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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. Ford SmartMobility/Chariot –Time for Spin? vRide Ridesharing to work carries more people each day than transit.

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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

Green Car Congress

One would create new corridors for world-class high-speed rail; the other would involve making train service along existing rail lines incrementally faster. Pacific Northwest Corridor (Eugene, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver BC). Northern New England Corridor (Boston, Montreal, Portland, Springfield, New Haven, Albany).

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?”