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BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in electric bus company Proterra; part of $55M round

Green Car Congress

Generation Investment Management LLP, a long-term, sustainability focused investment firm led the round, which was joined by BMW i Ventures, the corporate venture capital team founded by BMW Group in 2011. —Zach Barasz, partner at BMW i Ventures.

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BMW i and EVgo expanding ChargeNow DC Fast program; 500 more fast chargers in US; no-cost DC and Level 2 for BMW i3 drivers

Green Car Congress

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, BMW of North America announced, in cooperation with NRG EVgo, the expansion of the ChargeNow DC Fast program. ChargeNow DC Fast also includes two years of no-cost charging for qualifying BMW i3 drivers in those areas. —Rob Healey, Head of EV Infrastructure for BMW of North America.

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Microsoft joins Baidu Apollo project to advance autonomous driving; global Azure cloud support

Green Car Congress

—,Kevin Dallas, corporate vice president, Microsoft. We are excited to have Microsoft as part of the Apollo alliance. By applying our global cloud AI, machine learning, and deep neural network capabilities to that data, we can accelerate the work already being done to make autonomous vehicles safer.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

In part he is offended by what he regards as the use of unreliable software in mission-critical applications. O’Dowd: I was in a [Tesla] car, as a passenger, testing on a country road, and a BMW approached. Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston. He even toyed with a one-issue campaign for the U.S.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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