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Cruising San Francisco, With No One Behind the Wheel

Baua Electric

When David De Clercq traveled to San Francisco last year, he had a few musts on his itinerary: Go to Alcatraz. Self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles or, colloquially, robotaxis, have been driving the streets of San Francisco in some form since 2009 and have been operating commercially since last August.

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Elon Musk’s X takes down controversial lighted sign in San Francisco

Teslarati

X no longer marks the spot in San Francisco. Following a weekend of complaints and criticism, Elon Musk’s social media company, X, formerly known as Twitter, has removed the massive lighted logo on top of its San Francisco headquarters. The installation of the lighted X logo received polarizing reactions.

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Phillips 66 to convert San Francisco Refinery into world’s largest renewable fuels plant; 800M+ gallons per year

Green Car Congress

Phillips 66, a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company, plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant would no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead would make fuels from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils.

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Uber launches self-driving pilot in San Francisco with Volvo Cars

Green Car Congress

Uber is expanding its self-driving pilot to San Francisco, California, using specially-converted self-driving Volvo XC90 premium SUVs. These cars will drive around the streets of San Francisco autonomously, but as part of the pilot program they will at all times have an Uber technician on board to supervise the car’s operation.

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Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

Green Car Congress

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., a global supplier of hydrogen fuel cell-powered commercial vehicles, announced a joint venture to build up to 100 hydrogen hubs across the United States and globally. As a non-combustion process, there is no ash, no slag, build up, or hotspots in the equipment.

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ABC Companies partners with Lightning eMotors to launch first electric repowered motorcoach

Green Car Congress

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators. —Roman Cornell, president and chief commercial officer of ABC Companies.

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Wright Electric to develop electric 100-passenger aircraft for one-hour regional flights

Green Car Congress

The Wright Spirit aircraft design builds on the BAe 146 platform—a 100 passenger, 4-engine aircraft known for its operation out of noise-sensitive airports. Throughout the last two years, the company has been proving key components of the system including a high-efficiency, high-power density inverter and a 2 MW (2,700 HP) motor.