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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Source: “Europe’s giant ‘taxi’ company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?”. In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). This has made Uber one of the biggest taxi services in Europe, with 3.6

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JULY 11, 2018

state residents did not see the benefits of improved air quality from presumed reductions in harmful co-pollutants, such as particulate matter— according to a new study led by UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University researchers. The impact on these communities could be severe and long-lasting, the authors said. 1002604.

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MARCH 30, 2017

a shared mobility company, to expand its digital mobility solutions and services. The two companies have worked together since 2012, developing and delivering innovative consumer mobility offerings under the Audi mobility, Silvercar and Dealerware brands. In 2015, Audi led in a $28 million Series C investment in Silvercar.

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MARCH 1, 2019

The company, which celebrates its fourth birthday this month, aims to become the world’s safest and largest child transportation provider. m’s business model and increase school partnerships throughout the country as the company works to double its footprint by the 2019-2020 school year. The new funding will be used to expand Z?m’s

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The switch from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel took place in the beginning of October 2015. Earlier this year, the City of San Francisco announced it will switch all of its diesel fleet to renewable diesel by the end of this year. Oakland is the first major US city to convert their entire fleet to renewable diesel.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

In a post on the company blog, Tesla Motors outlined the areas addressed with an upcoming a Roadster 3.0 Tesla will demonstrate this in the real world during a non-stop drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the early weeks of 2015. upgrade, based on learnings from the Model S. The prototype Roadster 3.0

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

BMW i3, BMW i8 and iPerformance owners in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area who are Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customers are invited to apply for participation in a 24-month program focused on managed EV and PHEV charging. BMW was the first to showcase this technology in a real-world application.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

“While we strongly believe that these facts don’t justify the verdict reached by the jury in San Francisco, we do recognize that in 2015 and 2016 we were not perfect. The company wrote: “On October 4, 2021, in a case captioned Diaz v. We’re still not perfect.

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MAY 14, 2013

Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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JULY 10, 2019

OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. San Jose, Calif. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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Tesla has officially challenged the $137 million settlement in the case of Owen Diaz, a contract worker who won a lawsuit against the electric automaker where he alleged racial discrimination occurred at the company’s Fremont factory in Northern California. The company wrote: “On October 4, 2021, in a case captioned Diaz v.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

In the spring of 2015, San Francisco became the world’s first location for the premium mobility service. The service is billed on an hourly basis, with no mileage cap. The Audi on demand selection consists mostly of new products from the brand that have only recently made their debuts.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The company presented these results at the recent ISSCC2014 in San Francisco. After developing receiver functionality (by end 2014), imec aims at building a complete multi-antenna lab prototype by the end of 2015. Imec welcomes industrial and academic partners for joint R&D.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The environmental impact of replacing 143 million gallons of diesel fuel with RNG is the equivalent of reducing 745,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—also equal to planting 12 million trees, or removing 158,000 cars off the road, or reducing 260,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, the company said.

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JUNE 24, 2015

In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Ford CEO Mark Fields at 2015 Further with Ford. Click to enlarge. —Mark Fields.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates, in San Jose, Calif., Before starting his own company, Coughlin held senior leadership positions at Ampex, Micropolis, and SyQuest. which provides market and technology analysis as well as data storage, memory technology, and business consulting services.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

federal and state authorities FCA maintains its position that the Company did not engage in any deliberate scheme to install defeat devices to cheat emissions tests. The settlements are now lodged with the San Francisco division of the United States District Court, North District of California, where they await judicial approval.

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JUNE 8, 2016

a next generation biofuels company, to enable the first commercial flights using a blend of petroleum based fuel and Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ). The two flights were Alaska Airlines flight 2 from Seattle (SEA) to Washington DC (IAD) and flight 388 from Seattle to San Francisco (SFO), both on 7 June.

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MAY 25, 2016

Since launching in August 2015, Scoop commuters have taken more than 40,000 trips, offsetting nearly 500,000 in commute mileage for riders. Originally launched in Pleasanton, CA, Scoop now also operates commute trips into San Francisco, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and North San Jose.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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JULY 22, 2023

The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. Prisms VR Founded 2020 Headquarters San Francisco Founder Anarupa Ganguly “Prisms VR’s learning platform,” Ganguly says, “is taking problems from textbooks and bringing them to life.”

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APRIL 1, 2015

Honda has begun testing of its automated and connected vehicle technology at the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Honda will offer rearview cameras as standard equipment on all model year 2015 Honda and Acura vehicles. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The 2015 e-Golf will go on sale later this year at participating dealerships in select states. The Audi A3 Sportback e-tron is expected to go on sale at participating dealerships in all 50 states in the fall of 2015. —Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time.

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JULY 17, 2015

Travel and expense management company Certify’s Q2 analysis on business expense trends found that Uber, the popular ridesharing service, continues to grow with business travelers, comprising 55% of ground transportation receipts compared with taxi services at 43%. million in 2014 to reach 9.8 Uber ascendant.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

All three companies are making a significant investment to achieve the goal of nearly 100 fast charging ports by the end of 2015. All maps from DOE AFDC , with data as of 22 Jan 2015. and on the west coast covering and connecting the metropolitan areas of Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

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MAY 24, 2011

These vehicles will be leased to 20 agencies, including the Department of Energy, and will be located in Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; and San Francisco, CA. As the pilot progresses, other companies may bid to become eligible for future purchases. GSA purchase.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell sedan ( earlier post ) made its North American debut at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show as Honda announced additional details for the vehicle’s entry into the US market.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Dynegy, along with Enron and several other energy companies, was accused of energy price manipulation during the California electricity crisis that began in May 2000. . $100 million from the settlement will fund the fast-charging stations and the installation of the plug-in units and electrical upgrades. paid Blackstone $1.36

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JULY 29, 2015

Solazyme, headquartered in San Francisco, produces a blended fuel made from microalgae and other renewable feedstocks. To achieve by 2017 a cumulative billion miles of package or freight movement in our alternative fuel/technology truck fleet that we expect will number over 7,700 trucks by the end of 2015. trillion.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Volkswagen Group IT is cooperating with leading quantum computing company D-Wave Systems on a research project for traffic flow optimization. In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing.

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JUNE 21, 2016

In 2015, NextEra, the leading American energy producer and distributor of clean energy, signed the largest contract in automotive history for the delivery of 20 MWh of Battery 2nd Life automotive batteries.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW announced the BMW i ChargeForward Program—a pilot study to be undertaken by the BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). BMW will begin accepting applications at www.bmwichargeforward.com in January, and the program will kick off in July 2015.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business. —Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company president and CEO. Earlier this month, the company introduced Ford Smart Mobility at the 2015 International CES. Maciuca holds a Ph.D. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

CODA Automotive, a California-based, US-engineered electric car and battery company, is now accepting deposits for its 100% electric, four-door, five-passenger electric sedan. Drivers can now reserve a CODA with a fully-refundable $499 deposit at www.codaautomotive.com. Powered by a 33.8

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Before starting his own company, Coughlin held senior leadership positions in Ampex , Micropolis , and SyQuest. He was vice president of operations and planning for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and served as general chair of the 2011 Sections Congress in San Francisco. He has been granted six patents.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

In that case, the company can also seek approval of an emissions modification plan to substantially reduce emissions and, if approved, can offer that as an additional option for generation 2 vehicles. If after extensive testing the solution does not perform as expected and is not approved, Volkswagen must offer to buy back the vehicles.

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