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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled two funding opportunities totaling more than $162 million to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions among cars, trucks, and off-road vehicles. The funding will support the next stage of the SuperTruck initiatives—aimed at electrifying freight trucking—along with efforts to expand electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and ...

Washington, D.C.— Dozens of businesses, including vehicle manufacturing leaders, urged Gov. Ralph Northam to support the electrification of trucks and buses throughout the commonwealth Wednesday. The Electrification Coalition delivered a letter signed by 47 businesses, urging the governor to join in the Multi-State Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Memorandum of Understanding, pledging that at least 30 percent of all new trucks and buses sold in the commonwealth will be zero-emission vehicles by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050. Fifteen ...

Engaging in questions of environmental and societal stewardship is an increasingly important way for businesses to create sustainable value and purpose. The choices that we make both professionally and personally can make a difference in our environment.

The EPA’s SmartWay program helps companies advance supply chain sustainability by measuring, benchmarking and improving freight transportation efficiency.

This Earth Day encourage your stakeholders to reduce their environmental footprint. ...

Argonne National Laboratory is pleased to announce the release of the AFLEET Tool 2020: https://afleet-web.es.anl.gov/, which was developed to help Clean Cities stakeholders estimate energy use, emissions, and cost of ownership of alternative fuel vehicles. Using this link you can find the AFLEET spreadsheet, AFLEET online tool, and the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions Calculator (online tool), which all have been updated. The online tools use AFLEET spreadsheet calculations and have had their underlying emissions and cost data matched ...

The Electric Truck Bootcamp is a 10-part educational series on electric trucks appropriate for fleet managers, utility planners, policymakers, and more. Register here!

While the Run on Less – Electric (RoL-E) event this September is focused on today’s fleet and OEM leaders who have electric trucks already in operation, the Electric Truck Bootcamp is designed with “fast followers” in mind, to increase industry awareness of electric trucks, provide professional development ...

New leadership at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will set strategic priorities for the work managed at the Vehicle Technologies Office and the Technology Integration Program. On Thursday, February 25^th, 2021, Jennifer M. Granholm was sworn in as the 16^th Secretary of Energy. Secretary Granholm’s vision for Deploying the Clean Energy Revolution focuses on the cornerstone of President Biden’s climate agenda, “the goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.” Under Granholm’s leadership, DOE will play a critical ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $61.4 million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. Biofuels are derived from renewable resources, and can power heavy-duty vehicles that are difficult to electrify with current technologies—including airplanes and ships—to help accelerate America’s path to a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

“Biofuels are one of our most promising paths to zero-carbon aviation and shipping, so it’s time to double down on R&D and begin to deploy these technologies at scale,” said Secretary of Energy ...

Some Virginia cities are taking a proactive stance in improving air quality and ensuring good stewardship of city resources by taking action in the clean transportation revolution. The City of Roanoke, for example, is using electric vehicles in city operations and helping to highlight that usage by participating in a project called EV-WATTS (Electric Vehicles – Widescale Analysis for Tomorrow’s Transportation Solutions). 

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Virginia Clean Cities and Coalition Stakeholders recently completed a successful round of meetings with Virginia’s Congressional delegation.

The Coalition is asking Virginia’s delegation to support the following legislative priorities that will expand the nation’s use of domestically produced alternatives to petroleum:

1. Extend the tax incentives ...