Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The $787-billion stimulus bill (HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that emerged from the joint House-Senate conference committee this week provides funds for a large range of transportation-related projects. 400 million for Transportation Electrification, instead of $200 million as proposed in the House bill.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Communities and utilities receiving the new technology were partially funded under the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program jointly administered through the Wisconsin State Energy Office and the US Department of Energy Wisconsin Clean Cities Program. The Terex Commander 4042 digger derrick features a DUECO, Inc. ComEd received a $1.5

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AUGUST 28, 2009

The German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS) will provide funding for Daimler Buses to develop, evaluate, and test the first small fleet of Mercedes-Benz Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid articulated buses ( earlier post ). The Citaro G BlueTec Hybrid is a series diesel-hybrid city bus able to run solely on electric power.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The FOA modifies a much smaller and earlier-issued FOA by incorporating a supplemental $300 million appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (the stimulus bill) for the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) of 2005 Section 721 to fund a competitive grant pilot program to be administered through the Clean Cities Program.

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MARCH 3, 2021

In March 2020, the IEA urged governments to put clean energy at the heart of their economic stimulus plans to ensure a sustainable recovery. Most of this—around 1 billion tonnes, which is more than the annual emissions of Japan—was due to lower use of oil for road transport and aviation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

Bright Automotive, as a partner in the Energy Systems Network (ESN) Project Plug-IN, has also applied for approximately $17 million through the Transportation Electrification Program (FOA DE-FOA-0000028) to develop, deploy, demonstrate, market, and evaluate plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2010

Azure Dynamics Corporation announced the sale of 24 Balance Hybrid Electric buses to King County, Washington for its Access Transportation services. Under a competitive bid process the contract was awarded to EK Coaches, the dealership of record, for the Azure Balance Hybrid Electric drivetrain on a Ford E450 chassis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected both consumer and commercial transportation, but global oil demand will probably continue to grow through 2030, according to a new study. Source: “Will Covid Drive An Early Peak In Transportation Activity And Oil Demand?”. Lines represent global oil demand by study scenario.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2009

Transportation Electrification (DE-FOA-0000028) (DOE): $50.3 In addition to the award from the DOE, Enova said it has recently submitted applications totaling more than $82 million for the following: Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (“ATVM”) Loan Program (DOE): $13.2 million.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), along with charging station partner AeroVironment and the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), opened the first phase of the West Coast Electric Highway, which is anticipated to eventually stretch along Interstate 5 from the Canadian to Mexican borders. Earlier post.).

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MAY 10, 2021

For decades, both companies have been importing coal, iron ore and other raw materials via their own terminal in Rotterdam, using inland barges as well as rail to transport it to their blast furnaces in Duisburg.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

The Federal Research Ministry will provide up to 40 million euros in funding from the economic stimulus package for cooperation within the framework of this partnership. test schemes for green hydrogen production in Namibia and for hydrogen transport. Namibia has enormous potential for scaling up a green hydrogen industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

The State of Kentucky, under direction of its Office of Transportation Delivery, is one of the first states to receive Federal Transit Administration (FTA) stimulus money aimed at providing fuel efficient and environmentally friendly transportation solutions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Owing to limits in battery capacity and driving range (currently 100-200 km (62-124 miles) for a medium-sized car) and a current recharging time of several hours, BEVs are ideally suited to smaller cars and shorter trips, i.e. urban driving (including new transportation models such as car sharing). reduction.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Responding to a question from a city councilwoman about transportation and infrastructure in the stimulus bill during a town hall forum in Ft. From a transcript provided by Transportation for America: Not only do we need to rebuild our roads, our bridges, our ports, our levies, our damns, but we also have to plan for the future.

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Electrek

MARCH 31, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): C40 mayors, transport workers, and unions call for stimulus funding for public transport. more… The post EGEB: Global megacities call for a ‘green recovery’ for public transport appeared first on Electrek.

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MARCH 24, 2010

The Government of India unveiled a transport stimulus package on 3 February 2009 to provide central funding to purchase buses for urban transport systems. The B Gas Plus and B Gas International engines, powered by compressed natural gas (CNG), are licensed by CWI and manufactured by CIL.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

billion transit stimulus money to states and local communities. The US Department of Transportation has made $48.1 The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) last week beat a 1 September deadline to provide all states and local communities with 50% of their Recovery Act transit formula dollars. FTA has provided nearly 90% of its $7.5

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AUGUST 21, 2014

Furthermore, ABB will incorporate electric vehicles into its company fleet, demonstrating full support for green transportation in China.

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APRIL 26, 2010

The expansion was supported by a $249 million federal stimulus US Department of Energy grant designed to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of the next generation of batteries for plug-in hybrid and all-electric automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

At least 38 national governments have enacted blending mandates or targets to accelerate the expansion of biofuels production and consumption in the transportation sector. BGPY in 2011) would represent just 7% of the estimated global transportation fuels market in 2021. However, despite strong. BGPY of biofuels demand.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

The production and demonstration of this fleet of vehicles is a significant step in driving PHEV technology beyond the personal transportation platform to a daily work application. Mark Duvall, director of Electric Transportation at EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

However, two-thirds of the sticker registrants had hybrid cars already on the road, the authors noted; in other words, the stimulus effect was lower than expected. Between August 2005 and June 2011, California law allowed owners of hybrid vehicles achieving at least 45 mpg (5.2 6, Issue 3 doi: 10.1257/pol.6.3.1. Policy Sales'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The report emphasizes how a steady rise in commercial emissions, a surprise uptick in power sector emissions, and—for the first time in three years—a dip in transportation pollution, illustrate some of the challenges and opportunities facing policymakers. Private sector investment can also drive green stimulus. lower and 8.3%

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AUGUST 12, 2012

determine the extent to which gasoline price elasticity is affected by the availability of public transportation—a substitute for driving. This, in turn, allows them to measure the effect of public transportation on commuters’ sensitivity to gasoline prices. vehicle, thereby reducing their gasoline consumption. price alone.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

million grant from the US Department of Energy to expand and upgrade the production of lithium materials for advanced transportation batteries. (a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc.) for the addition of lithium hydroxide production at its current operation in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. The project is funded in part by a $28.4-million

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Then, Chrysler announced that it intended to apply to the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant, which would enable Chrysler to establish a nationwide demonstration fleet of zero-emission electric minivans that could be used by the US Postal Service for mail delivery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

In the Stimulus and Future Package, the German Government has given a big boost to the development of Quantum Computers. There are many highly interesting areas, e.g., in logistics, transport, chemicals and the financial sector. Working together with companies and start-ups we will identify, develop, trial, and share applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2013

For the nanoparticle-based electrodes used in solar energy conversion, structural defects such as grain boundaries define pathways for charge transport by creating potential barriers and by promoting recombination. Its efficiency was such that gas bubbles emerged as soon as it was under a light stimulus. —Warren et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Based on the results of ECOtality’s EV Micro-Climate process in the pilot regions, the deployment of these charging systems will take into consideration geographic location, distance to major interstates and transportation routes, distance to other EV Project charging facilities and population density in making its decisions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Daimler AG and leading energy companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Berlin, with the participation of the German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee, to evaluate and expand the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany to support the series production of fuel cell electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Demand stimulus will boost the utilization of our manufacturing capacity, safeguarding jobs and investments. Exempt transport of goods from border closures and align border control measures. Speed up the regulatory work on Digitalization of Transport. Targeted measures will need to be taken to trigger demand and investment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

The battery business will be a part of GE Transportation and will serve customers in the rail, marine, mining, telecommunications and utility sectors. The announcement coincides with GE’s submission this week for federal stimulus dollars from the US Department of Energy. The initial investment in the factory will be $100 million.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2009

Eligible diesel vehicles, engines and equipment include buses; medium- or heavy-duty trucks; marine engines; locomotives; and non-road engines or vehicles used in construction, handling of cargo (including at a port or airport), agriculture, mining, or energy production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We also plan to genetically modify the algae to produce fatty acids of a specific length, to expedite the conversion of the fatty acids into fuels that can be used by our existing transportation infrastructure. Roberts adds that an additional benefit to using algae as a fuel source is that the algal cultures would be transportable.

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APRIL 7, 2010

The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc. to test and certify eTec’s vehicle charging stations that will be used in the project.

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