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Sacramento Clean Cities' goal is to reduce fossil petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.
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Sacramento Clean Fuel Technology Workshop
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7/15-
The 4th annual Sustainable Fleet Technology Conference & Expo
- The 4th annual Sustainable Fleet Technology Conference & Expo has been changed to a series of virtual webinars.
- Read More Here
8/24- The 2020 Green Technology Summit and Expo
- Sac Clean Cities Coalition Stakeholders qualify for a registration discount if they use SACCC30.
- Register
10/6 - Training for Natural Gas Vehicle Technicians
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Sacramento Clean Cities News
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100 Best Fleets Nominations
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100 Best Fleets
, a Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition partner, has opened 2020 nominations. Applications are being accepted until July 27, and will be announced on August 25.
This is your chance to be recognized for the good job you are doing!
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100 Best Fleets
is also conducting a webinar on fleet business strategies during the pandemic and recovery afterwards - June 25 from 11 - 12:30.
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National Truck Equipment Association Webinar
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The
National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA)
is hosting a webinar series that can fulfill continuing education unit requirements. The webinars will run from June 24 through November 9 and will include:
* Specification development and your truck fleet
* Fiscal impacts on government fleets during challenging times
* Improve your spec’ing process for vehicle efficiency
* Reducing fleet capital costs through improved financing practices
* Life cycle costing for vehicle-to-vehicle comparisons
* Reducing fleet operating costs through improved visibility
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Sacramento Clean Cities Sponsors Make The News
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A-Z Bus Delivers Electric School Buses
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A-Z Bus
, a Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition sponsor, has delivered five Type-D all Blue Bird electric school buses to Michael’s Transportation Services, Inc., headquartered in Vallejo, California. Michael’s is the first school transportation contractor in the state to take delivery of zero-emission electric Blue Bird buses.
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Adomani Medium-Duty EVs For Sale
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Adomani
, a Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition sponsor, has a number of medium-duty EVs in inventory, available for immediate sale.
Class 3 Truck 1
Class 4 Low top vans 4
Class 4 High top vans 4
Class 4 Cutaways 1
Class 4 Box Truck 1
Class 4 Stake Truck 1
Class 4 Cab and Chassis 3
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Valley Pacific New Distribution Locations
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Valley Pacific
, a Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition sponsor, has 17 distribution locations from Bakersfield to Eureka, supplying B20, Renewable Diesel (RD) and now supplying R80B20, a fully compatible, 100% renewable and ultra-low GHG diesel fuel.
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Nikola Becomes Publicly Traded Company
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Nikola
, a Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition sponsor and manufacturer of hydrogen and electric truck tractors and pickup trucks, has recently become a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq exchange (NKLA), has signed a $30M purchase for 85MWs of hydrogen production equipment from NEL to produce 8 tons per day of hydrogen at each of their first five hydrogen stations.
Nikola
will begin taking pre-orders for their “Badger” electric pickup truck this month and are preparing to break ground in Arizona to build their American truck manufacturing facility. European truck manufacturing will begin in Ulm, Germany in 2021.
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Prometheus Fuels Develops Technology For Renewable Electricity
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Prometheus Fuels is a company that has developed a technology for using 100% renewable electricity from solar and wind to make gasoline by extracting CO2 and water vapor in the air. BMW has recently invested in Prometheus Fuels, and they say that this renewable gasoline will be available for sale in California by the end of this year.
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Holland has a number of internal canals. The barges that operate on those waterways contribute about 5% of Holland’s GHG emissions. Now, a barge is being developed to run on clean and quiet electric motors powered by batteries that will be loaded onto the barges in cargo containers.
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Zero-Emission Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicles Available Database
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The “Global Drive to Zero” website has a complete, easily searchable database of all zero-emission medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles currently available or very near commercial availability.
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Hydrogen Vs Gasoline Fuel Prices
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A recent report from the California Energy Commission, “Roadmap for the Deployment and Buildout of Renewable Hydrogen Production Plants in California” projects price parity between hydrogen and gasoline vehicles by 2025.
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Lordstown Motors Pickup Truck
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Lordstown Motors plans to be selling their “Endurance” pickup truck by Q1, 2021. They are getting the 6.2 million square foot former GM factory in Ohio ready for production, and are able to move this quickly because of their partnership with Workhorse, allowing them to use much of the tech developed for the Workhorse W15.
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Mr. Saehoon Kim, Senior Vice President and head of Hyundai Motor Company’s Fuel Cell Center, has indicated that Hyundai (in partnership with Toyota) sees a strong future in hydrogen fuel cell zero-emission vehicles of all weight classes, from Light-duty to Heavy-duty and Off-road.
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Prodded by Nikola’s announcement that they will begin manufacturing their heavy-duty EVs/FCVs in Germany in 2021, and will be breaking ground in Arizona for their US EV/FCV truck production, Tesla has announced that they will initiate a ramp up of commercial production of the Tesla Semi. Battery and drivetrain production will happen at the Tesla Giga Factory in Nevada. The location of the vehicle factory has not yet been selected.
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Las Vegas RTC To Implement Hydrogen Transit Buses
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Las Vegas RTC has received a grant from the US Department of Transportation to implement hydrogen transit buses and hydrogen refueling infrastructure.
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For the week ending 6/5/20, refineries in California produced 244,440 gallons of gasoline and 87,864 gallons of diesel. This represents INCREASE in gasoline production of 2%, and a 14% INCREASE in diesel production from last week.
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