Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Prior to this modification, California utilities were guided by a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decision established in 2010 that exempted light-duty vehicle charging station providers from being regulated as a utility but did not explicitly exempt medium- and heavy-duty charging station providers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

New research from IHS Markit shows that the average age of light vehicles in operation (VIO) in the US has risen to 12.1 The increase in average age will further drive vehicle maintenance opportunities from an increasingly aged vehicle fleet. million according to current forecasts, which can be expected to mute average age growth.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2020

Designed to provide rapid ground mobility, the expeditionary ISV is a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier intended to transport a nine-Soldier infantry squad moving throughout the battlefield. The approved Army Acquisition Objective is 2,065 vehicles. Duramax turbo-diesel engine, and six-speed automatic transmission.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The truck is expected to have significantly reduced maintenance and fuel costs compared with a similarly equipped internal combustion unit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

To help Albertsons maximize vehicle uptime, TEC Equipment, Volvo Trucks’ largest West Coast dealership and a Volvo LIGHTS project partner, will provide contracted maintenance and repairs through the premier Volvo Gold Contract service offering at its location in Fontana, California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The backhoe loader is perfectly suited for electrification as the varied use cycles, from heavy to light work, provide an excellent opportunity to convert wasted diesel engine hours into zero consumption battery time—yet provide the operator with instantaneous torque response when needed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Deployed as part of the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project, the Volvo VNR Electric trucks will operate in a pilot project through the end of 2021 to demonstrate the ability for battery-electric trucks to successfully transport goods in DHE’s daily routes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

King County Metro earlier this year became the first transit agency in North America to install a high-powered charging station at a base facility where recharging is combined with cleaning and maintenance. Short-range buses at Metro’s Bellevue Base can now fully recharge in much less time, which has made operations more efficient.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

This project will complete key engineering design and demonstration tests to enable cost-competitive, carbon-neutral production of synthetic jet fuel and diesel using nuclear energy from existing light water reactors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the past decade, researchers predicted that cheap ubiquitous mobile sensors would revolutionize infrastructure maintenance; yet extracting useful information in the field with sufficient precision remains challenging. The red circles represent the centers of each segment, while the light colored boxes show the segment widths.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

HYVIA will offer a wide range of fuel cell-powered light commercial vehicles by the end of 2021: Master Van H2-TECH —a large van for transporting goods and packages, with 12 m 3 of cargo volume and a range of up to 500 km. A range of financing options and maintenance services will also be offered.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2021

The carbon-reinforced belt system will never rust and requires little to no maintenance. Bright LED lights are integrated at the front, the rear, within the MODMO proprietary handlebar ends and seatpost ensuring that the rider is clearly visible at night to both ongoing and backside traffic.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

These are the first light-duty electric trucks to be made available in Penske’s rental and leasing fleet, as previously announced. Product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2022

The two companies seek to bridge the gaps in the global standardization of wireless charging for electric passenger and light duty commercial vehicles, to enable interoperability between vehicles and infrastructure, as well as support market penetration.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide Essential Tools and Tips to Get You Started This article may contain affiliate links. Hybrids and electrics need maintenance, too Electric and hybrid vehicles are not just a trend; they’re the future of automotive technology. It pays to know how to make some changes and repairs.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

At the time, about a decade ago, I was helping to refine a system for fabricating chips using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. To produce EUV light, we would focus an intense laser pulse onto 30-micrometer-wide droplets of tin flying through a chamber filled with low-density hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2018

In addition to lower emissions that benefit air quality, electric buses offer savings in fuel costs and maintenance costs. The two electric buses currently in operation have saved CTA more than $24,000 annually in fuel costs, and $30,000 annually in maintenance costs, when compared to diesel buses purchased in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

Symbio currently has several hundred converted Renault Kangoo ZE Maxi light electric commercial vehicles equipped with a 22 kWh battery pack and 5 kW hydrogen fuel range extender with 2.08 o Its digital platform enables customer-specific services and reduces maintenance costs. kg H2 at 700 bar in service in Europe. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2018

The aging of US household vehicles was reported across all light-duty vehicle types, in particular for pickup trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles. years for other light trucks to a high of 2.4 By comparison, the average age of in-use cars increased, in absolute terms, from 9.5 years in 2009 to 10.3 years in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

The truck will be unique on US roads when Con Edison takes possession early next year, running entirely on electricity as it lifts lineworkers and equipment as high as 60 feet for construction, maintenance and repair work. As of last year, every new light-duty vehicle that Con Edison buys is a plug-in hybrid or all-electric.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

ComEd’s new fleet electrification plan calls for replacing all of its light duty vehicles with electrified vehicles (EVs and PHEVs) by 2030. ComEd will replace end-of-life internal combustion vehicles with plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles, reducing fuel and maintenance costs and creating savings that will be passed on to customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Series-EV system uses fewer, lighter, and more compact components to make it easy to install and reduce the need for future maintenance. The system’s light weight and reduced number of connections help to make the most of its power and paves the way for buses to travel longer distances on a single charge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2022

The mobility technology company is highlighting EtelligentForce, a battery electric 4WD powertrain system for pickup trucks and light commercial vehicles paired with Magna eBeam technology ( earlier post ). These benefits help automakers simplify the transition toward electrification of these vehicle segments.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Currently-available engines are designed for gasoline, aviation gasoline (or Avgas) and other “light” fuels which necessitate a second fuel supply chain for the US military, with the associated extra costs and risks to personnel. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 8, 2025

For truck operators, this could involve various factors such as distracted driving, speeding, violation of traffic laws or inadequate vehicle maintenance. For example, if an electric truck’s brakes fail in an accident, investigations would examine whether the failure was due to negligent maintenance or a manufacturing defect.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

The team also developed synthetic depot charging load profiles for heavy-duty trucks from real-world operating schedules, and found that charging requirements are met at common light-duty EV charging rates (?100?kW This study shows that charging requirements could be met at power levels in line with current light-duty charging technology (?100

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2023

UK-based energy firm SSE is the first UK utility to trial First Hydrogen ’s hydrogen-powered van in a real-life setting, enabling SSE to evaluate the benefits of hydrogen mobility alongside its growing fleet of EV engineering and maintenance vehicles as an alternative to fossil fuels. First Hydrogen Corp.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

By shifting the biggest gasoline users into ZEVs first, AB 2816 also reduces the total number of ZEVs that would be needed to reach the state’s near-term target of cutting light-duty vehicle emissions in half by 2030. Light duty vehicles cause 28% of California’s total carbon emissions and pollute the air near freeways and busy roads.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2019

The fully-electric Cummins PowerDrive equipped vans are expected to reduce fuel and maintenance costs as well as eliminate emissions. In March, Cummins began delivering eight Cummins-powered all-electric vehicles to the United States Postal Service (USPS) in California.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

These stations, intended to be operational between Q4 2023 and Q2 2024, cover fueling stations for light-duty, heavy-duty, and transit fuel cell vehicles that need H35 and H70 dispensing. Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (CE&IG), a part of the Nikkiso Co., The purchase orders have a combined value of almost US$60 million.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

They also used ambient data are from roadside/tunnel measurements in the US, EU and Asia for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles, and data from Indian in-use 2S autorickshaws for comparison to the European scooters of this study. Data on the other vehicles shown are from the literature for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles (LDVs and HDVs).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

While EVs already provide customers with cleaner air and reduced maintenance costs, among other benefits, testing emerging technologies to optimize EV integration with the electric grid could provide further value to all PG&E customers. —PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

In mid-May, the modules will be transported to Niagara Falls and lowered onto the Maid of the Mist dry dock and maintenance facility for assembly. The Maid of the Mist Corporation agreed to invest $32 million in the former Schoellkopf Power Station site near the falls to make it suitable for the winter storage and maintenance of its boats.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

At the same time as the buses go into operation, the final bus stops on the inner-city bus routes will all be equipped with the necessary charging infrastructure and both bus depots will be converted to accommodate the charging and maintenance processes for the electric buses, also by 2023.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 20, 2024

Electric vehicles don’t require the same routine maintenance that gas models do, but they’re not completely repair-free. That policy has led owners to seek class-action status against the company, and a California judge recently gave the group the green light to move forward with a suit. Tesla generated $8.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The Cummins driveline solution eliminates need for a transmission on a terminal tractor, simplifying the overall system and reducing maintenance needs. Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has selected Cummins to be the electrification solution provider for the next-generation electric terminal tractor offering for the European market.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

IVECO will provide the essential maintenance and service functions. This will be followed by the delivery of the remaining 70 vehicles in 2025, with the possibility for GP JOULE to acquire them through GATE—Green & Advanced Transport Ecosystem, Iveco Group’s all-inclusive electric truck rental model.

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