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UPS said in early November the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will provide $ 500,000 to develop a system for converting UPS's New York fleet from diesel to electric.

The electric plane will be able to take off and land vertically, and Uber hopes to have a fleet of 50 ready for testing in Dallas and Dubai by 2020.

And Toyota has designed the i - ROAD, a small, electric concept car eventually meant to be deployed in urban fleets and shared, similar to the bike shares popping up in many cities.

The turnover in the U.S. car fleet is about 10 years, so if everyone bought an electric car the next time they bought a car, you'd have 95 percent electric cars in 10 years.

«Our view is that General Electric's key challenge is in North America and it relates to the lack of robust demand for new gas - fired power capacity coupled with an installed fleet that is coming off Long Term Service Agreements that were put in place as far back as 2000,» Obin explained.

The three governments should also commit to a growing percentage of electric vehicles in their own fleets, and support states and provinces that make similar commitments — as U.S. states and British Columbia have already done via the Pacific Coast Collaborative.

Indian ride - hailing firm Ola's pilot project to test a fleet of electric vehicles in Nagpur was expected to herald a coming...

Ford is doubling down on its commitment to electrify its vehicle fleet and plans to invest $ 11 billion in electric vehicle technology.

Like Norway Post, ASKO had been involved in the green fleet revolution even before the Tesla Semi was released, with the wholesaler already deploying an electric truck on its day - to - day operations.

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.

These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles based on a completely new architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.

Cruise has developed driverless versions of the electric Chevrolet Bolt, plus an app to use the cars as robotaxis in a ride - hailing fleet starting next year.

Reuters reported in February that General Motors Co's plans to deploy thousands of self - driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with Lyft, beginning in 2018, citing two sources familiar with the automaker's plans.

PepsiCo operates the largest all - electric delivery vehicle fleet in America, and The Coca - Cola Company operates the largest heavy - duty hybrid electric commercial truck fleet in North America, as Brune and Paglia point out.

The company has begun building a fleet of 100 experimental electric - powered vehicles that will dispense with all the standard controls found in modern automobiles.

Over the past months, the company has converted ten percent of its truck fleet to environmentally - friendly fuels, as its tests out both electric trucks and CNG trucks in advance of a full conversion.

In December, the New York Power Authority approved $ 2 million in funding to help municipal and rural electric cooperative systems in New York State purchase electric - drive vehicles for use in their municipal fleetIn December, the New York Power Authority approved $ 2 million in funding to help municipal and rural electric cooperative systems in New York State purchase electric - drive vehicles for use in their municipal fleetin funding to help municipal and rural electric cooperative systems in New York State purchase electric - drive vehicles for use in their municipal fleetin New York State purchase electric - drive vehicles for use in their municipal fleetin their municipal fleets.

And speaking of power sources, given this spike in electricity rates, will Ulster County government reconsider plans to move to an all - electric fleet?

By 2020, the company plans to produce as many lithium - ion batteries annually as the entire world produced in 2013 — enough for a fleet of 500,000 electric cars — and with a 30 per cent reduction in production cost per battery.

Emblazoned with a sign that says «Save Kathmandu,» battery - powered autorickshaws are among the smallest and least - familiar models in the world's growing fleet of electric vehicles

Patrick Hallgate, Network Rail's managing director for the Western route, said: «Our Great Western Electrification Programme will bring Brunel's railway into the 21st century, by electrifying the main line that runs from London Paddington to Swansea in preparation for the arrival of a new fleet of electric trains.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

Analysts say the 95 g / km 2020 goal as an average across the EU fleet is achievable using conventional combustion engines, but industry opinions are divided over whether pushing below that level could be done with existing engines or require a major increase in electric and hybrid vehicles.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the second most powerful court in the country behind the Supreme Court, heard two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's first rules to crack down on mercury from the country's fleet of electric generating units.

This gap in research has now been closed by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000 battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their vehicles.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

The data logger designed by the project group for New Drive Systems NAS in Karlsruhe is useful when developing new hybrid and electric vehicles, and also increases the efficiency of vehicle fleets.

This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.

And, in addition to learning where and when EV owners charge up their cars, Volt manufacturer General Motors is hoping to learn from the folks in the Pecan Street project how a residential fleet of electric vehicles might change the electric grid.

Last November, the Air Force rolled out the federal government's first fleet of plug - in and hybrid electric vehicles.

Electrifying the light - duty vehicle fleet through expanded deployment of plug - in hybrids, battery electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles.

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In 2010, BYD introduced 50 e6 electric taxis to the Shenzhen fleet as a trial, and added another 250 last summer after successful first tests.

California residents who want to get behind the wheel of an electric car now have another option: Zipcar has added the Honda Fit EV to its car - sharing fleets in San Francisco.

With the addition the service is clearly one of the largest fleets of electric buses to be found in the U.S..

2018 is Going to be Electrifying for TriMet Aug 10, 2017 Mass Transit (Fort Atkinson, WI) TriMet is in the early stages of plan development for a possible transition to all - electric propulsion for their bus fleet, but first TriMet needed to kick the tires, so to speak, of the newest generation of electric buses.

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Transit Capital Program with another $ 5 million in order to add 19 electric buses to its fleet.

It will take the total number of electric buses on the capital's streets to more than 120, in addition to 2,000 hybrid electric buses — 20 per cent of the whole fleet - already in operation.

Metro Will Soon Start Testing New Electric Bus In Greater Houston Sep 23, 2016 Houston Public Media (Houston, TX) Metro's fleet has over 1,200 buses.

BruinBus Transit Fleet Ditches Diesel and Goes All Clean Fuel Sep 27, 2016 UCLA Newsroom (Los Angeles, CA) UCLA became the first public university in California with electric buses today, when two zero - emissions electric buses replaced the last diesel buses in the BruinBus transit fleet.

TriMet already has eight hybrid buses in its fleet of about 675 buses and with the federal grant will be adding four electric buses in 2018.

Credit Ford for filling a gaping hole in the vehicular fleet with this excellent Turkish - built import, and for realizing that converting a few of them to electric propulsion is a sensible means of spreading the Transit Connect's reach.

Volkswagen says it is currently developing a fleet of electric vehicles that will start full production in a few years.

Combined with the 14 current compressed natural gas, or CNG, buses in UCLA's fleet, UCLA's first electric buses switch the BruinBus fleet to all clean fuel, and continue to reduce the university's reliance on fossil fuel.

A fleet of 200 electric cars is destined for the streets of London in a bid to exploit a tax loophole.

To service shorter routes, the USPS has several different battery electric vehicles in its fleet, including the T3 Series electric vehicle.

The FedEx hybrid - electric fleet has logged more than four million miles of revenue service since first being introduced in 2004.

In addition to this the new battery electric buses, just like TriMet's current fleet of hybrid buses and select MAX trains, will have regenerative braking.