details of its new HVC360 fleet charging solution. While the growing number of public charging points is excellent news for EV drivers, these alone do not meet the needs of electric fleets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Aurora provided a first look at the Aurora-powered Volvo VNL—Volvo’s flagship long-haul truck, integrated with the Aurora Driver’s sensor suite. Over the next several months, Aurora will integrate its feature-complete hardware kit and test and validate Aurora-powered Volvo VNL trucks through its robust Virtual Testing Suite.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2023

Motiv Power Systems announced the new Argo Series electric truck featuring a medium-duty EV cab designed from the ground up, with customer-driven miles and fleet owner feedback built in. The launch of Argo is a strategic step for Motiv intended to triple the company’s market size.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

South African companies are increasingly adopting electric vehicles as part of their fleets. One of the first to do so was South African retailer Woolworthswhen it rolled out a fleet of over 40 electric vans a couple of years ago. FedEx also introduced electric vans in South Africa. The Shoprite.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

At this year’s demopark open-air exhibition, Mercedes-Benz is presenting a prototype of the Unimog based on the U 430 with hydrogen-powered combustion engine as part of the publicly funded “WaVe” project. This variant could prove to be a possible alternative drive type for the Unimog.

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Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Various off-grid solutions are available, but the best approach may be a flexible one—using some combination of onsite generation, battery storage and grid power, according to what’s available and what’s needed for the application. Paired Power offers a pair of microgrid-based products. How much power is available at the site?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the UK’s Royal Mail’s continued drive to reduce emissions associated with its operations, it has converted the last-mile fleet of a Bristol Delivery Office to be 100% electric. The electricity for powering the office and for charging the vehicles is from 100% renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This was one of the biggest contracts for battery-powered buses in Europe and the largest one for the manufacturer in Germany so far. Berlin now has a total of 123 electric Solaris buses in its fleet. Solaris has completed the delivery of 90 Urbino 12 electric buses for Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility’s fleet of XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks has collectively exceeded 1 million kilometers of driving in 11 months of service in Switzerland. During that time, the fleet has reduced CO 2 emissions by more than an estimated 630 tons, compared to diesel-powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Now, Argent has switched its fleet from petroleum diesel to Neste MY Renewable Diesel. Our environmental track record and continual efforts to help our customers build more sustainable communities played a major role in our decision to use renewable diesel in our fleet. —Bill Crotinger, president of Argent Materials Inc.<>/div>.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

During the second circuit over the airport, we were comfortable with the performance of the hydrogen powertrain, so we were able to throttle back the fossil fuel turbine engine to demonstrate cruise principally on hydrogen power.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

million contract for 20 Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit buses, featuring more than 13 megawatt hours of battery storage energy, and two Proterra megawatt-scale fleet chargers. The company’s fleet of zero-emission, electric transit buses have displaced more than 140 million pounds of CO 2 tailpipe emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Achates Power announced that the 10.6-liter, liter, heavy-duty opposed-piston, three-cylinder diesel engine it developed in a project funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and several partners ( earlier post ) has entered fleet service with WALMART Corporation in a Peterbilt 579 tractor. liter engine.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

The Black Sea is almost 1,200 kilometers long, and the proposed undersea power cable would need to run the length of it, making it the longest and deepest in the world. And vital undersea cables elsewhere in Europe have recently been targeted, including a power line under the Baltic Sea that was severed in December.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The study explores the potential performance characteristics, fuel-related costs and emissions, and replaceable fossil fuel market of LH 2 -powered aircraft entering service in 2035. CO 2 e emissions from passenger aviation under various scenarios of adoption of LH 2 - powered aircraft, 2020 to 2050. Mukhopadhaya and Rutherford (2022).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2022

Automakers are already moving toward electric vehicles, but by establishing clear lines of communication between manufacturers and major consumers, we can accelerate that transition to the point where we’re meeting critical climate goals as well as fleets’ operational needs. Alliance members recognize that the future is electric.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2023

Hydrogen production has commenced at the US’ first 1 MW demonstration-scale, nuclear-powered hydrogen production facility at Constellation’s Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant in Oswego, New York. This accomplishment tangibly demonstrates that our nation’s existing reactor fleet can produce clean hydrogen today.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

In Europe DHL Express connects consumers and businesses in more than 60 countries and territories relying on a pickup and delivery fleet that consists of around 500 electric vans, mainly operating in urban regions, and 14,000 non-electric vehicles today. A majority are large vans used for urban and metropolitan deliveries.

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