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FCA US to deliver thousands of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid Minivans to Waymo’s self-driving service

Green Car Congress

FCA US LLC announced an agreement to supply “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid minivans ( earlier post ) to Waymo to support the launch of its driverless ride-hailing service. 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.

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Waymo Jaguar I-Pace Lets Passengers Aboard

Get Electric Vehicle

Initially, the rides will be conducted in San Francisco as a part of Waymo’s Trusted Tester Program. . Waymo has been testing self-driving cars on public highways in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 12 years and began providing rides to employees earlier this year. . The All-Electric Jaguar I-Pace.

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Road Test: 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

If you are one of those “I will never drive a minivan” type of persons, please keep reading. When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in 2017, it was the only electrified minivan on the market. But the landscape has changed since 2017 as the 2021 Toyota Sienna minivan is now a hybrid.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. Favorite books “I made a conscious decision to stop reading fiction at age 15, when I was a voracious reader.