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Tesla-Hertz partnership expands to sixteen new cities

Teslarati

Initially, Hertz made its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles available in Atlanta, GA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, Orlando, FL, San Francisco, CA, and Washington D.C. Now, sixteen new cities are being added to the company’s locations that have Teslas available for rent : Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

&# may recall it was a little more complicated than that… The first five states where the Leaf will be available are: California, Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. Advertisement.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

Cars That Think

In 1967 he left the startup and joined the Fairchild R&D Laboratory, in San Jose, Calif. After earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. He took a leave of absence from 1959 to 1962 to conduct research at Stanford 's Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory.

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Which US cities are the greenest?

Green Cars News

Eight of the top 10 cities on the list can be found in just three states - Oregon, California and Washington - as the Pacific North West continues to show the greatest eco-conscious. Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo, California. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California. Seattle-Tacoma, Washington.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", See our frequent comments at our news archive. Bloomberg News ). San Jose Mercury News ).

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Arnold Flexing for Flex-Fuels; Fouls Air & Guzzles More Gasoline

Plugs and Cars

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past. Of course I'm speaking of electricity.

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