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Maven deploying its first all-electric shared-use fleet in Austin; 20 Chevy Bolts

Green Car Congress

Maven Gig vehicles are available for flat weekly rates that include the car, unlimited miles, insurance (minus deductibles) and maintenance. Maven Gig drivers have taken trips from San Francisco to Portland (~635 miles) and from San Diego to Los Angeles (~120 miles). Pricing starts at $229 per week plus taxes.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. San Jose, Calif. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. They tend to be used on regional rounds like the San Francisco-Los Angeles example I mentioned. Then, when I came over to the US, I got my pilot’s license.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

Creative Greenius

that’s the Chinatown movie star DWP, and for my buddy Richard up in San Francisco it’s PG&E. After graduating from San Diego State University in 1981, Scott began his career as the lead maintenance technician, in charge of the Natural Reserve System Research Facilities for the University of CA Riverside.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

And they have obviously been operating in San Francisco for a while. We have hundreds of them in different cities, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, New York, a lot of different locations. That’s actually quite helpful. I think they got approval for the city of LA. So these approvals are happening rapidly.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The customer will only pay a monthly fee about $240 (US Dollars) which includes a full maintenance service agreement; carbon offset payments and in some countries even all electricity used, and insurance. market b y the end of 2009. The transportation market is in the process of getting fragmented beyond all recognition.