The Truth About Cars

JULY 19, 2023

But this is the same line they fed Congress in 2016, backed by assurances that the systems would be broadly available by the mid-2000s.& From AN : Cruise won approval to charge for its robotaxi rides in parts of San Francisco last summer and has since begun testing the service in Phoenix, Ariz., and several cities in Texas.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

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. including Atlanta, San Francisco, Metro Detroit, Phoenix and Kirkland, Washington. Earlier post.) Waymo has officially tested its technology in 25 cities across the US.,

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APRIL 3, 2019

The True Zero Network of stations spans from San Diego, throughout Orange County, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and out to Santa Barbara and Lake Tahoe.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Honda also announced that the platform underpinning the Clarity Fuel Cell will also serve as the foundation for a next-generation Honda plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) that will launch nationwide by 2018, with more than triple the 13-mile all-electric range of the Accord Plug-In Hybrid Sedan.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The True Zero Network of stations spans from San Diego, throughout Orange County, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and out to Santa Barbara and Lake Tahoe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

This same concept is applied in the AcuraWatch safety and driver-assistive suite available on all model year 2016 Acura sedans and SUVs. The vehicle will be tested by Honda Research Institute USA at GoMentum Station, a 5,000-acre automated and connected vehicle proving ground in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL customers ventured beyond Southern California last week for the first time, while only filling up at existing public hydrogen stations along the route from Los Angeles to San Francisco. More than 40 public retail hydrogen stations are planned to be opened in 2016. million kilometers).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2017

Fuel consumption reached record highs in 2016. Booster has become a highly sought-after perk at more than 300 large employers including Cisco, Oracle, Gilead, eBay, PepsiCo, Facebook, as well as most of the Fortune 100 companies based in Booster’s two current service regions: the Dallas-Fort Worth and San Francisco Bay areas.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Effect of air cooling on capacity fade and battery life when annual miles driven are 14,700 miles. b) Capacity Fade in Phoenix and San Francisco, using GPS data. Air cooling can increase battery life by a factor of 1.5–6, 6, depending on regional climate and driving patterns, they found. Credit: ACS, Yuksel et al.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

GM encouraged owners to limit their state of charge to 90% and avoid depleting their battery below 70 miles of remaining range when possible. A parking lot in San Francisco is one example. FEMA stated that 171,500 vehicle fires occurred annually on average between 2014 and 2016. .” So far, GM has spent $1.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Auto Show, Honda said that it will begin retail leasing of the new 5-passenger, hydrogen-powered Clarity Fuel Cell sedan ( earlier post ) to customers in select California markets before the end of 2016. Honda expects to price the Clarity Fuel Cell at around $60,000 with a targeted monthly lease under $500.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

My roughly 60-mile section was marked by sienna-hued mesas and buttes, and cornflower-blue skies. Inside the common area — a large tent that acts as a front desk, restaurant, snack bar and hang out — a couple from San Francisco with a dachshund had just finished registering. By 3:30 p.m., Where are the stars?

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MARCH 14, 2016

The finalists are: Austin, TX; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Kansas City, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA. The winning city will be announced in June 2016. The Department developed the Smart City Challenge as a response to the trends identified in the Beyond Traffic draft report.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

The prototype has consistently delivered a driving range of about 300 miles (~500 km), zero-to-sixty acceleration of about 10 seconds, with no emissions other than water vapor. In those 11 years—and more than a million miles—it has significantly reduced the cost of building a fuel cell powertrain. —Bob Carter.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS has previously announced a goal of driving one billion miles with our alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017. Solazyme, headquartered in San Francisco, produces a blended fuel made from microalgae and other renewable feedstocks. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1%

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Although the EPA has not as of this writing released the final fuel economy numbers for the US A3 e-tron, Filip Brabec, Director, Product Management, Audi of America, said that the figures will be around 83 to 86 MPGe combined (depending on the equipment level), with 35 to 39 mpg gasoline only and 16-17 miles of EV range.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Starting in 2016, the Swedish brand has included plug-in hybrid versions of pretty much every new vehicle it sells in the US. . Where it falls down is its EPA-rated range: a mere 208 miles. We logged energy consumption at 41 kWh per 100 miles. That wouldn’t provide even 200 miles of range. Introducing Polestar.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

million annually in 2016 to $36.6 Google has racked up a million autonomous vehicle miles. Advanced planning is already occurring in Singapore, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley cities from San Francisco to San Jose. From Shanghai to Singapore to Silicon Valley, you will see these services sooner than most forecast.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

Nissan has provided 10 all-electric Nissan New Mobility Concept vehicles to the Scoot Networks mobility service in San Francisco. The Nissan New Mobility Concept, also known as a Scoot Quad, is a battery-electric, two-seater compact vehicle with a range of 40 miles (64 km) and top speed of 25 mph (40 km/h), based on Renault’s Twizy.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JANUARY 20, 2009

All 74 vehicles that had signed up for the 2-mile parade through downtown Santa Monica showed up. EVer back on the Blue Highways of America, PHEV'ing around and up to San Francisco, "Spirit" and EVJerry. Electric Vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) were included. More coverage here. www.PluginAmerica.org.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

concept shown this year at the Paris show ( earlier post ), will—with a range of up to 373 miles and a market introduction in 2020—be priced approximately at the level of a diesel Golf—before any subsidies. The first production MEB vehicle, a version of the I.D. It will appear like a tablet on wheels.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The Mirai has had only a little competition Along with the Mirai, the Hyundai Nexo FCEV (and its predecessor, the Hyundai Tucson FCEV ) has been on sale in California since around 2016 and makes-up a part of the total 18,025 FCEVs sold in California. See Clean Fleet Reviews at the end of the story.

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APRIL 2, 2016

The East Bay BRT system is intended to increase reliability and reduce travel times along one of the San Francisco East Bay region’s busiest corridors. AC Transit’s BRT will operate between downtown Oakland and San Leandro—primarily utilizing historic International Boulevard and East 14 th Street.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2013

The roadmap suggests the steps necessary to move from the pre-commercial phase of fuel cell electric bus (FCEB) deployment and manufacturing (2012-2015) to the early commercial phase (2016- 2017) to a commercial model in 2018 and beyond, including the requisite fueling infrastructure. Vehicles introduced in the 2015-2016 timeframe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. In the last two years alone, fuel cell test vehicles have logged thousands of miles on North American roads. million km) of road testing.

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JULY 3, 2017

Liter Partial Consent Decree entered by the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 miles per kWh) for the expected future fleet of new EVs, including current EV units in operation. Background. Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This is a high-speed underground public transportation system that transports passengers on autonomous electric skates’ that travel at speeds ranging from 125 to 150 miles per hour. Musk claimed in his Hyperloop Alpha paper that his LA-San Francisco route could be built for one-tenth the cost of a high-speed rail option.

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JULY 17, 2015

In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) With this charge it can travel an average daily distance of about 30 miles (50 km), which is often enough to serve most consumers’ needs. Both owners drove an average of 12,000 total miles in the year.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Ford data shows that the 50 th percentile customer drives just under 30 miles every day. Based on RDD, Ford data shows that a 300-mile BEV will cover 100% of the RDD. Based on Ford data, a 300-mile BEV will not cover that distance. Ford PHEV sales up strongly in 2016. Largest repetitive daily distance (RDD).

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