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A $275 Bus Ticket to the Hamptons

Baua Electric

Blade, the helicopter charter company, was founded 10 years ago as a way for commuters going between New York and the Hamptons to avoid vehicle traffic. This May it is introducing a new service, the Hamptons Streamliner, that, starting at $195 a ticket, will take passengers to destinations on eastern Long Island aboard … a bus.

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NY Governor Cuomo announces “Make-Ready” program for EV charging stations; >20K EV rebates approved

Green Car Congress

New York Governor Andrew M. A typical DCFC station in New York is not expected to be profitable over the initial ten-year period of operations, barring utility investment in make-ready or another incentive source, given current station economics.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

Cars That Think

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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3 Things Utilities Can Do to Prepare the Power Grid for More Electric Cars

EV Connect

A recent New York Times article even reported that prices for many EVs could dip below their gas counterparts in 2023 — sooner than expected. neighborhoods and business districts. But it’s also incumbent on utilities to create the necessary buy-back programs and deploy the required software to easily draw power from EVs.

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

How am I supposed to look anyone under 40 years old in the eye unless I do everything I can to buy them some more time and stave off the worst of what’s coming? . Because my father’s father was an illiterate Italian illegal immigrant who drove a truck in New York City his entire career, all undocumented workers are my family.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

The LIGHTS partners advised EV fleet adopters to build in extra time before the vehicles themselves are scheduled to be delivered—because a large electric truck without the ability to charge it is little more than a parking-lot paperweight. Onward and upward. Now that the Volvo LIGHTS program has officially concluded, what’s next?

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

We want to predict where we need to build the next electric charging station.”. Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. People are buying more and more electric cars,” says Eerenberg, the alderman. We Drive Solar.

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