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KING 5, August 18, 2015
For the first time in nearly three decades King County will have a new fleet of trolley buses. The first five of these all-electric buses will go into service tomorrow and 174 of the purple colored buses are expected to roll out over the next two years on Metro's busiest routes. The new fleet costs about $186 million. Federal grants pay about 65 percent of that.

The Sacramento Bee, August 20, 2015
On July 30, Brown, the governors of Oregon and Washington, and the premier of British Columbia announced the launch of an initiative designed to accelerate adoption of zero-emission vehicles, or ZEVs for short, in public and private fleets up and down the West Coast. The linchpin of the initiative is Seattle-based West Coast Electric Fleets, which provides resources, tools, technical assistance and access to a peer network to help fleet managers incorporating ZEVs into their fleets.

Clean Cities, August 25, 2015
With school starting in many areas of the country, summer is coming to an end.  However, that doesn't always mean that the hot weather is gone.  When picking up or dropping off your kids at school, practice, or any number of after-school activities, keeping them comfortable is crucial to a complaint-free ride. However, staying cool can reduce your car or truck's fuel economy.
  
Fleet Owner, August 25, 2015
Anheuser-Busch, the Fleet Owner 2015 Green Fleet of the Year, announced today that it is converting its entire St. Louis truck fleet to compressed natural gas. It is the second full facility conversion for the company. The company will replace 97 diesel-powered tractors with Freightliner CNG vehicles, displacing some 2,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year and reducing greenhouse gas emissions 23%.
  
Biodiesel Magazine, August 21, 2015
The acquisition of Imperium Renewables Inc.'s assets by Renewable Energy Group Inc. has been completed. The assets include a 100 MMgy biodiesel plant and deep-water port terminal at the Port of Grays Harbor, Washington. The Grays Harbor location includes 18 million gallons of storage capacity and a terminal that can accommodate feedstock intake and fuel delivery on deep-water Panamax-class vessels. 

Green Car Reports, August 25, 2015
The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid has been on sale in Japan and Europe for quite some time now, but its U.S. launch has been delayed repeatedly. Mitsubishi will begin selling the selling the Outlander Plug-In Hybrid here next May, according to industry trade journal Automotive News. 

CBS News, August 25, 2015
Some roads in England may be going electric -- or at least they could make electric vehicles a more feasible form of transportation if a new trial of wireless charging lanes is successful. The goal is to allow ultra-low emission vehicles to travel longer distances without the need to stop and charge, which, in turn would cut down on air-polluting vehicle emissions and gas usage. 

Bloomberg, August 19, 2015
Toyota Motor Corp. will reveal the first redesign of the Prius in almost seven years in Las Vegas next month, wagering that new looks can revive demand for its top-selling hybrid. The 2016 Prius will be shown to media on Sept. 8. Toyota's last revamp in 2009 catapulted Prius into the mainstream as the first hybrid to cross 500,000 units in its first full year on the market. By comparison, Tesla Motors Inc. targets that many deliveries for its whole lineup in 2020. 

Green Car Reports, August 26, 2015
Gas stations are ubiquitous across the world, many with diesel pumps as well, to fuel the more than 1 billion vehicles now roaming the surface of our planet. As regulators get serious about reducing carbon emissions from transportation, we'll see competing sites for refueling or recharging zero-emission vehicles emerge--the first serious competition to hydrocarbon fuels in a century. So it's worth looking at "throughput," or the number of vehicles that can be refueled or recharged at these different locations.

Fleets & Fuels, August 25, 2015
Clean Energy Fuels today announced a bevy of new contracts for compressed natural gas for buses, including Arlington Transit in Arlington County, Va.; Nassau Inter-County Express on Long Island, N.Y.; and the North Kansas City School District in Missouri, "which is set to become the largest school district in the U.S. to transition its school bus fleet to CNG." 

The EV Everywhere Logo Design Challenge invites designers to create a compelling graphic that communicates two main ideas: 1) that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are beneficial and practical and 2) EV Everywhere is the place for drivers to come for data-driven, objective information about them.
August 26, 2015
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