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GM’s Maven car-sharing reaches 1M miles driven in <4 months; Boston, Chicago, and DC joining lineup

Green Car Congress

In less than four months, Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand ( earlier post ), has grown to five markets: New York City, Ann Arbor, Mich., In Chicago, the Maven City car sharing program is now in operation, with pricing starting at $8 an hour including insurance and fuel.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. Starting out, fleets may want to mix high- and low-power DC fast charging to see which meets the needs of different duty cycles and routes. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5

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How ridesharing can help solve the challenge of urban EV ownership

Charged EVs

Revel aims to promote EV adoption in cities by solving two interrelated problems: The company’s rideshare fleet generates demand to justify the cost of installing DC fast chargers, and its charging Superhub ensures that the fleet stays charged, while also offering charging to the public. Q&A with Revel COO Paul Suhey.

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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. I talked with Rick Hutchinson, CEO City CarShare, at Meeting of the Minds.

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The lowly refuse truck offers the perfect use case for electrification

Charged EVs

A few years ago, finding that EV tech had advanced, Mack decided to build an electric truck for a long-time customer, the New York City Department of Sanitation. In New York City, it really hasn’t been their routes. If you think about New York, it’s all in a very dense area.