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LADOT wins $2M grant for DTLA “Code the Curb” pilot

Green Car Congress

—Mayor Karen Bass LADOT is charged with managing the public right of way to facilitate the safe movement of goods and people throughout the City of Los Angeles. Personal identifying information such as license plates or images of persons is excluded from data collection.

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bp invests in free local electric transit business Freebee

Green Car Congress

bp ventures has invested $6 million in all-electric ride-hailing business Freebee , a Miami-based company that provides free, on-demand transportation to local communities through their mobile app Ride Freebee. Freebee owns a fleet of more than 150 electric vehicles and employs more than 230 drivers on a full-time basis.

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Walmart pilot-testing grocery deliveries with Uber, Lyft and Deliv

Green Car Congress

This is in addition to a quiet Sam’s Club pilot that started in March with Deliv involving delivery of general merchandise and grocery for business members in Miami. The customer pays the normal $7-10 delivery charge online, and makes no payment to the driver. A customer will places a grocery order online and select a delivery window.

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Audi launches premium vehicle-sharing service exclusively for residents of select properties

Green Car Congress

LUMINA by Tishman Speyer, San Francisco’s largest luxury condominium project currently under construction, will be the first residential community on the West Coast to offer the service, while the Four Seasons Residences in Miami will offer the service on the East Coast. Rates are charged either hourly or daily.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). In the U.S.

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How Federal and State Government Incentives Make It Easy to Become an EV Owner

Blink Charging

Must have undergone final assembly in North America. Must not exceed a manufacturer suggested retail price (MSRP) of: $80,000 for vans, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), crossovers, and pickup trucks $55,000 for all other vehicle types. The EV or Plug-In Hybrid EV (PHEV) must have an external charging source.

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Review: 2024 Fiat 500e urban EV has its charm

Baua Electric

We drove the 500e through Miami traffic for three hours last week, giving us a chance to sample one of its strong points: quick cut-and-thrust urban driving. Miami is entirely flat and remarkably congested. The more likely home charging via an 11-kw Level 2 station takes six hours for a charge from 0 to 100 percent.

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