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Tesla begins inviting 15,000 guests to ‘Cyber Rodeo’ at Gigafactory Texas

Teslarati

Tesla has officially started inviting the 15,000 guests to its “Cyber Rodeo” event at Gigafactory Texas on April 7, as CEO Elon Musk published a photo of a virtual invitation to the event last night. Tesla plans to hold the event on April 7 at 4 pm at its Gigafactory Texas facility. Credit: Joe Tegtmeyer/YouTube.

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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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Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

Blink Charging

Vehicle fleets across the United States are transitioning from internal combustion engine (ICE) to electric vehicles, and that includes school bus fleets. What makes school bus fumes especially dangerous is that they often end up making their way into the vehicle cabins , schoolyards and playgrounds, and residential neighborhoods.

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Urgent: Assemblymember Chris Holden Trying to Kill California’s 100% Renewable Climate Bill, #ChangeTheClimate, #SB100

Creative Greenius

Those impacts will hit home in all of California’s neighborhoods, affecting our already-stressed water supply, air quality, public health, coasts, fisheries, agricultural communities, power reliability, and many other issues. Autumn Burke – (916) 319-2062 – [link]. Phillip Chen – (916) 319-2055 – [link].

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Recap: Exhibiting at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo and Honoring Our Customers

EV Connect

Set amongst the backdrop of a bustling port community in Long Beach, the need for widespread clean fleet adoption was emphasized among the traditionally fueled truck-dominated highways surrounding the Expo, and their impact on the surrounding air and noise volume in the neighborhood. Demos of EV Connect’s Fleet Solution to Attendees.

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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

Green Car Congress

The 1 million test miles and more than 26,000 charging events have been accumulated in on-road operations across the United States and Canada. PHEV operations often occur with minimal pre-trip charge events – “they run even if not plugged in”. million charging events. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Oregon E.V.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

Last year’s winning projects were presented at the Connecting the Unconnected Summit , a virtual event held in November. The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico.