Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

New York City Transit (NYCT), part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”), has awarded New Flyer with a contract for 15 low floor sixty-foot Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, heavy-duty transit buses (or a total of 30 equivalent units or “EUs”).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2020

The Capital District Transportation Authority’s (CDTA)i in Albany, New York, is rolling out four electric buses to test the technology and charging infrastructure. CDTA will put the electric buses it purchased from New Flyer of America into service as part of a pilot program. Approximately $1.4 CDTA is using $1.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

XL recently completed a successful pilot deployment of school buses with Careful Bus Company in New York City outfitted with the XL hybrid system. The XLH system uses regenerative braking during deceleration and electric assist during acceleration to increase fuel economy.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This can be seen in recent photos of the self-driving vehicle, which was recently brought to Giga New York. Images shared in social media show that Tesla has brought a Cybercab to Gigafactory New York. The Cybercab is now on display inside Giga New York. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 27, 2024

Tesla has spent $18 million to expand its Supercharging presence in New York City as it acquired a lot in the borough of Queens on August 16. Perhaps one of the most difficult parts of being an electric vehicle owner in New York City is the fact that charging is in short supply, leading to a problematic ownership experience.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2020

New York’s State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that more than $24 million is now available to replace diesel-powered transit buses with new all-electric transit buses. As part of the state’s $127.7-million

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

New York State announced a series of broad-scale initiatives to encourage the purchase and to increase the convenience and accessibility of electric vehicles (EV). EVolve NY will target four 150 kW chargers per location at average intervals of less than 75 miles along New York’s major corridors.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2020

With these new buses, Twin Rivers is now operating the largest zero-emission school bus fleet in North America, with 40 all-electric school buses in its fleet. The 10 LionC buses are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The first vehicle now serves routes in Fresno with the balance of the vehicles to be deployed in Fresno and Stockton as part of a year-long program. The USPS has a long history of testing electric vehicles for city delivery; the first known test of an electric vehicle for mail collection was in Buffalo, New York on 2 July 1899.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to recent investments in Fridley, Cummins is investing more than $1 billion across its US engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and New York. The X15N is part of the new fuel-agnostic 15-liter engine platform produced at JEP.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

If this initiative is successful, the bucket truck will be integrated as part of Con Edison’s fleet of trucks that maintains the overhead electric system in New York City and Westchester County, N.Y. Delivery of the vehicle in early 2022 will be followed by its use in a pilot program.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $918 million in four US manufacturing sites, including $854 million to prepare these facilities to produce the company’s sixth-generation Small Block V-8 engine and an additional $64 million in Rochester, New York and Defiance, Ohio for castings and components to support EV production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Electric buses also have fewer parts to maintain, which helps the district see immediate savings on maintenance costs. The usual concern with deciding to introduce electric in a new area is the climate—will it work in cold weather? — Mark Terry, chief commercial officer for Blue Bird.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Source: “Europe’s giant ‘taxi’ company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?”. But the reality is that Uber is part of the traffic and pollution problem, adding car trips in our cities and adding to the climate and pollution crisis. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

labor board has thrown out a complaint alleging that Tesla fired dozens of workers over unionizing efforts at its Gigafactory in New York. The post Tesla cleared of claim that it fired Giga New York employees for unionizing appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Described in a paper in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , the modeling approach has low data requirements and is computationally efficient. Previous methods to gauge air pollution were cumbersome and reliant on extraordinary amounts of data points. Salil Desai, Mohammad Tayarani, H. 2022.103505.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The BMW i Ventures investment is part of a $100-million capital raise that includes other new investors Telstra Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund. BMW i Ventures announced an investment in Trifacta , a leader in data wrangling.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 1, 2024

Last week in New York, I sat down with Brian Moody, the executive editor at AutoTrader , to discuss what was going in Manhattan at the 2024 New York Auto Show.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 7, 2023

On Thursday, New York City officials announced a plan that would require drivers to pay $15 (on average) to enter Manhattan. The scheme is similar to the “congestion charging” that takes place in some of Europe’s largest cities and would make New York the first American locale to enact the concept. per trip downtown.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We are excited to be rapidly growing our presence in Australia and New Zealand and look forward to playing our part in the global decarbonization story. The Phase 2 expansion will increase the network to at least 24 stations by 2025, providing coverage for 95% of all heavy vehicle routes throughout New Zealand. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), part of Daimler Trucks, celebrated the global launch of the FUSO eCanter ( earlier post ) in New York City. FUSO also announced the company’s first US commercial partner for the eCanter: UPS will place three of the new electric trucks into its fleet.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 27, 2024

NEW YORK -- Hyundai kicked off the 2024 New York International Auto Show by dropping the new Tucson and a refreshed Santa Cruz minitruck. As part of the refresh, the dash gets redesigned to have a curving layout that sweeps the gauge cluster into the infotainment screen.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that $5 million is available as part of the first rebate designed specifically for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at workplaces, office buildings, multi-family apartment buildings, and public locations such as theaters, malls, parks and retail locations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This round of funding will be administered by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) through the New York State Grants Gateway and includes the following: Clean Vehicle Rebates: $500,000. Plug-in hybrid, all-electric, or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles with a 10- to 50-mile electric range are eligible for rebates of $2,500.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Phoenix, New York and Boston in February. The partnership is part of Uber’s continued commitment to becoming a zero-emission platform in the US and Canada by 2030. Additionally, the two companies are actively discussing a potential global roll-out program beginning in Europe and Canada. The Midwest and Southeast in March.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The company has begun construction on green hydrogen production facilities in California, New York, Tennessee and Georgia that will ultimately supply 500 tons per day of liquid green hydrogen by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This move is part of the City’s efforts to phase out its use of regular diesel. The emissions reductions achieved during this period is equal to removing trucks driving three million miles on New York City’s streets. The fuel reduces CO 2 emissions by 65% compared to the petroleum-based version.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

Funded in part by a $5-million zero-emissions grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the electric buses replace the aging compressed natural gas bus fleet that has been operating at SJC since 2008. SJC’s deployment is a first for a California airport and among the largest deployments for a US airport.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

According to the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand, the number of companies that are part of Thailand’s electric vehicle industry has risen significantly since 2015, from 76 to 420 in 2019. —Vorawan Norasucha, Director of the New York office of the Thailand Board of Investment. million units in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2018

LightningAnalytics, a new cloud-based analytics system that provides drive, route and predictive vehicle health scoring for maximum range and efficiency, is available as an option with every Lightning Systems vehicle. LightningElectric is available for the Ford Transit as part of Ford’s eQVM program.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Upon closing, the combined company will be named XL Fleet and is expected to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange under a new ticker symbol, “XL”, with an anticipated implied enterprise value of approximately $1 billion and no material debt expected to be outstanding.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

Combining the refuse industry-leading design of the Mack LR model with a fully electric Mack drivetrain, the demonstration model will begin real-world testing in 2020 in the demanding operations of the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY). Mack Trucks is part of the Volvo Group.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2021

With the capabilities provided by EV Connect as part of our lab and onsite infrastructure, the BIC will be able to validate from the battery pack through to the fully installed systems in the vehicle. —Tim O’Hara, managing director, ESN. Globally, EV Connect’s reach extends across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2022

and will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the new ticker symbol, “EVEX” and “EVEXW.”. Eve UAM, the urban air mobility (UAM) business created by Embraer and established as an independent company in October 2020, has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Zanite Acquisition Corp., Embraer S.A.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Existing New York-based investor, Luxor Capital Group, LP, led this funding round, while Stockholm-based initial seed investor and co-lead, Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström, extended its holding. Volta Trucks announced the conclusion of a successful Series C funding round of €230 million. Volta Trucks looks to eliminate around 1.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2020

XL Fleet customers can now purchase XL Grid charging systems separately or as part of an order for vehicles with the company’s electrified powertrain. and is expected to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange under a new ticker symbol, “XL”. Upon closing, the combined company will be named XL Fleet Corp.

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