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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

Green Car Congress

Another three are on the West Coast and in Hawaii: Seattle (4), Portland (5), and Honolulu (6). Illinois provides a $4,000 state tax incentive for purchases and reduced registration fees. Texas is planning to offer a $2,500 state rebate for EV purchases. —Erik Gottfried, Nissan director of EV Sales and Marketing.

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Ride-sharer Grab to invest $700M in “Grab 4 Indonesia” 2020 master plan

Green Car Congress

To equip Indonesian engineers with globally competitive skills, Grab will provide training opportunities at its R&D centers in Singapore, Beijing and Seattle. Since its launch in 2012, Grab has evolved from a simple app for booking a taxi into the largest ground transportation app in Southeast Asia.

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Berkeley TSRC study quantifies VMT and GHG benefits of car2go car-sharing in North America

Green Car Congress

The five cities were Calgary, San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. A majority of members use public transit less frequently; walk more frequently; use taxis less frequently; and have a range of impacts on other modes. Among the key takeways of the study were that, first, car2go has a diverse impact on travel behavior.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing. Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. According to Navigant Research, it’s not going to change soon.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. The project also includes construction of a B20 station.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. Sure, 2x more people live within Seattle city limits than in all of Iceland’s huge expanses. Personally we will likely make our first outright purchase of an EV this year, after serially leasing 4.5 Looking at you Tesla.

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