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New York City May Soon Set The Pace For Municipal Vehicle Electrification

February 18, 2023 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, eric adams, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev fleets, New York, NEW YORK CITY

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:05:43 +0000

California is rarely outshined as the leader when it comes to transportation electrification. However, the New York City Council is considering a bill that would codify a path toward a 100 percent zero-emission municipal fleet. This proposal would require the city’s entire on-road fleet, including heavy-duty trucks and specialty vehicles, to transition to zero-emission vehicles […]

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New York City Votes to “Skip the Stuff” In Take-Out Orders

January 23, 2023 admin Fossil Fuels, NEW YORK CITY, nrdc, NYC, Plastic, policy & politics

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:36:59 +0000

“Billions of pounds of plastic cover 40% of our ocean surfaces and we contribute to that,” said Council Member Erik Bottcher. “That’s why I’m so proud to be a prime cosponsor of the Skip the Stuff Legislation. Thanks to Chair Velázquez for sponsoring this bill and holding this important hearing. I’m also grateful to the amazing advocates and organizations like Reusable NYC who work on this issue every single day.”

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Geothermal Energy & Love In The Mouth Of The Dragon

January 17, 2023 admin clean power, geothermal energy, geothermal heat pumps, NEW YORK CITY, texas, university of texas, volcanic, volcanic eruptions, Volcano, volcanoes, washington state, West Virginia

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:05:19 +0000

Fire of Love explores the infinite power of geothermal energy through the lens of two 20th-century volcano scientists who plied their trade without the benefit of drones and other new technology.

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NYC Set to Add 900 EVs to City Fleet

January 14, 2023 admin cars, city fleets, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev incentives, NEW YORK CITY, NYC

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:25:04 +0000

New York City (NYC) recently announced plans to replace some 900 internal combustion vehicles with all-new, clean-running EVs!

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FedEx Expands Electric Cart Routes in New York City

January 1, 2023 admin brightdrop, clean transport, Electric vehicles, fedex, general motors, gm, NEW YORK CITY, Shipping

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:05:55 +0000

When we talk about the “last mile” in delivery, there’s a part of that last mile that we often leave out: the last few yards. The rest of the mile before that is usually trucks that come from a local depot of some kind to drop packages to customers, but that doesn’t mean the packages […]

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Hitachi Energy Will Modernize HVDC System, Boost Delivery of Canadian Hydropower to U.S.

December 15, 2022 admin Canada, full coverage, hitachi energy, hvdc, hydro-quebec, New York, NEW YORK CITY, news, Power Demand, T&D, Technology, transmission

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:57:00 +0000

Hitachi Energy will spearhead the modernization of a key high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system in Canada to support the transmission of 1,500 MW of renewable power between Quebec and New York state’s electrical networks. Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest power utility, on Dec. 15, picked the global technology firm to supply a “back-to-back” converter station at Châteauguay, […]

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Hitachi Energy Will Modernize HVDC System, Boost Delivery of Canadian Hydropower to U.S.

December 15, 2022 admin Canada, full coverage, hitachi energy, hvdc, hydro-quebec, New York, NEW YORK CITY, news, Power Demand, T&D, Technology, transmission

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:57:00 +0000

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This Little Autonomous Vehicle Getting Use At New York’s JFK International Airport

November 7, 2022 admin airport shuttles, airports, autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, electric shuttles, Electric vehicles, ev shuttles, navya, New York, NEW YORK CITY, NYC, roboshuttles

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:55:58 +0000

We give much attention to autonomous driving companies like Waymo, Cruise, Tesla, Argo AI, etc., yet often forget about little autonomous shuttle company Navya. It’s true — Navya is not tackling general AI or usable in nearly as many environments as the tech created by those other companies. Nonetheless, it gets use on various simple […]

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1st Vehicle-to-Grid System on NYC Grid Launches

August 21, 2022 admin batteries, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, fermata energy, grid, lithium-ion batteries, New York, NEW YORK CITY, ninedot energy, NYC, revel, ridesharing, Smart Grid, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:20:50 +0000

The first vehicle-to-grid system on NYC’s electricity grid launched this week. The system comes from a collaboration between Revel rideshare, Fermata Energy, and NineDot Energy. Revel’s rideshare system includes only fully electric cars. However, Tesla vehicles are not set up for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) service, so it’s just the rideshare network’s Nissan LEAFs that will be sending […]