Sentences with phrase «convert vehicle fleets»

Given what we know about methane leakage, it makes absolutely no sense to convert vehicle fleets to natural gas.

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But he also revealed plans to promote consumption by converting federal fleets to natural gas, offering tax incentives to transport companies for converting their vehicles, and creating five highway corridors, each with a string of natural gas fuel stations.

Those fuel - price economics make sense not just for EnCana, which has converted 163 of its 1,700 vehicles and 15 of its drilling rigs to natural gas, but for larger fleet operators with no special interest in promoting gas.

But as those deposits arrive, fast - growing startup Proterra, packed with ex-Tesla employees, got an order for 25 battery buses from the Los Angeles Department of Transportation in December, each priced at about $ 700,000, as the agency converts a 359 - vehicle fleet to electric.

Uber is eyeing converting its fleet to automated vehicles by the next decade; the state budget expanded the ride - hailing service outside of New York City.

At the same time, Astorino was commended for his push to convert the county vehicle fleet to hybrid or alternative - fuel vehicles as well as flood mitigation projects.

One is that replacing utility power is one thing, but [a] lot of the total energy in the country goes in transportation, so another big assumption is that you'd largely have to convert the U.S. passenger fleet to hybrid plug - in cars and trucks, all that, so that essentially you are fueling vehicles with electricity as well.

Many of the Group's customers are already planning to convert their fleets to vehicles that use natural gas throughout the next year.

Typically fleet vehicles like city buses and utility company trucks are the easiest to convert.

We need to do a «full court press» to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear (which also releases heat into water on a large scale, and supports nuclear military programs), using existing and near - commercialization battery, solar and wind technology, and design systems to cost - effectively convert the existing 600 - million - plus vehicle fleet rather than waiting for replacement.

Further he assumes that the entire vehicle fleet will magically get converted away from gas and credits that to renewable energy.

In addition to Ron's and Felix's cars, we added three more to our PRIUS + fleet: One converted with Electro Energy joined Felix's in a spectacular Capitol Hill blitz, coordinated by Set America Free, with dozens of Senators and Representatives in support of the Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act.

In real - time, V2Green will simultaneously manage the power flow to a fleet of plugin vehicles, including two on the Plug - In 2008 show floor — an AC Propulsion eBox electric car and an A123 Systems / Hymotion converted Toyota Prius plug - in hybrid electric vehicle.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

Converting an additional 2.5 % of the medium duty fleet to electric vehicles will help the region meet its clean energy goals.

The utility is the first French company to join EV100 and commit to converting its entire fleet to electric vehicles by 2030.

The RTA is currently planning to convert 50 % of its fleet to hybrid taxis by 2021 and is monitoring feasibility of hydrogen cell vehicles based on recent advancement in this technology.

«We are pleased the Court has ordered an end to the Bush administration's foot - dragging on converting federal and private vehicle fleets to more fuel efficient and less polluting vehicles.»

He castigated the leading candidates for not making climate change a central component of their agenda.Discussing his green initiatives for the city, he again reiterated his call for a carbon tax and boasted of the efforts underway to convert the city's taxi fleet to hybrid vehicles and to plant 1 million trees.

GE will convert at least half of its 30,000 global fleet and will partner with fleet customers to deploy a total of 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015.

We're talking about a world where California gets more than 50 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2030 (up from 25 percent today), where zero - emissions vehicles are 25 percent of the fleet by 2035 (up from about 1 percent today), where high - speed rail is displacing car travel, where biofuels have replaced a significant chunk of diesel in heavy - duty trucks, where pastures are getting converted to forests, where electricity replaces natural gas in heating, and on and on.