Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

BYD offers the widest range of battery-electric bus and coach models in the United States, ranging from 23-foot motor coaches on up to the 60-foot K11M and 45-foot double-decker C10MS. The electric bus is equipped with an up to 435kWh LFP battery and can be fully charged within 3 hours.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As part of the partnership, Hyundai will provide the DOE with five NEXO fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) for use in various regions of the country including Washington, DC, to help advance research and development of fuel cell technologies. Hyundai provided its first NEXO SUV to the DOE in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The SOLO has a range of 100 miles and a top speed of 80 mph, making it safe for highways. ElectraMeccanica has a retail footprint in five western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. The SOLO is a purpose-built, three-wheeled, all-electric solution for the urban environment.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2021

General Motors is betting lithium-metal battery chemistry will increase range and lower costs for future electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

4 electric SUV 1st Edition and Pro models officially have an EPA-estimated 250 miles of range on a single charge. The Volkswagen 2021 ID.4 The EPA-estimated fuel economy for city driving is 104 MPGe; highway driving is rated at 89 MPGe, and combined city/highway at 97 MPGe. The first models to be launched—ID.4 4 1st Edition and ID.4

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 10, 2022

An editorial writer and columnist for the Washington Post wrote a screed attacking electric cars this week. His heavily slanted piece was filled with misinformation. Here's the truth about driving an electric car in winter.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

The partners are planning the installation of as many as 60 DC fast chargers at up to 15 Starbucks locations along a 1,350 mile route between the Colorado front range and the Starbucks Support Center (headquarters) in Seattle.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

These incentives are in addition to a federal (nationwide) tax credit, which ranges from $2,500 to $7,500 depending on battery capacity and gross vehicle weight. Washington has exempted EVs from the state''s 6.5% While PHEV ownership is higher than that of EVs for the United States, the reverse is true in Washington.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

Link Transit of Wenatchee, Washington has achieved 50 megawatt-hours of energy delivered wirelessly to its electric bus fleet. A significant benefit of opportunity charging is that vehicles can stay in-service without driving range restrictions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The buses each have a range of 125 miles and will eliminate on average 230 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. Lion’s vehicles are distributed and serviced through the company’s network of Experience Centers, including two locations in California along with facilities in New York, Washington, Florida and Arizona.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Researchers at Washington State University report microwave-induced pyrolysis of low-density polyethylene (a model of waste plastics) using ZSM-5 as a catalyst to generate significant amounts (74.73–88.49%) 88.49%) of gasoline-range hydrocarbons. coke deposition on ZSM-5 unde most conditions. 2014.12.013.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

The companies, ranging from popular grocery store chains to retail shopping centers, will help expand the availability of electric vehicle DC fast charging for customers who drive or are considering purchasing an EV. More than 20 of the new charging sites will be located in California.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2015

A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

This major development enables Mercedes-Benz to store more energy within the same space, thus increasing range of its future vehicles by a significant amount. Both companies are targeting mid-decade for a range-extended-version of the electric G-Class to be equipped with the new battery technology option.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

At introduction, the Polestar 2 will feature a 300 kW long-range dual motor with a 78 kWh battery pack (in 27 modules). Torque is 487 ft-lb (660 N·m), and the target range is 275 miles. Polestar unveiled the car, which is positioned to take on the Tesla Model 3, in February 2019. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2021

Following the completion of the current pilot program, Helbiz plans to deploy Lightning Electric Ford Transit 350HD vans throughout Miami and Washington DC to manage its intra-urban operations. Micro-mobility company Helbiz is exploring the electrification of its fleet with Lightning eMotors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Of the 20 dealers in the region, 12 will be located in Washington and eight in Oregon. The Soul EV earned an EPA-estimated range rating of 93 miles (150 km) when the 27 kWh, 360 V, 192-cell lithium-ion polymer battery is fully charged. The 2016 Soul EV is Kia’s first all-electric car to be sold in the US.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2021

In February 2021, a Liquid Hydrogen (LH 2 ) flight tank designed for the ScanEagle3 UAV successfully completed liquid hydrogen fill, pressure and vapor generation testing at Washington State University’s Hydrogen Properties for Energy Research (HyPER) Lab. —Andrew Duggan, Managing Director Insitu Pacific.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

Blue Bird electric buses are already operating in California, North Dakota and Washington. Over the next three years, Cummins is investing $500 million in electrification to bring dependable, high quality, fully electric and hybrid solutions to market across a wide range of applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

King County Metro, the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle, will soon begin testing long-range battery-powered buses that can travel more than 140 miles on a single charge, the latest milestone toward a zero-emission fleet.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Nissan plans to triple the current electric vehicle quick-charging infrastructure in the United States with the addition of at least 500 quick-charging stations in the next 18 months, including the greater Washington DC area’s first fast-charge network. Nissan outlined the strategy at the Washington Auto Show. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Our new Washington state plant builds on that momentum offering the manufacturing capacity to meet the needs of our auto partners on their way to a fully electric future. We’ve been working towards automotive quality standards and scale since our start to ensure longer range, faster charge times, and lower battery cost.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

At a Washington Post Live virtual conference, General Motors President Mark Reuss provided more details about GM’s next-generation Ultium lithium metal battery and announced a joint development agreement with lithium metal battery innovator SES (formerly known as SolidEnergy Systems) ( earlier post ). —Mark Reuss.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Group14, along with its project partners, was selected for its novel approach designed to deliver cost-effective, application-specific performance range across diverse markets including electric vehicles, consumer electronics, medical devices and aerospace.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

The agreement with Mexico follows similar agreements signed by California in 2013 with the governments of British Columbia and the states of Oregon and Washington and China’s National Development and Reform Commission—the first agreement of its kind on climate change between the commission and a subnational entity.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

has shipped the first production ProGen fuel cell systems for use as range extenders in electric delivery vehicles. The first deliveries of production ProGen engines will function as range extenders in electric FedEx Freight delivery vans in the greater Los Angeles area, doubling the vehicles’ range. Plug Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a novel pathway to produce jet fuel range paraffins (alkanes) and aromatics by catalytic microwave-induced pyrolysis of intact biomass (Douglas fir) integrated with the catalytic hydrotreating upgrading process. A paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The signatories are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia. Reductions ranged from 1%-53% for NO x , 3%-23% for PM 2.5 , and 1%-55% for well-to-wheels CO 2 e.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Under the contract, New Flyer can provide a wide range of products on its proven Xcelsior platform, including thirty-five-foot and forty-foot buses offered in electric, low-emission diesel-electric hybrid, low-emission compressed natural gas (CNG), and clean diesel propulsions. —Chris Stoddart, President, New Flyer. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2019

The buses range in size from the 30-foot BYD K7M to the articulated 60-foot K11M. The variety of BYD buses will allow ATN to efficiently service a range of routes in the Anaheim Resort. One-half of the order will be the popular 40-foot BYD K9M.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 3, 2024

By electricity cost vs. gas prices, there's a vast range among states EVs have the strongest advantage in Idaho, Washington, and the Northwest Fluctuating gas prices can make internal-combustion vehicles cost up to six times more to drive than EVs, but the potential savings can vary in different.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2020

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. We identify an optimal flow regime range, broadly applicable to other liquid-fed fuel cells, in terms of the standard dimensionless Reynolds number (Re) and the Damkohler number (Da). DBFCs fulfilling these criteria provide a 2.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The report found that 56 million scrap tires remain in stockpiles, mostly in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia and Washington, half of which—New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia—do not have active stockpile cleanup programs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Now, researchers from the University of Nevada and Washington State University have developed a novel efficient biphasic tandem catalytic process (biTCP) for synthesizing cycloalkanes from renewable terpenoid biomass (such as 1,8-cineole). 1,8-cineole is readily converted to p-menthane, which is a C 10 cycloalkane in the jet fuel range.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a novel route for the production of jet fuel range alkanes at high carbon yields from plastics. The process combines catalytic microwave-assisted degradation of low-density polyethylene (a model compound of plastics waste) followed by hydrogenation. 2016.10.015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

Seventeen countries have already announced plans to phase out sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles, with start dates ranging from 2025 to 2040. The Washington bill, drafted according to the legal path identified in the law review article, required all new cars to be electric by 2030.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

After Tesla adjusted delivery timelines for the new Model 3 to February through March earlier this month, the automaker has now pushed estimated deliveries back a little further for the Long Range variant. The Long Range starts at a price of $45,990, while the base-level RWD trim is priced at $38,990.

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