Greening the Port of Los Angeles with Electric Vehicle Company, Balqon Corporation (OTCBB: BLQN)
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Delta B.C/Point Roberts WA/., April 22 , 2010 - www.InvestorIdeas.com and its leading green investor portals report on Balqon Corporation (OTCBB: BLQN), developer and manufacturer of zero emission heavy-duty electric trucks and tractors for both off-highway and on-highway applications, in celebration of Earth Day 2010.
The Port of Port of Los Angeles is currently deploying Balqon’s electric vehicles as part of the California and Los Angeles vision to be a leader in clean technology.
According to the company’s filings, “As of November 13, 2009, we have delivered 12 Nautilus E20s to the City of Los Angeles and one Nautilus E20 to the AQMD. All of the Nautilus E20s we delivered during the third quarter of 2009 were equipped with lithium-ion battery packs.
We anticipate that a majority of future sales of our heavy-duty electric vehicles will be made directly to end users, such as large terminal operators, shipping companies and OEMs, rather than directly to governmental agencies such as the AQMD and the City of Los Angeles.”.
Recent Media Coverage:
New Trucks Aim To Keep the Docks Humming In Los Angeles
04/06/2010
The Port of Los Angeles and Balqon Corp were showing off their first production XE20 electric, zero-emission yard tractors on Wednesday at an all-day Ride and Drive event at Berth 87. Balqon is getting ready to deliver 20 of the new heavy-duty trucks to a container terminal for a real-world debut.
The port ordered the lithium-ion battery-powered vehicles to be built almost a year ago, along with five XE30 trucks designed for short-haul, on-road drayage. The XE30s will be used to shuttle containers from the port to a near-dock rail yard about five miles north of the harbor.
Full article: http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=1235
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Recent News:
Balqon Corporation (OTCBB: BLQN), Announces Record Revenue Growth in 2009
HARBOR CITY, Calif. - April 14, 2010 - Balqon Corporation (OTCBB: BLQN), an emerging developer and manufacturer of zero emissions heavy-duty electric vehicles for Class 7 and Class 8 applications, announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2009 on March 31, 2010. Revenues for 2009 were $3,598,752, an increase of $3,395,092, or 1,667%, over revenues of $203,660 for 2008. Full news: http://www.investorideas.com/CO/BLQN/news/4141.asp
About Balqon Corporation (OTCBB:BLQN) http://www.balqon.com/
Balqon Corporation is a leading developer of heavy duty electric trucks, tractors and electric drive systems. The Company uses its proprietary flux vector motor technology to design propulsion systems for 10 to 50 ton capacity vehicles and material handling equipment. Balqon Corporation’s current product line of tow tractors are designed to transport containers at ports, marine terminals, rail yards, warehouses, intermodal facilities, military bases and mail facilities.
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Showing posts with label Earth Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Day. Show all posts
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Monday, March 31, 2008
Yahoo! Survey of Consumers for Earth Day
Yahoo! recently completed a survey of U.S. consumers to find out how they plan to celebrate Earth Day, what environmental issues are top of mind, and how much recycling and reusing are a part of daily life. The answers may surprise you – more than half of all those surveyed didn’t even know that April 22nd was Earth Day.
Consumer knowledge of key ‘environmental terms”
The word global warming, reuse and carbon neutral can mean many things to many individuals. Most Americans claim to know how to define global warming and understand the concept of reuse. However, only a third of all Americans can define the word carbon neutral.
Impacting The Environment
Consumers believe that reuse, recycling and curbing car use is the most effective way to positively impact the environment. However, education about global warming is still needed as less than half believe that Global warming is bad for their personal health, and only one in ten believe that eating meat might be bad for the environment.
Interestingly enough, only ½ of all consumers believe that their individual contribution has any impact on the earth as a whole.
Thinking And Action
63% of consumers recycle and 57% reuse products every chance they get. Many are also using energy efficient appliances and light bulbs around the home. However, apart from recycling, consumers are significantly less likely to give up red meat, take public transportation, carpool and even buy environmentally friendly cleaning supplies.
Boomers have an elevated sense of urgency when it comes to the environment. They feel significantly more positive about their individual contribution maybe because of their elevated belief that global warming will impact them in their lifetime. That train of thought and thinking leads significantly greater action in recycling, reuse, and green clean product buying. This thinking translates into advocacy, as a quarter will convince friends to buy eco-friendly products when they ask my opinion on purchases.
However, not even they are more likely to take more public transportation, carpool or abstain from meat.
Even with all these initiatives around the environment, nearly half believe Global Warming won’t impact their generation or lifetime and 1/5 believe it is a sensationalized story by the media.
Recycling and reusing, why not?
Among those who don’t recycle, the biggest reason is difficulty where they live, simply forgetting and not knowing where to go to recycle. Nearly 4 in 10 don’t know why they don’t reuse more. Lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to reusing different products.
The biggest driver to product reuse is cost savings which is at parity with the positive environmental impact. A functional cost savings message tied with the positive impact on environment may most appeal when talking about reuse to consumers.
One very positive outcome is that nearly 90% of Americans would consider product reuse products if more education was done on the matter. In fact, a third of Boomers are ready to make a change to reuse products every chance they get if provided with the right information.
39% of all consumers will pay a little extra for environmentally friendly products
Earth Day
More than half didn’t know that April 22 is Earth Day. 44% of all consumers have no plans to do anything during Earth Day. However, among those who do know about earth day, almost seven in ten will participate in an earth day event. Most will participate in recycling or tree planting. A quarter will participate in an earth day event.
Consumer knowledge of key ‘environmental terms”
The word global warming, reuse and carbon neutral can mean many things to many individuals. Most Americans claim to know how to define global warming and understand the concept of reuse. However, only a third of all Americans can define the word carbon neutral.
Impacting The Environment
Consumers believe that reuse, recycling and curbing car use is the most effective way to positively impact the environment. However, education about global warming is still needed as less than half believe that Global warming is bad for their personal health, and only one in ten believe that eating meat might be bad for the environment.
Interestingly enough, only ½ of all consumers believe that their individual contribution has any impact on the earth as a whole.
Thinking And Action
63% of consumers recycle and 57% reuse products every chance they get. Many are also using energy efficient appliances and light bulbs around the home. However, apart from recycling, consumers are significantly less likely to give up red meat, take public transportation, carpool and even buy environmentally friendly cleaning supplies.
Boomers have an elevated sense of urgency when it comes to the environment. They feel significantly more positive about their individual contribution maybe because of their elevated belief that global warming will impact them in their lifetime. That train of thought and thinking leads significantly greater action in recycling, reuse, and green clean product buying. This thinking translates into advocacy, as a quarter will convince friends to buy eco-friendly products when they ask my opinion on purchases.
However, not even they are more likely to take more public transportation, carpool or abstain from meat.
Even with all these initiatives around the environment, nearly half believe Global Warming won’t impact their generation or lifetime and 1/5 believe it is a sensationalized story by the media.
Recycling and reusing, why not?
Among those who don’t recycle, the biggest reason is difficulty where they live, simply forgetting and not knowing where to go to recycle. Nearly 4 in 10 don’t know why they don’t reuse more. Lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to reusing different products.
The biggest driver to product reuse is cost savings which is at parity with the positive environmental impact. A functional cost savings message tied with the positive impact on environment may most appeal when talking about reuse to consumers.
One very positive outcome is that nearly 90% of Americans would consider product reuse products if more education was done on the matter. In fact, a third of Boomers are ready to make a change to reuse products every chance they get if provided with the right information.
39% of all consumers will pay a little extra for environmentally friendly products
Earth Day
More than half didn’t know that April 22 is Earth Day. 44% of all consumers have no plans to do anything during Earth Day. However, among those who do know about earth day, almost seven in ten will participate in an earth day event. Most will participate in recycling or tree planting. A quarter will participate in an earth day event.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Yahoo Goes Green
Yahoo (YHOO) has been promoting green consumerism and info to Yahoo users for a while and reminds us of upcoming Earth Day April 22nd -
http://events.yahoo.com/earthday07/
Also- read about Yahoo' s committment to go carbon neutral
http://green.yahoo.com/carbonneutral
My personal favorite of Yahoo's info is the top 100 green car ratings for consumers to check out- http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center-top100/
As we all look at making a green choice in our next vehicle it is intersting to know that not all of the top ten are hybrids - for example the 2007 MINI Cooper is number 8
The Green Rating measures vehicles environmental friendliness from 1 to 100. The higher a vehicle's Green Rating, the "greener" it is , The Green Rating was developed in consultation with Environmental Defense, a leading environmental nonprofit
http://events.yahoo.com/earthday07/
Also- read about Yahoo' s committment to go carbon neutral
http://green.yahoo.com/carbonneutral
My personal favorite of Yahoo's info is the top 100 green car ratings for consumers to check out- http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center-top100/
As we all look at making a green choice in our next vehicle it is intersting to know that not all of the top ten are hybrids - for example the 2007 MINI Cooper is number 8
The Green Rating measures vehicles environmental friendliness from 1 to 100. The higher a vehicle's Green Rating, the "greener" it is , The Green Rating was developed in consultation with Environmental Defense, a leading environmental nonprofit
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