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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. Try new restaurants. Mr. De Clercq, 42, who splits his time between New Jersey and Sardinia, where he owns restaurants and bars and rents villas, is an avid traveler. “I And ride in a self-driving car.

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DOE awarding $7.4M to 7 projects for medium-and heavy-duty EV and hydrogen corridor infrastructure plans

Green Car Congress

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Rocky Mountain Institute: San Francisco and Bay Area Regional Medium-and Heavy-Duty Electrification Roadmap. Cummins Inc.:

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EVmatch Installs EV Chargers At Multi-Family Properties, And They Could Be Available To You

EV Match

roads within a decade, and that was projected before California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts called to ban gas car sales by 2035. That’s great news for homeowners since most “fueling” won’t even take a trip to a station across town; instead, drivers can pull into their own garage and charge up overnight.

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Ford begins production of 2012 Focus Electric at Michigan Assembly, C-MAX models on deck

Green Car Congress

A limited number of Focus Electrics will first be available in California and the New York/New Jersey areas. The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Portland, Ore.;

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What’s up with the BMW MINI E?

Plugs and Cars

In June about 500 cars were placed in consumer and fleet hands in Los Angeles and New York and New Jersey for what BMW calls a " field trial." BMW found that the quickest and cheapest way to get the credits that it will need to accumulate is, of course, to build electric cars. The BMW Mini E has hit the streets.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. We know that in California, they have a pretty strong incentive program to try to help companies pay some of the upfront costs, and she told me that there’s a bill on the table in New Jersey to do something like that.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. is Hymotions San Francisco-based distributor/installer. For a list of conversions completed to date, see Where PHEVs (mostly Priuses) Are. Go to Hymotion.com. Green Gears, Inc.

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