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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

Green Car Congress

Metz and Janelle London finds that state vehicle electrification mandates can withstand legal challenges based on federal preemption if they are based solely on reasons for transitioning to electric vehicles that are within the state's authority. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner. The paper by Matthew N.

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Tesla Insurance moves closer to launch in Europe with new job posting

Teslarati

Tesla Insurance is gearing up for a potential launch in Europe, as the company is seeking Legal Counsel specializing in insurance for the market. Tesla has posted a job seeking Legal Counsel for its European insurance operations. This is a full-time opportunity, to be based in our London HQ office.”

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

Data Driven Insurance, London. City Driving On-Demand, London. A fleet of Ford Focus Electric vehicles and Ford Fiestas with EcoBoost powertrains is located across London. The London service targets a better customer experience and improved operational efficiency compared to existing car-sharing models.

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Dealing with Petroleum Addiction, British Style

Plugs and Cars

The British Government is attempting to strangle the electric car baby in its London cradle. The small, 45mph zero-emission vehicles have found a ready market in London - 850 sold so far - where electrics are exempt from the stiff daily congestion charge for driving in central London.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. thesis in 1973.

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Bring on the EV Trucks

Revenge of the Electric Car

Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). Although funded as a startup with money from the California state government, EVI, as it is called, began marketing in Mexico because the U.S. Electric Vehicles International isn’t new.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. We have a big network in Northern California, which is still in design work—that’s an organization called the Solana Transportation Authority. We also have a grocery delivery van with Waitrose in London.