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Driverless ride-hailing increased significantly in San Francisco last year

Teslarati

Driverless ride-hailing is rapidly increasing in San Francisco, California, and recent data shows that it has continued to grow even after an incident involving a passenger with General Motors (GM) subsidiary Cruise.

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California Grants Cruise and Waymo Expansion Approval

The Truth About Cars

.& While public complaints seemed to be endangering the companies’ ability to expand operations, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted 3-to-1 on Thursday to do just that. This has also been the position of automotive and tech companies hoping to promote self-driving vehicles.

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Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA

Baua Electric

California, too, makes a prime location for the human-less fleet in that robotaxis are immune from receiving moving violations. The company also said that this month it would start testing its fully autonomous passenger cars without a human driver on freeways in Phoenix. It also is looking to expand to Austin.

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Molycorp to increase supply of rare earth materials to Hitachi Metals; the two call off US joint venture plans

Green Car Congress

Molycorp’s Mountain Pass facility (Project Phoenix). REO supply volume under the new agreement begins at a level comparable to the companies’ current agreement and grows substantially when Molycorp reaches its Phase 1 production level in 2012 at its flagship rare earth production facility at Mountain Pass, California.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

In California, there is a Low Carbon Fuel Standard program. So, I can go to the operators and say, “If we can show that our hydrogen comes from zero-emission sources, we can get the credit, pretty much offsetting the entire fuel costs in California today.”. And they’ve just extended it to aviation.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Headquarters: Phoenix, AZ Manufacturing: Phoenix, AZ and Northern California Deployment: Portland, Salem, Eugene and Corvallis, OR; Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; Phoenix and Tucson, AZ; Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, TN. Project locations. Technology. Electric Transportation Engineering Corp.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

Zeem is able to offer a cost per mile below that of diesel, thanks to California subsidies. This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. I started bringing these vehicles to fleets in New York, New Jersey and California. There are some areas of California where you can get really good power access.