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Lyft commits to 100% EVs by 2030

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This includes cars in the Express Drive rental car partner program for rideshare drivers, its consumer rental car program for riders, the autonomous vehicle program, and drivers’ personal cars used on the Lyft platform. In 2018, Lyft started a carbon-offsets program to make rides on the Lyft platform carbon-neutral.

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Volkswagen extending Automotive Cloud to China and US in addition to Europe; core markets for future ID. EV

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In September 2018, Volkswagen and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to. They are concentrating on communication and navigation solutions as well as personalized services: These will leverage self-learning algorithms facilitating the use of services in the vehicle and offering occupants extended functions. Earlier post.).

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Rivian Guides reaching out to R1T reservation holders to prepare for July deliveries

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Rivian R1T reservation holder AdamL , located in Seattle, was one of the first who shared his email from a Rivian Guide. Based on the screenshots of the emails shared by the reservation holders, Rivian appears to be adopting a personalized approach when communicating with its customers.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He left Microsoft in Seattle where he had worked for three years as a software development engineer and speech scientist. Kim, who grew up in South Korea, missed his family, and in 2018 he moved back, joining Samsung as vice president of its AI Center in Seoul. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge has grown to more than 350 partners since its launch in January 2013, and is on track to meet its goal to partner with 500 United States employers by 2018. City of Seattle.

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Proud of its roots

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Subsequently, McNeil traveled to Seattle to purchase an already converted AMC Hornet 4-door sedan, and then towed the car back to Colorado. “I We like to do in person meetings when we can actually visit something,” he continued, describing chapter trips to battery manufacturing plants, wind farms, and the solar array at the U.S.