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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

The California mix for 2021 was interesting, with many of a few vehicles and a few of many. California, the original home of Tesla—and many of the start-ups like Lucid and Rivian that are beginning to contribute to the growth of EVs—leads the way in plug-in car registrations. Behind the Numbers. The Role of Rebates.

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QOTD: Where Do You Do Your Carspotting?

The Truth About Cars

I am currently in Napa, California on business and while myself and some other media members rode in a Ford Expedition from the airport to the hotel, we kept spotting some pretty cool rides. Personally, I just keep my eyes peeled. In other words, you don't have to be in an exclusive ZIP code to see cool stuff. While traveling?

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Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Set Ablaze By Crowd In San Francisco

The Truth About Cars

Autonomous vehicles don’t have the best track record when it comes to earning and keeping public trust, even in tech-forward California. The Alphabet-owned company said a crowd used fireworks to set the Jaguar I-Pace on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. Others jumped on the car, and then dozens of people joined the melee.

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Los Angeles launches New Mobility Challenge 2018

Green Car Congress

The LA New Mobility Challenge 2018 is a joint initiative of LA CoMotion, the NewCities Foundation and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), all of whom are dedicated to finding cutting-edge and sustainable mobility technologies for Southern California.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

Green Car Congress

With 75% of the fleet expected to serve low-income and disadvantaged communities, Envoy provides equitable transportation for drivers running personal errands, as well those looking to participate in the gig economy and generate income that is 30% higher than the minimum wage. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Many were covered in detail during a day of presentations and site visits for partners and media held this past August in Ontario, California.

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Elon Musk’s sale of Gene Wilder’s Bel-Air home paints a remarkable story

Teslarati

Back in 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he would be offloading all his residential properties in California as a way to trim down his possessions. But while he was in the neighborhood one day with his wife, the filmmaker was pleasantly surprised to see the house still standing. And so four months of negotiations started.

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