Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Listen to what happens when the Nissan Leaf roadshow reaches Seattle. Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s Director of Product Planning, says Seattle is part of a DOE project to place 2,500 charging stations to the Puget Sound region this summer. Read more about it in: Nissan Plans Leaf with Complete Charging Infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This significant increase in emissions comes in part from “deadheading”—the miles a driver travels waiting for a ride request or picking up a passenger. Car and ride-hailing emissions are per trip-mile, regardless of how many people are in the vehicle on the same trip, but emissions are adjusted for pooled trips.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

XL Hybrids retrofitted Ford E-450 ambulances with a goal of increasing miles driven per gallon for the fire department and reducing carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. Reducing fleet emissions is a key goal for the city as outlined in Mayor Ed Murray’s Drive Clean Seattle Initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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JULY 1, 2019

Greenhouse gas emissions were examined for 17 nonstop flights with round-trip distances ranging from 131 miles to 19,040 miles. airline (San Francisco to Santa Rosa); the longest flight within the continental United States (Seattle to Miami); and the longest flight in the world (New York to Singapore). pounds per passenger mile.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2020

The plane, a modified Cessna Caravan that normally seats nine people, was the product of two Seattle-area aviation companies, according to The. The world's largest commercial electric airplane took to the skies, flying for 30 minutes over Moses Lake, Washington.

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National Green Transportation

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Conventional wisdom might say a Nissan Leaf would not be able to rack up 100,000 miles in under three years. However a Seattle man, Steve Marsh, was recognized on Monday by Washington State Governor Jay Inslee for doing.'

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 5, 2024

A young man in Seattle, Miles Hudson, owns a Hellcat with a tiger-stripe wrap. Apparently, Hudson is the type of person who will post a video of himself driving over 100 miles per hour on city streets while running an errand. Until recently, when the sounds of Seattle silence were shattered once again.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

However, for motorists whose daily vehicle miles traveled (DVMT) is significant, HEVs may be even a better choice than PHEV40s, particularly in areas that lack a public charging infrastructure. In other words, with low charging coverage, a PHEV40 is more costly than an HEV if one’s DVMT is large.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Operating 12 routes between hubs such as Seattle and Vancouver and across the Pacific Northwest, Harbour Air welcomes more than 500,000 passengers on 30,000 commercial flights each year. globally, all while providing few low-cost, fuel-efficient options for passenger flights under 1,000 miles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 1, 2024

My wife Becky and I received our AWD (2 engine) Cybertruck on March 29th, 2024, at the Seattle Tesla Service Center. I was excited to see how the Cybertruck compared to my 2016 Model S, which has 116,000 miles on it. continued] The post Tesla Cybertruck Review — 3,000 Miles in 10 Days appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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APRIL 16, 2021

Nicole Macri (D-Seattle) as HB 1204, the bill is now the first LDV combustion-engine phaseout target to be passed through the legislative process. First introduced in the legislature by Rep.

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JUNE 25, 2020

It is the first of two cross-country routes the network will complete this year, and spans 11 states and more than 2,700 miles to take drivers from Los Angeles to Washington DC. The first cross-country route travels along Interstates 15 and 70, providing high-powered chargers with speeds up to 350kW.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Percent of total miles completed on the Lyft platform in EVs and business-as-usual projection for California, the US leader in EV market share. Last year Lyft launched hundreds of EVs onto the Lyft platform through Express Drive in Seattle, Atlanta, and Denver. Lyft said that the potential benefits to drivers are very significant.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Alaska is also joining the list of top investors for the company, alongside a fellow Seattle-based Amazon Climate Pledge Fund and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures. ZeroAvia will set up a location in the Seattle area to support this initiative. capable of transporting 76 passengers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative , a study commissioned by a collaboration among nine electric utilities and two agencies representing more than two dozen municipal utilities, recommends adding electric vehicle charging for freight haulers and delivery trucks at 50-mile intervals along Interstate 5 and adjoining highways.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Supported by partners, Clean City Coalitions and corporate sponsors, Alliance AutoGas is embarking on a 5300+ mile, 12-city, cross-country road trip—the Alliance AutoGas Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride —with its record-setting propane autogas F-150. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar was the first car-sharing company in the United States to introduce electric vehicles, starting in Boston in 2002, and the first to offer hybrid vehicles through a partnership with Honda in Seattle in 2003. Honda’s 2014 Fit EV, based on the popular five-passenger Fit, is rated at a combined fuel economy of 118 MPGe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Richmond, Va.;

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AUGUST 2, 2016

Valeo’s Cruise4U partially automated car, previously demonstrated at CES in Las Vegas in January 2016, set off from San Francisco on a 13,000-mile road trip around the US that is scheduled to conclude back in San Francisco on 15 September. The vehicle will travel both day and night in real traffic conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

Buses equipped with HybriDrive series have travelled more than 300 million miles, prevented more than 280,000 tons of CO 2 emissions and have saved more than 25 million gallons of diesel fuel. Seattle and Houston are taking delivery of HybriDrive-powered buses built by Daimler as will Baltimore City, Md., Atlanta, Ga.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Early aggregate data collected through vehicles tied to MyFord Mobile show nearly 60% of total PHEV miles driven every day are in electric mode, and that there is an improvement in this figure over the first 30 days of vehicle ownership. More daily total miles. 84% of one-way trips are of distances 20 miles or less. Short trips.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

Rounding out the top ten were Newark, Seattle and Atlanta. THINK plans to begin selling the THINK City, which will have a top speed of more than 70 miles per hour and a range of more than 100 miles per full charge, in target US cities beginning this year. —Richard Canny. with US production slated to begin early next year.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 17, 2017

Seattle-based startup Zunum Aero has received funding from Boeing HorizonX and JetBlue Technology Ventures toward making its dream of electrified air travel a reality. Sometimes billed as the Tesla of the airplane industry, Zunum is developing a relatively small regional aircraft with about 700 miles of range.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

ABC Companies, a North American motorcoach seller, announced it has completed a 1,700 mile trip across the Pacific Northwest using a Van Hool CX45E all-electric bus. The electric bus was “Proterra Powered” and traveled from Newark, California to Seattle, Washington and back using only public charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Seattle; and Washington, DC. Range is targeted to be 100 miles (161 km) on a full charge. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Using an existing vehicle platform and assembly line will give Ford the ability to vary production based on demand for the Focus Electric.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Machine-learning algorithms that learn from billions of real and simulated miles driven are key to connected driving experiences. The Volkswagen Automotive Cloud engineering team, based in Seattle, has enabled data to be exchanged between the vehicles and the cloud through Azure edge services.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

While vehicle miles traveled on roads (VMT) went up 0.3%, public transportation use in 2013 increased by 1.1%. Since 1995 public transit ridership is up 37.2%, outpacing population growth, which is up 20.3%, and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), which is up 22.7%. Bus ridership increased by 3.8% Behavior Market Background Urban mobility'

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

155 hours) ranked as the most congested two cities in the US—more than 15 hours per year more than the next most congested cities, Chicago (138 hours) and Seattle (138 hours). 2,161), Seattle ($1,932), Chicago ($1,920) and New York City ($1,859). Boston (164 hours lost due to congestion) and Washington D.C. Wichita, Kan.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen. The average US residential customer pays 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) , which means the cost to drive one mile in an EV is somewhat less than 4 cents. million miles per acre per year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

In the United States, the LEAF is among the top 10 vehicles sold in San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu. Electric cars from Renault and Nissan have driven approximately 841 million kilometers (523 million miles)—enough to circle the earth more than 20,000 times. In Norway, the LEAF is one of the top 10 vehicles sold.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan, Seattle, Auckland and Cape Town have pledged to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025 and ensure that a major area of their city is zero emission by 2030. Lead by example by procuring zero emission vehicles for city fleets.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

million, for installation of approximately 2,500 charging stations in each of five markets: Tennessee, Oregon, San Diego, Seattle and the Phoenix/Tucson region. million to Navistar to develop and deploy 400 battery electric delivery trucks with a 100-mile range. Nissan introduced the LEAF on 2 August.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

the in-service performance of 10 medium-duty Smith Newton electric vehicles (EVs) and 10 comparable conventional diesel vehicles operated by Frito Lay North America in the Seattle, Washington, area. Range is from 40 to 100 miles on a single charge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

The 60-ft coaches hold 120 people and can travel approximately 140 miles on a single charge. The 40-ft coaches hold 76 people on a 220-mile route on a single charge. Based on Seattle City Light’s local territory rates developed in conjunction with Metro, ChargePilot is anticipated to save Metro at least an estimated $9,457.20

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

BYD (Build Your Dreams) will deliver two 8R Class-8 battery-electric refuse trucks, fitted with New Way Viper Rear Loader refuse bodies, to Recology in Seattle, WA for use in residential solid waste pick up. These will be the first electric refuse trucks to operate in the entire Pacific Northwest region.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

Buses equipped with BAE Systems’ HybriDrive series system have travelled more than 300 million miles and transport more than two million passengers a day in cities across the UK and North America that include London, Manchester, Oxford, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Ottawa, Houston, and Seattle.

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