Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Oakland(California) Board of Port Commissioners last week adopted a strict truck ban effective 1 January 2010, barring drayage trucks with engine year models earlier than 1994 at the Oakland seaport. The Port of Oakland ordinance that includes the drayage truck ban will go through a second reading scheduled for 20 October 2009.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The City of Oakland, California has begun filling up its vehicles with Neste’s NEXBTL renewable diesel in order to reduce the emissions of their municipal fleet. Oakland is the first major US city to convert their entire fleet to renewable diesel.

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Electrek

MAY 15, 2024

An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. The violations were discovered during routine audits of the company’s 2017 and 2018 vessel fleet visits to the Port of Oakland.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2009

The San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced a new $2 million federal grant to supplement the $20 million in state and local funds to install diesel exhaust filters and replace old trucks to reduce particulate emissions at the Port of Oakland.

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Electrek

AUGUST 19, 2024

An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Routinely used by owners to help solve everything from vandalism cases to finding fugitives on the run for months , Sentry Mode is now being used and employed by the Oakland, California, Police Department. A Model X was parked in Oakland at a beauty supply shop when five people started firing at each other.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Tesla’s Sentry Mode features that record what is happening around the electric cars have often been used to help solve crimes, but Oakland Police is going a step further.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Diesel PM emissions from trucks serving the Port of Oakland, California declined 98% between 2005 and 2015, according to an emissions inventory released by the Port. The Port said that an analysis of the 2015 Emissions Inventory shows a 76% decrease in total diesel emissions at the Oakland Seaport. tons in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2015

demonstrates that mandatory upgrades to diesel truck fleets serving the Port of Oakland are responsible for significant reductions in two major air pollutants. A study funded by the California Air Resources Board and conducted by UC Berkeley scientist Dr. Robert Harley.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

During the next 18 months, the project will deploy high-powered chargers at several existing Volvo Trucks’ dealership locations in Central and Northern California, including TEC Equipment Oakland, TEC Equipment Dixon, Western Truck Center in Stockton, and Affinity Truck Centers in Fresno and Bakersfield.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Through the project, also known as Zero-Emission Regional Truck Operations with Fuel Cell Electric Truck, Hyundai Motor will deploy 30 Class 8 6x4 XCIENT Fuel Cell heavy-duty tractors at the Port of Oakland, Calif., Our ultimate goal is to fight climate change and build a sustainable future. We are running out of time to limit global warming.

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Electrek

AUGUST 19, 2024

On today’s episode of Quick Charge , Elon Musk has a lot of fans in the Russian war criminal demographic, Unplugged Performance wants to sell you an idea, CASE debuts an all-electric backhoe, and the city of Oakland converts 100% of its school bus fleet to electric.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

As a result, Argent has offset more than 97 million pounds of carbon from the atmosphere and removed a half-million pounds of trash from the streets of Oakland, California. Now, Argent has switched its fleet from petroleum diesel to Neste MY Renewable Diesel.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The electric buses used in Oakland were purchased from New Flyer and are […]. The California Energy Commission has funded a first of its kind vehicle to building (V2B) project that will allow the batteries of electric buses to provide backup power to community buildings so they can provide a safe place for residents during emergencies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

The Oakland Unified School District Project 2019 – 2023: This project proposes to install and maintain high-performance air filtration systems in schools located in communities impacted by air pollution within Oakland Unified School District.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. GEKOT will integrate its technical solutions package into Razor electric scooters soon to be deployed on the campus of Oakland University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

The public agencies receiving vehicles are: Alameda County, Sonoma County, San Francisco, Concord, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Oakland, Fremont, the Marin Municipal Water District, and Sonoma County Water Agency. The Transportation Authority of Marin also participated with additional support for the Marin Municipal Water District.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The cities of Oakland and San Jose, county governments in the Bay Area and other public and private stakeholders are participants in the regional EV Corridor program. In November 2008, Newsom, San Jose Mayor Chuck Read and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums pledged to make the Bay Area the “EV Capital of the US”.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 21, 2023

Tesla sponsored a sustainability project for the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California. On January 15, Allen Temple held a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new energy storage project at its Family Life Center in Oakland, California. Proud of this @tesla partnership with @allentemplebc in Oakland.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Linde received funding for two of the stations—in Oakland and San Ramon, California—to go along with the five previous station awards Linde has received. Linde has also built and is operating two hydrogen fueling stations for California’s AC Transit to fuel 12 hydrogen fuel cell buses in Emeryville and Oakland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Linde has contracted with Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) in California to supply the ionic compression hydrogen fueling technology ( earlier post ) and the hydrogen for two new refueling stations, which will be located at AC Transit's Emeryville and Oakland operating divisions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Fort Myers, FL; Indianapolis, IN; Ithaca, NY; New York, NY; Oakland, CA; Olympia, WA; San Diego, CA; and Tampa, FL). Some public transit systems throughout all the areas of the United States reported record ridership for the first quarter. in the first quarter of 2012. percent nationally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

Based in Oakland, AC Transit is one of the largest bus-only systems in America, serving Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the San Francisco Bay Area’s East Bay, delivering more than 52 million rides annually.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The 10-year initiative includes an expected $350 million to purchase approximately 8,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles over a five-year period, including the 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle, a CNG van deployed in Oakland, California. This represents the largest initiative to CNG to date by a US company.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2023

Pyka, headquartered in Oakland, California, is expanding manufacturing of zero-emission autonomous aircraft and providing additional zero-emission aviation careers. The California Competes Tax Credit is an income tax credit for businesses that locate or grow in California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Berkeley, and Oakland. The fuel will be sold at the same price as conventional diesel fuels and will be available exclusively at Propel’s Clean Fuel Points in Redwood City, San Jose (N. Solazyme’s technology platform converts plant sugars into oils by feeding the sugars to microalgae in standard industrial fermentation equipment.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Last year , Tesla Superchargers in Houston, Oakland, and other large cities were routinely targeted by these thieves in an effort to obtain the copper from the cables. As previously mentioned, they also contain metals that can be scrapped for fast cash, which makes them a prime target for those who are short on money.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

The Seattle-based company received a notice of violation for failing to repower, retire or retrofit its cargo-handling equipment at the ports of Long Beach and Oakland, and for failing to certify large spark ignition engines on yard trucks servicing those terminals, as required by state law. million settlement with SSA Containers, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

TEC of California (Oakland, La Mirada and Fontana) is awarded $1,280,000 in incentives to help buy-down 40 heavy-duty natural gas-powered trucks in the 26,001 pounds and greater gross vehicle weight range. Oakland) is awarded a total of $380,000 in incentives for 25 vehicles manufactured by Tiffany Coachworks, Perris, California.

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Electrek

APRIL 27, 2024

FirstElement Fuels has opened the world’s first large-scale hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty commercial trucks just outside the Port of Oakland.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

AC Transit is the transit bus operator for 13 cities in the East Bay Area, including Emeryville, Oakland and Berkeley, and also operates trans-bay service to San Francisco. The second, located at the Oakland operating division, is expected to begin operating in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

A PureMotion Model 120 fuel cell powerplant aboard an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) bus operating in the Greater Oakland, California, area has surpassed 7,000 hours in service with the original cell stacks and no cell replacements, and another has exceeded 6,000 hours. UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

In California alone, New Flyer has sold nearly 80 battery-electric buses, with active programs in Coachella Valley, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orange County, and San Diego. New Flyer currently has significant ZEB orders from major cities including Toronto, Boston, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, and Vancouver.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

The pilot program, which marked the first commercial availability of algal derived fuels, offered SoladieselBD in a B20 blend to consumers through Propel’s Clean Fuel Points in Redwood City, San Jose, Berkeley, and Oakland, California.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Port of Oakland. The California Air Resources Board announced that COSCO Container Lines Co., has paid $965,000 in penalties for violating the Ocean-Going At-Berth Regulation.

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