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Bosch and Daimler: San Jose to become pilot city for automated on-demand ride-hailing service; SAE Level 4/5

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Bosch and Daimler announced that San Jose, the third biggest city in California, is planned to be the pilot city for trials, targeted to begin during the second half of 2019, of the highly and fully automated driving (SAE Level 4/5) on-demand ride-hailing service recently announced by the two companies. Earlier post.)

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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. Hertz believes it has one of the most fuel-efficient rental fleets in the industry.

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NEVS and AutoX to collaborate on large-scale RoboTaxi deployment in Europe

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For AutoX, the partnership follows an important milestone of becoming the second company to be permitted by the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a RoboTaxi pilot program and launching their service xTaxi immediately thereafter (in the 95054 and 95134 areas of north San Jose/Santa Clara).

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

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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. The base regional unit for the study was the metropolitan statistical area (MSA).

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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 Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento). liter Consent Decree. Background. Green City.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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million annually in 2016 to $36.6 Advanced planning is already occurring in Singapore, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley cities from San Francisco to San Jose. Feature: New Autonomous Cars & Connected Mobility The post Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. billion by 2025.

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ICCT analysis of California top EV cities finds link between EV uptake and many underlying factors

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outreach events, informational websites; electric car sharing services; and government and fleet programs) and median income in each city to be correlated significantly with new electric vehicle sales share. These vehicle markets range greatly in size, from hundreds of electric vehicle sales up to approximately 4,000 (San Jose).

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