Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

The USDOT has pledged up to $40 million (funding subject to future appropriations) to one city to help it define what it means to be a “Smart City “and become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors—into their transportation network.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

The affected vehicles will also qualify for an extended warranty in connection with the software update. 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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

Further emphasizing its push towards production-ready piloted driving, Audi is showcasing a piloted driving version of its prologue concept hybrid—unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2014—at 2015 CES. An online connection routes this data to a cloud?based Earlier post.) The hybrid powertrain has a muscular 4.0

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

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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Cars That Think

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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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

When including rental car data, Uber grew from 8% in Q2 of 2014 to 31% in Q2 of 2015. Top cities for Uber customers, based on percentage of receipts, are San Francisco (79%), followed by Dallas (60%) and Los Angeles (54%). High online connectivity and smartphone penetration too have fast tracked the use of P2P carsharing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

These new projects will accelerate a statewide hydrogen refueling station network that will support the commercial launch of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in 2015 and boost the installation of electric vehicle chargers along highway corridors and in workplaces.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The MEB will be the foundation for an entirely new generation of battery-electric vehicles designed not only to be electric and feature extended range, but to be connected, autonomous, open and priced for the volume market as required by Volkswagen’s positioning. Connectivity is one of the ineluctable trends of the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

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. That’s where Ford Smart Mobility comes in.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

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. Data scientists and AI specialists from Volkswagen have successfully programmed an algorithm to optimize the travel time of all public taxis in the city.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP. According to a new report from Navigant Research, worldwide revenue from connected vehicle systems is expected to grow from $96.3 Cars will drive themselves and connect with others. billion by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

South San Francisco Bay Area. Additional “connector” and “destination” stations in cities like Sacramento, Long Beach, Santa Barbara and San Diego were to connect the clusters into a regional network while serving as the nuclei for subsequent markets, according to the roadmap. These cluster communities are: Berkeley.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

tops the list of gridlock-plagued cities, with 82 hours of delay per commuter, followed by Los Angeles (80 hours), San Francisco (78 hours), New York (74 hours), and San Jose (67 hours). last year, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Houston and Riverside, CA. Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

—Cliff Fietzek, Manager Connected eMobility at BMW of North America. 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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

In 2015 Lyft reported that half of its San Francisco trips were carpools.). While the concept of carpooling has been around for decades, it’s only in the last two years that services like Uber and Lyft have leveraged smartphone data in a way that has made ride-sharing a cheap, convenient option. (In

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2015

The coast-to-coast trip will launch near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on 22 March and will cover approximately 3,500 miles. Autonomous driving Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Sensors Vehicle Systems'

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2009

A powerful roster of key industry players in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle arena will come together at Infocast’s Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility in San Francisco, California. A key goal of the Obama administration is to have one million ‘PHEVs’ or a fully electric vehicle on the road by 2015.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar. Lyft claims it is the fastest-growing ride share service and is available in 190 cities worldwide.

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Honda’s Ben Knight said the Japanese carmaker will enter the market with its FCV in 2015, long after current project managers are gone. Utilities were well-represented with presentations touting the benefits grid-connected cars offer in reduced emissions, lower cost and load leveling.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. Consumer electronics can also be connected directly and used from the interior accessory socket (AC 100 V, 1,500 W). Earlier post.

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We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. Oleg: Well, I would like to focus on positives, and the positive that I saw in the draft of the bill is that money is going to be directed to connected, smart and interoperable infrastructure. It’s a must.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It requires improved public transit and rail service, powered by zero or near-zero technologies, and improved connectivity among vehicle modes. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard will reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by at least 10% in 2020, and fuels will come under California’s Cap-and-Trade program in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. CALSTART, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

We are suggesting that the variation in power and energy from renewable sources can be managed much more easily and economically with the batteries in PHEVs when they are plugged into the grid with a low power connection. Only the PHEV can share energy with the grid without stranding the driver.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Rebecca Fisher at the Paris Climate Accords In 2015. Sustainability for all Moving to San Francisco, Fisher spent 2 years working at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District focusing on the Clean Cars for All program. It also solidified in my mind the important connections between climate mitigation and public health.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

One of approximately twenty VW Golf blue e-motion prototypes under test in the United States, with Eaton’s 50kW DC Quick Charger, at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory, near San Francisco. ERL teams also test and validate navigation and connectivity systems. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. The huge hill of used batteries represents a major problem with the toxic acid and lead inside.

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