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New LA electric car sharing program for disadvantaged communities; Bolloré BlueLA

Green Car Congress

The BlueLA EV car share program puts California’s cap and trade dollars to work to not only help meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance the EV goals in my Sustainable City pLAn, it brings new transportation options to neighborhoods that need them. —Mayor Garcetti.

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What Does Henry Waxman Know About Climate That Made Him Quit?

Creative Greenius

But your friendly neighborhood Greenuis still has plenty of juju and mojo to keep me going for whatever comes next. Filed under: carbon producers , climate change , Community Activists , electric cars , environment , environmental legislation , Environmental Politics , fossil fuels , renewable energy Tagged: Creative Greenius , Henry Waxman.

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California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

Green Car Congress

The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. Earlier post.).

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First EVs in new car-sharing program with Envoy to roll out in Sacramento; 142 e-Golfs by early 2019; Sac-to-Zero

Green Car Congress

The first of hundreds of electric car-sharing vehicles coming to Sacramento, California as part of Electrify America’s $44-million investment in the City will be unveiled tomorrow at the Whispering Pines Apartments in Meadowview. Residents of the complex will be able to rent the cars on a per-minute, per-hour or daily basis.

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California announces it will ban the sale of New Gasoline Cars

Setec Powerr

CARB also estimates that as more zero-emission vehicles become available, the price to consumers of electric cars will fall. Ensuring access to charging stations is also key to ramping up electric vehicle sales. This landmark California regulation will reshape the entire U.S.

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CARB adopts electric truck rule: Advanced Clean Trucks

Green Car Congress

Many California neighborhoods—especially communities of color, low-income and vulnerable communities—live, work, play and attend schools adjacent to the ports, railyards, distribution centers, and freight corridors and experience the heaviest truck traffic.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

Ed Kjaer, the director of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, demonstrates how the Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle or MiEV plugs into their Garage of the Future at their Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Photo by Eric Tom). By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.