Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Recent innovations in autonomous public transport. In May 2017, Reno, Nevada, boasted that it is laying the groundwork for the industry’s first driverless bus program, launching a three-phase process to roll out a full fleet in its downtown area. These kinds of programs seek to do more than economize public transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

New York City is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. The Administration is also working towards the use of electric vehicles in the City’s fleet of more than 13,000 yellow taxis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Singapore-based TUM CREATE unveiled an electric taxi prototype designed for tropical megacities, codenamed EVA, at the Tokyo Motor Show. EVA was designed from the ground-up as an e-taxi and is a result of interdisciplinary research in the areas of energy storage, battery charging, thermal management, and lightweight materials and design.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Erhardt et al. —Erhardt.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2012

GE and Chesapeake Energy Corporation have agreed to collaborate to develop infrastructure solutions that will help accelerate the adoption of natural gas as a transportation fuel. This represents savings totaling as much as $1,500 per fleet vehicle per year. gallon and CNG at $2.09/gasoline gasoline gallon equivalent.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The research suggests that driverless vehicles will have a disruptive impact on transportation around the world and will ultimately lead to millions of professional drivers being made redundant. Juniper predicts that city-based taxi services will be one of the key early adopters of driverless vehicles. —James Hodgson.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved funding of more than $20 million to support low carbon transportation projects; about half went to Tesla Motors. the air district will demonstrate specially designed battery electric taxis that can use switchable batteries to give the vehicles essentially unlimited range.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Smith said its decision to locate a facility in Chicago was influenced by the Mayor’s innovative voucher system created to accelerate the conversion from diesel to zero-emission, all-electric commercial vehicles, the large number of fleets interested in vehicle electrification, and the development incentives made available to Smith.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Although the reports both focus strongly on the increased use of natural gas in power generation, they also explore the likely impact of increased natural gas use on transportation. The MIT report, which is focused on the US, albeit within a global context, concludes that natural gas use in the transportation sector is likely to increase.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2015

A fleet of self-driving shared cars combined with high-capacity public transport could make 90% of conventional cars in mid-sized cities superfluous under certain circumstances, according to a study published by the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD. While the former remains manageable, the latter would not be.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

PG&E ’s proposal is aimed at accelerating widespread EV adoption and combatting climate change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions related to transportation. SDG&E is proposing to install tens of thousands of EV charging stations in new, key areas to help accelerate the transition to electric transportation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

MaaS provides aggregated, single account, on-demand multimodal transportation services in a seamless and convenient way. Driverless technology, through the Car as a Service, or CaaS, paradigm, will be the defining factor for the success of on-demand mobility, offering consumers the possibility to summon transportation on the fly.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

A fleet of shared self-driving cars in Stockholm could reduce rush hour traffic volumes by 14 cars for every shared vehicle, according to researchers at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Already in Stockholm taxi traffic accounts for half the total traffic, with about 272,000 such trips daily. Resources. ?Pierre-Jean

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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. Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that Columbus, OH has been selected as the winner of the US Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge. The Smart City Challenge required each city to think about transportation as cross-functional, not in silos, but as a transportation ecosystem. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Combining human and artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles could push driverless cars more quickly toward wide-scale adoption, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). This could make it particularly valuable to ride-sharing and fleet operators. Foster, Walter S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved Electrify America’s plan to invest its second $200 million in California Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure and education programs. This approach offers another means of serving disadvantaged and low-income populations that rely on public transportation.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

With pioneering initiatives like the visionary Superblocks project , the Sentilo IoT traffic management platform , and plans to make all public buses electric by 2040, the city has attracted much praise for its innovative transport thinking. As the customer, you have the choice of selecting an EV or hybrid within both of these apps.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

By 2003, all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi were retrofitted to run on CNG; only new vehicles with CNG engines are now available. In Delhi, there are more than 55,000 CNG auto-rickshaws for hire, providing flexible mobility that is faster and more reliable than city buses while costing less than conventional taxis.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 29, 2022

By combining flexibility and experience with industry-leading technology, Fleet Partners offers innovative, cost-effective, tailored solutions designed to meet the needs of every business. Businesses big and small will play a vital role in reducing New Zealand’s carbon emissions through the transition to more sustainable transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

Electric passenger cars currently cost €4K to €5K (US$5,079 to $6,349) more to their owners than an equivalent fossil fuel car over the vehicle’s lifetime, according to the latest policy brief from the International Transport Forum (ITF), an intergovernmental organization with 54 member countries at the OECD. value for money.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

UK retailer Sainsbury Online, which uses the Smith Electric Vehicles Edison electric vans for home shopping delivery in London, is ordering another 50 Smiths electric vans for its fleet. With 100 Smith Electric Vehicles electric commercial vehicles, TNT has the largest fleet of new technology electric delivery trucks in the world.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely Auto has invested significant resources in the development and promotion of methanol-fueled engines and vehicles over a long period and has already made progress with this technology in China. CSI says this is the world’s first production of a liquid renewable transport fuel from non-biological sources of energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

The study was conducted by consulting firm PRTM, with additional support provided by the Electrification Coalition (EC), International Council on Clean Transport (ICCT) and the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (ICET). —“The China New Energy Vehicles Program” Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2009

UPS intends to achieve its 2020 airline goals by: Investing in more fuel-efficient aircraft types and engines; Fuel-saving operational initiatives, such as lower flight speeds; reduced flight segments, where viable; computer-optimized flight plans; computer-managed aircraft taxi times; and jet engine washing; and. MMT in 2007.customers

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

will receive $2,999,172 to install two hydrogen fueling stations and to automate two trailer loading operations for transporting hydrogen for fueling from a production facility in Southern California. This effort builds on a productive partnership of public agencies to make progress in attaining a clean, sustainable transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

Aviation gasoline is utilized in general aviation aircraft with piston engines—which are generally used for instructional flying, air taxi activities, and personal transportation. Lead is not used in jet fuel, the fuel utilized by most commercial aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. The average PHEVLER would use more than 90% electric fuel and less than 10% liquid fuel to serve the annual transportation needs of a typical driver. [

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

The Group intends independently to provide the resources necessary to address the future topic of autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. We will need 150 gigawatt hours of battery capacity by 2025 for our own e-fleet alone— which would make for a massive procurement volume. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. It is much more than that. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Our cars are engineered to be some of the safest in the world and we take real-world data from our fleet, and our ability to push over-the-air updates to optimize safety for all our vehicle models. vehicle fleet of one accident per 670,000 miles driven. Autonomous taxi? The Tesla fleet is really becoming very substantial.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Building Computing Energy Gadgets Investing Smart Grid Transportation Travel ADVERTISEMENT Books that Matter Know Your Eco-Labels Hurray for the Bad Economy! Transportation | Comment | RATE IT Please Vote Good Bad Excellent Know Your Eco-Labels Hurray for the Bad Economy! I have never been a big fan of battery swapping.

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