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Sacramento Clean Cities' goal is to reduce fossil petroleum consumption in the transportation sector. |
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Sacramento Clean Cities News |
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Tech & Spec Webinar Schedule |
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Sacramento Clean Cities “Tech & Spec” Webinar Series 11am - 12 noon
What fleet managers, lead technicians and specification writers need to know
- 11/17 EV Maintenance & Buying a Used EV (12noon -12:30)
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Registration is not required - Join with this link LINK
- 12/9 HD BEV Do’s and Don’ts (11am - 12noon)
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- 12/15 Lordstown Motors Endurance Electric PIckup Truck (12noon - 12:30)
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Registration is not required - Join with this link LINK
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New California Updates, Regulations, and Requirements |
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Human Powered Transportation Has Dramatically Grown |
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Micromobility (partially or fully human powered transportation like scooters, bicycles and e-bikes) have dramatically grown in popularity. Trips on scooters more than doubled from 2018 to 2019 while bike trips increased by 3% and e-bike trips increased 54%.
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SACOG's Regional Fuel Agreements |
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SACOG’s Regional Fuel Agreements have now been available to cities, counties and special districts in the Sacramento Region for one year. These contracts provide access at low contract fleet pricing to eight fuels and lubricants including: Unleaded Gasoline, Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel, Renewable Diesel, Red-Dyed [i.e. off-road] Diesel, Ethanol, Propane, Various Lubricants and Cardlock Fueling.
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Sacramento Clean Cities Sponsors Make The News |
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Cummins Participating in Webinar on Natural Gas Engine Maintenance |
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Cummins will participate in a webinar on Wednesday, December 2 from 10am - 11:30am covering natural gas engine maintenance and best practices, and the Northwest Alliance for Clean Transportation will present their web-based evaluation tool that identifies opportunities to convert from Diesel to NG.
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US Gain Now Supplying RNG in Southern Oregon |
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US Gain, a major supplier of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) to California fleets, and one of the largest suppliers of RNG in the US, is now supplying RNG to the Rogue Valley Transit Authority in Southern Oregon.
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DANNAR Introduces Latest Mobile Power System |
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DANNAR has introduced their latest version of their Mobile Power System (MPS) with 500kWh of exportable power with multiple 110v or 208v ports.
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Ford Has No Plans To Build Electric Super Duty Pickup |
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Ford has announced that they will be building the eF150 and the eTranst Van, but they do not have plans to build battery-electric Super Duty Pickup Trucks (i.e. trucks with GVW over 8,500#).
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Future Ford of Sacramento is Making Appointments to Check Out the Mach-E |
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Future Ford of Sacramento is making appointments to check out the Mach-E “in the flesh!”. Appointments are available starting November 11, from noon to 6pm at the Future Ford store on Madison Avenue at Interstate 80, and other Sacramento Area Ford dealerships.
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The Trucking Industry is Concerned About State ZEV Mandates |
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The trucking industry is concerned about the state’s mandates to move to 100% ZEV technologies, and is pointing out that engines running on Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) can have extraordinarily low emissions and net-negative GHG, and that Renewable Hydrogen can be made from RNG and can power ZEVs using fuel cells.
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Recent Massachusetts Law Requires Auto Companies to Open Up About Telematics |
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Right to Data Law: A recent law passed in Massachusetts will require all auto companies to use an open standard for all telematics and wirelessly transmitted data by 2022. This data sharing mandate is not popular with EV manufacturers who prefer to keep operational and repair data proprietary.
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EV Conversion Kit for Classic Cooper Mini |
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Swindon Powertrain, a British company, makes an EV conversion kit for the original “classic” Cooper Mini.The basic kit costs $11K and includes the motor, mounting and suspension components. If you don’t have your own battery pack, motor controller and charger, a complete conversion kit is about $40K. If you have to buy the Mini as well, you’ll be looking at a $60K EV, even more if you have to pay someone to do the conversion.
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Daimler and Volvo Form Partnership To Develop Fuel Cell Powertrains |
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Daimler and Volvo have formed a partnership to develop fuel cell powertrains for heavy-duty trucks and backup generators. They expect to have demonstration vehicles in service by 2023 and be in commercial production by 2025
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California Refineries: For the week ending 10/30/20, refineries in California produced 5,772 barrels of gasoline and 2,182 barrels of diesel. Gasoline production was down by 3.2% and diesel production was up by 28.1% from last week’s production numbers. The 11/2/20 wholesale spot price of propane on the Mont Belvieu Texas board was 54.9¢ per gallon, up 3.7% from the 10/26/20 spot price.
Read More Here for gasoline and diesel production.
Read more Here for propane prices.
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Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition | 916 - 622 - 8433 |
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