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Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

Green Car Congress

That report further describes the health and environmental justice implications of coal-related pollution for residents in Richmond and in nearby Oakland, where a coal terminal proposal is currently under discussion. Resources Cite this article Ostro, B., 2023) “The impact of coal trains on PM2.5 in the San Francisco Bay area.”

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Uber reports success with Tesla rental program after 1 year

Teslarati

Trips completed by Hertz Tesla vehicles in San Francisco and Oakland during the weeks of November 21, 2021, and May 22, 2022, respectively. What do you think of the article? In turn, the program has prevented 19.9k metric tonnes of carbon emissions, or roughly 2.1 million gallons of gas, from being burned.

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The heavy-duty electric truck market could break out in 2024 – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck. Forum Mobility supplied four electric trucks and EVSE to Hight Logistics in Long Beach in 2023, and plans to open a depot with 90 truck charging points near the Port of Oakland this year.

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Stan Ovshinsky’s New Project

Revenge of the Electric Car

More details in the Detroit Free Press article: Panels may brighten job market. They have a small staff and are testing the product in Oakland County. ’ – is out of retirement and working with former business partner (and ex-GM head) Bob Stempel to develop solar panels. by Carol Cain.

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Electric-Car Dealerships Struggle, But Why Such Surprise?

Green Car Reports

A recent article in the Oakland Tribune highlights the high failure rate of independent car dealerships selling only electric vehicles. Frankly, we're not at all surprised.

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It's Got a Name: Chevrolet "Volt" Plug-in Hybrid

Plugs and Cars

With an Auto Show overview article dated tomorrow, Sunday, Jan 7, the New York Times becomes the first publication to name the much-anticipated GM plug-in hybrid vehicle. in Oakland, CA, the Volt might actually be a GM car people would buy. says the Volt, a plug-in hybrid, could deliver the equivalent of 150 miles a gallon.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif., An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. He says IEEE was the first to publish his articles. The article has been cited more than 20,000 times.