Driving the Future: Key Benefits and Considerations for Electric School Bus Adoption
Join us on July 18th, 2024 for a conversation with Sonny Merryman and Whitney Kopanko – Sonny Merryman has delivered 225+ electric school buses to 40 school districts across Virginia. With each of these deployments, we’ve learned firsthand the keys to making a deployment successful. That starts ...
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Join Virginia Clean Cities on June 15th at 4:00 p.m. EST for our Technology Happy Hour on Hydrogen! Geovanni Castano with Dominion Energy will feature in this month’s webinar to give an introduction to hydrogen, a closer look at the fuel for heavy-duty transportation and a glimpse at Hydrogen Hubs in the Mid-Atlantic.
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Continue Reading →On March 16th, Steve McCoy with Alliance Autogas, the autogas arm of Blossman Gas, joined Virginia Clean Cities for the Technology Happy Hour. Steve McCoy, Vice President of Business Development, shared a presentation covering the benefits and uses of propane Autogas.
Steve joined us to talk about the benefits of propane autogas and renewable propane, highlighting the benefits of landfill diversion, reduced fleet costs and carbon reduction. Steve also shared an exciting announcement of a partnership that will work to ...
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Join us and Shankar Mukherjee, Vice President of Market Development and Product Management at Virginia Transformer Corporation, on February 16th at 4:00 PM for an in-depth conversation covering the theme “Implementing Next-Gen Smart and Efficient EV Charging Infrastructure!” Shankar will be discussing topics surrounding the effects of lead times on the transformer industry, whether there ...
Continue Reading →On September 15th, the Technology Happy Hour featured the Green Operator Program. The Green Operator Program is the Port of Virginia’s clean engine program, administered by the Port of Virginia, EcoLogix, and Virginia Clean Cities. The program provides rebates of up to $30,000 toward the purchase of a drayage truck with a 2014 or newer engine to operators serving the port of Virginia.
Ecologix’s Senior Associate, Ed Mihalski, shared an overview of the program, and past program ...
Continue Reading →On August 18th, the Virginia Clean Cities Technology Happy Hour featured several leading companies on state contract in Virginia for EV supply equipment (EVSE). Speakers included representatives from Autoflex, Bethel Electric, NOVACharge and OpConnect discussing charging options from affordable Level 2 equipment to more advanced DC fast charging stations.
If you’re part of a Virginia public college or university, state agency, public school district or local government, you won’t want to miss hearing about these companies’ ...
Continue Reading →On July 21st, Highland joined Virginia Clean Cities for the Technology Happy Hour. Claire Alford, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Associate on the Market Development team at Highland Electric Fleets, shared how Highland’s electric fleet subscription model can bring electric school buses to fleets across the nation from large to small.
Right now is a big time for electric school buses with the first round of the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program Funding Open (applications close on August ...
Continue Reading →On May 19th, 2022, Cummins Inc., joined Virginia Clean Cities for the Technology Happy Hour. Patrick Campbell, Regional Sales Manager, for Cummins Alternative Technologies presented their new compressed natural gas (CNG) engine, the Cummins X15N.
Changes coming down the pipe in 2023 from EPA and CARB, and energy social and government (ESG) demands of private fleets have increased interest in natural gas as an alternative fuel source over recent years. With these shifts, Cummins is growing its regional ...
Continue Reading →On February 17th, 2022, Wido Westbroek, Senior Director of Fuel Cell Strategic Projects for Cummins was the featured speaker for the Virginia Clean Cities Technology Happy Hour. Wido, along with support from Anne Oluyombo and Kevin Shaw on the Cummins team, joined Virginia Clean Cities to talk about the great work being done with battery-electric, fuel cell, and hydrogen-production technologies.
Cummins has been a giant in the transportation field for more than 100 years and the Cummins New Power team ...
Continue Reading →On January 20th, 2022 Chas Mease, EV Fleet Sales for Lonestar Specialty Vehicles was the featured speaker for the Virginia Clean Cities Technology Happy Hour.
Lonestar Specialty Vehicles, with 24 full-service dealerships across the country, manufactures turnkey electric vehicle solutions for the commercial vehicle market. Lonestar’s terminal tractors (also known as shunt trucks, spotter trucks, yard trucks, yard shifters, yard dogs, yard goats, yard horses, yard birds, yard jockeys, hostlers, or mules) improve productivity, reduce ...
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