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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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CARB, NOAA, NASA and San Jose State University scientists team up to study ozone transported across Pacific

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A contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), “Lidar Profiling of Ozone in the San Joaquin Valley,” uses a surface-based ozone LiDAR to provide ozone profiles in the San Joaquin Valley for three weeks in both the spring and summer of 2016.

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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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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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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 Cumulative electric vehicle sales and 2017 sales shares in electric vehicle capital cities. Source: The ICCT. million in 2017, according to the ICCT findings.

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Audi to announce EV production plans in Mexico: report

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Audi, which is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, has been manufacturing the Audi Q5, a compact SUV, in the state of Puebla, Mexico since 2016. A hybrid variant was later introduced as well. An announcement on Audi’s expansion plans is expected to be done around July 18.

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