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Hertz adds 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to rental fleet

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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. Additionally, the company currently has 15 solar locations, with projected growth to 20 by 2016.

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The ICCT: Nearly half of the world’s EVs are in 25 cities; China leads the way

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Global electric vehicle sales increased by more than 50% from 2016 to about 1.2 The top 25 electric vehicle markets have, on average, about 24 times the available charging per capita as elsewhere. However, the report notes, charging availability varies greatly among leading markets. Source: The ICCT.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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charging infrastructure incentives, preferential charging rates), and public charging availability. The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place.

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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Peter Slowik and Nic Lutsey analyze the connections among various state and local policies; public and workplace charging infrastructure; consumer incentives; model availability; and the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric (both fully electric and plug-in hybrid). New vehicle registration data from IHS Automotive.)

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California ARB receives VW’s 1st $200M, 30-month ZEV investment plan

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On 25 October 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California approved a proposed 2.0-liter One of these—Appendix C—requires VW to invest $800 million in California over a 10-year period to support the increased use and availability of ZEVs. liter Consent Decree. Background.

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U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

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The collaboration was announced this week in San Jose at the second annual OpenPOWER Summit 2016. The recent acceleration in computational power and measurement resolution has made possible the availability of extreme scale simulations and data sets.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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million annually in 2016 to $36.6 The driver is expected to be available for occasional control, but with sufficiently comfortable transition time. Such a design anticipates that the driver will provide destination or navigation input, but is not expected to be available for control at any time during the trip. billion by 2025.

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