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BMW launches ParkNow mobile parking service; more details on DriveNow electric car-sharing service

Green Car Congress

Stations are located around the city, close to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), Muni (San Francisco Municipal Railway) and bike-sharing stations, as well as at San Francisco International Airport, Oakland International Airport and in Palo Alto. San Francisco serves as the initial US market for each service.

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Hyundai’s hydrogen big picture goes way beyond cars and trucks

Baua Electric

it’s playing a role in the establishment of federally-funded hydrogen hubs, and at the Port of Oakland in California it’s testing 30 Hyundai Xcient hydrogen fuel-cell semis. while the BMW iX5 is currently being fleet-tested. Hyundai is already testing Waste-to-Hydrogen in Indonesia. In the U.S.,

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MyCityWay integrated with BMW’S DriveNow EV sharing fleet in San Francisco

Green Car Congress

DriveNow is a premium car sharing service launched by BMW is San Francisco last summer. The DriveNow fleet currently consists of 70 fully-electric ActiveE vehicles located at ten DriveNow stations around the San Francisco Bay Area, including hubs serving the Silicon Valley, SFO and Oakland International Airports.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). tons of carbon dioxide. Business of Green B.T.W.

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