Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2022

Firestone is rolling out expanded services for EV and hybrid drivers at certain service centers, as well as EV charging, parent Bridgestone announced Tuesday in a press release.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

Tomorrow, Chrysler Group LLC will present 14 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to the City of San Francisco as part of a three-year evaluation program. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2015

Over the past few months, the Toyota Prius range of hybrid cars has received significant discounts to keep sales up as the lineup ages and gas prices remain low. In the San Francisco area, the Prius V is getting a regional discount of $4,000. DON'T MISS.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2012

It’s a novel idea, and its time has come, thanks to on-demand car service startup Uber, which will soon start offering patrons a hybrid vehicle option for more affordable come-and-fetch-me rides. Uber is the San Francisco-based startup that makes mobile applications for requesting.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2015

A San Francisco driver captured video of what appears to be a camouflaged Prius prototype on one of the city's typically hilly streets. We've tracked down another video of the upcoming, all-new 2016 Toyota Prius testing on public roads.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In the past 15 years, the city of San Francisco has doubled the numbers of taxi cabs on its streets, up from 750 vehicles in 1997 to 1,500 this year.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2021

Amazon adds San Francisco to the big-city regions now using Rivian electric delivery trucks. We get some follow-up time driving the Honda CR-V Hybrid. And those seeking a speedy charge while shopping have a new option in the Midwest. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Electric accessories: Accessory Power System options can power all conventional electric loads, such as cooling fans and pumps, plus all hybrid cooling systems. BAE Systems’ Series-ER technology is powering more than 200 buses across the globe, including major cities such as Brighton, Boston and San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

FCA US LLC announced an agreement to supply “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid minivans ( earlier post ) to Waymo to support the launch of its driverless ride-hailing service. FCA previously delivered 100 Pacifica Hybrid minivans, adapted for self-driving, to Waymo during the second half of 2016 and an additional 500 in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Coca-Cola is converting all of its newly purchased 2014 Chevrolet Express service vans into fuel-efficient hybrid-electric vehicles using XL Hybrids’ powertrain technology. The latest version of the XL Hybrids system features an inline traction motor delivering 40 kW, along with a 1.8 Earlier post.) kWh Li-ion battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2022

BMW eDrive Zones is a digital service designed to ease drivers of plug-in hybrid vehicles’ access into city areas designated as zero-emissions zones. When it enters one of these zones, a BMW Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle will switch to fully-electric driving mode automatically (provided the battery is sufficiently charged).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2013

Ford expects to double hybrid vehicle production as companies procure Fusion and C-MAX hybrids for their company fleets, and as model year market share, according to R.L. In the first quarter of 2013, Ford sold 10,266 Fusion hybrids and 8,511 C-MAX hybrids. Polk, has grown 13% since 2012.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Ford’s new C-MAX Hybrid ( earlier post ) sold 3,182 units in October in its first full month of sales, outselling the Prius v’s 2,769 units. The C-MAX Hybrid also led Ford in achieving its best October hybrid sales month ever with a total of 4,612 sales, up 142% over October 2011.

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared his thoughts about an incident involving a driverless Cruise robotaxi in San Francisco. Interestingly enough, this is not the first time that a Cruise robotaxi caused some inconvenience in San Francisco. Cruise robotaxis were also spotted driving through caution tape during a storm.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Statue Cruises has signed an agreement with Derecktor Shipyards in Bridgeport, CT to complete a hybrid ferry by April 2011. The new 1,400-horsepower Hornblower Hybrid will run on a combination of energy generated by Tier 2 diesel engines, hydrogen fuel cells, solar panels and wind turbines. Rendering of the Hornblower hybrid ferry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

The Hertz Corporation, which includes the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands, has expanded of its Green Traveler Collection car rental fleet to include the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid ( earlier post ) in select cities across the US. All of the Green Traveler cars have fuel efficiency ratings starting at 33+ highway mpg.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 2, 2018

It's been two and a half years since we drove the plug-in hybrid version of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan at its San Francisco launch event. It took a while for the car to go on sale in the U.S., which it did in January 2017.

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Teslarati

APRIL 7, 2024

percent yearly decrease on average, according to the study’s Lead Researcher and Professor, Executive Associate Dean at Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science and Society, Ronald Cohen in a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. “If The data shows a gradual decline in carbon dioxide emissions, representing a 1.8-percent

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Ford’s changing share of the hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid electric, battery-electric vehicle segments and total ED market in the US in 2012 and YTD 2013. share of the conventional hybrid market in the US (434,645 total units sold, according to EDTA, with Ford accounting for 32,660). Data: EDTA, Ford Motor. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 20, 2024

seconds MPG: 21 city/29 highway/24 combined Small displacement, but dual power R/T Plus – Plug-in-Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) 1.3-liter, Hybrid is the default mode to maximize efficiency and driving range. The negative was the exhaust note (when in hybrid mode), which was too loud and quickly became tiresome.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

While the number of available hybrid models in the US will also increase this year, Polk anticipates only a slight improvement in this category from its current level of approximately 2.9% Wide regional variation in hybrid and electric powertrains. of the overall market. of all new vehicle registrations. Total LDV reg. Top 15 DMAs.

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JULY 9, 2014

The public agencies receiving vehicles are: Alameda County, Sonoma County, San Francisco, Concord, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Oakland, Fremont, the Marin Municipal Water District, and Sonoma County Water Agency. The Transportation Authority of Marin also participated with additional support for the Marin Municipal Water District.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The projects range from electric locomotives, trucks and refrigeration trailers at railyards in Stockton and San Bernardino, to a hybrid tugboat and electric cranes and forklifts at the Port of Long Beach. million to deploy four fuel cell hybrid electric delivery vans for UPS for a minimum 12-month demonstration project in Chino.

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EV Central

JULY 5, 2023

But it turns out there is one machine that becomes insanely frightening as soon as it exceeds walking speeds – a self-driving taxi, or AV (Autonomous Vehicle) as the cool folks in San Francisco, for whom they are already a way of life, refer to them. Because America.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

DHL will roll out the first 30 NGEN-1000 electric delivery cargo vans in the San Francisco Bay Area. These new vehicles add to the company’s already robust alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet, which includes fully electric, hybrid-electric, compressed natural gas (CNG) and clean diesel. payload with 1,000 ft 3 cargo space.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The company has more than 10,000 electric-hybrid systems on transit buses and marine vessels around the globe, including major cities such as Paris, London, New York, and San Francisco. BAE Systems has 20-plus years of experience developing and integrating electric propulsion systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

Further emphasizing its push towards production-ready piloted driving, Audi is showcasing a piloted driving version of its prologue concept hybrid—unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2014—at 2015 CES. The hybrid powertrain has a muscular 4.0 Earlier post.) TFSI V-8 working together with a powerful e-motor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

Hertz is the first car-rental company to deploy EVs and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric) on three continents—in the US (available to the public in New York, Washington, DC and San Francisco); the UK (London) and now Italy in Europe; and China (Shenzhen).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place. These typically range from $1,000 to $3,000 per battery electric vehicle in most states, and they are typically about half as much for plug-in hybrid vehicles due to their lesser all-electric driving capability.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

San Francisco is to introduce a new building code which require all new domestic and commercial buildings to have the wiring for electric car chargers. Tags: Electric cars building code California hybrid planning San Fransisco. The move is seen by many as the Californian city attempt to become America’s green car capital.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

62 EV street sweepers will eventually be shipped to these areas after the proprietary electric and hybrid-electric propulsion kits from both Ideanomics and its subsidiary U.S. Hybrid were supplied to GEP. Two will go to the City of South San Francisco, three to Washington D.C., and two to Helena, Montana, Ideanomics said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

—Julie Johnson, Lightning Systems’ enterprise business development manager, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. All vehicles under the contract are eligible for special funding via the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Hybrid and Zero Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP).

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If this is appealing, then the 2022 Pacifica plug-in hybrid (PHEV) is what you are looking for. The 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid has a gasoline-powered 3.6-liter The 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid has a gasoline-powered 3.6-liter The EPA rates fuel economy, when using the hybrid gasoline-only engine at 30 miles per gallon.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 25, 2011

New York City, maybe, or San Francisco. That's just what Ford has done with its hybrid vehicles, first the Escape Hybrid crossover and more. If you want to wring out your new car and test exactly how durable it is, never mind taking it to Death Valley or testing above the Arctic Circle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

In an event in San Francisco, Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, outlined several collaborative research efforts on next-generation battery technology for non-hybrid vehicles. Ford suggested the dual battery system might go into production soon. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

BAE Systems announced that its HybriDrive series hybrid electric propulsion system has more than 3,500 units delivered or ordered worldwide. The HybriDrive series hybrid electric system consists of a diesel-powered generator, an electric motor, and an energy storage system. Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash.,

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