Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2016

Valeo’s Cruise4U partially automated car, previously demonstrated at CES in Las Vegas in January 2016, set off from San Francisco on a 13,000-mile road trip around the US that is scheduled to conclude back in San Francisco on 15 September. It works during the day and at night, when the car is driving at both high and low speeds.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Listen to what happens when the Nissan Leaf roadshow reaches Seattle. Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s Director of Product Planning, says Seattle is part of a DOE project to place 2,500 charging stations to the Puget Sound region this summer. Nissan Leaf prototype electric car photo on EnergyPriorities.com.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

Clean Cars 2030 passed as an amendment to E2SHB 1287 , a bill mandating electric utility preparation for an all-EV future, with a vote of 25-23 in the Senate and 54-43 in the House. Nicole Macri (D-Seattle) as HB 1204, the bill is now the first LDV combustion-engine phaseout target to be passed through the legislative process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

This includes cars in the Express Drive rental car partner program for rideshare drivers, its consumer rental car program for riders, the autonomous vehicle program, and drivers’ personal cars used on the Lyft platform. Lyft said that the potential benefits to drivers are very significant.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 18, 2024

It's not like Boeing bouncing from Seattle to Chicago to Virginia, or even United Airlines decamping Chicago for its suburbs (or McDonald's, which moved from Chicago's suburbs to the city proper). The General is moving just a mile. That's because in this case, GM is moving just a few blocks. Sound off below.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

Volvo Car USA and Starbucks are partnering to establish the first public electric vehicle charging network at numerous U.S. The charging stations, powered by ChargePoint, will be installed at up to 15 stores along a 1,350-miles corridor from Seattle to Denver. locations beginning this Summer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With the Automated Driving Platform running on Azure, Car.Software Organization intends to increase the efficiency of the development of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and AD functions for passenger cars across Volkswagen Group brands. Volkswagen Group increases in-house development of software in the car.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 100,000th electric car globally. Renault-Nissan has sold more zero-emission cars than all other major automakers combined, the automakers noted. More than 80% of LEAF buyers globally exchange cars from other automakers, making the LEAF one of the industry’s most innovative “conquest vehicles.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2017

Initially, the service is available in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart), and in the US (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.). —Joe Berry, vice president and general manager of automotive at INRIX.

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Baua Electric

MAY 11, 2024

You’ve perhaps heard of the original Tesla Roadster, the car that started Tesla and the EV revolution. Normally, we wouldn’t write an article just because someone is trying to sell any old car, even a Roadster (that said, I’m thinking of selling mine ). Internal documentation about the project will be provided to the buyer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

Amazon’s self-driving car unit, Zoox, is seeking to stay abreast of rival Waymo by expanding its vehicles’ testing in California and Nevada to include a wider area, higher speeds and nighttime driving. Zoox also operates retrofitted self-driving Toyota Highlanders in Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Foster City, California.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Zipcar was the first car-sharing company in the United States to introduce electric vehicles, starting in Boston in 2002, and the first to offer hybrid vehicles through a partnership with Honda in Seattle in 2003. Honda’s 2014 Fit EV, based on the popular five-passenger Fit, is rated at a combined fuel economy of 118 MPGe.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 30, 2024

We were curious, when invited to Seattle to drive the 2024 Mustang Mach-E, what exactly what we would learn. Updates coming early in the GT’s life GT Vs. Rally GT, Italian for Gran Turismo or Grand Tourer, historically is a car that has been engineered for comfort on long drives. More range. More Capability.

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Baua Electric

MAY 26, 2024

As long as you’re on the Big Island, the site of several active volcanoes, visit the thermal pools alongside some of its beaches, including Pohoiki Black Sand Beach at Isaac Hale Beach Park , 40 miles south of Onekahakaha. The ocean there may be a bit rough for young swimmers, but it’s a great place to show children a fresh lava flow.

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Baua Electric

MAY 26, 2024

As long as you’re on the Big Island, the site of several active volcanoes, visit the thermal pools alongside some of its beaches, including Pohoiki Black Sand Beach at Isaac Hale Beach Park , 40 miles south of Onekahakaha. The ocean there may be a bit rough for young swimmers, but it’s a great place to show children a fresh lava flow.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Among the study’s conclusions were that, on balance, car2go changes VMT (vehicle miles travelled) by -6% to -16% per car2go household; GHG emissions change by -4% to -18% per car2go household. The UC Berkeley study is the first-ever multi-city study to focus on one-way carsharing rather than the traditional round-trip car-sharing model.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

Car-sharing network Zipcar, Inc. Zipcar is launching the Zipvan service in Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon today, and will roll out the service to its remaining metro markets in North America over the next 12 months. plans to expand the company’s Zipvan cargo van service across North America.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Developed by General Motors and built in partnership with the pioneering electric drag racing team Hancock and Lane Racing, the concept race car—based on the 2019 COPO Camaro —is driven by an electric motor providing the equivalent of more than 700 horsepower and 600 lb-ft (813 N·m) of torque. Testing is ongoing.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For example, the Chicago area EV enthusiasts are gathering at the Christian Community Church parking lot,1635 Emerson Lane in Naperville, IL at 2pm to open the doors of dozens of electric cars and electric conversions to community members who want to talk to EV drivers and learn more about the cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Early aggregate data collected through vehicles tied to MyFord Mobile show nearly 60% of total PHEV miles driven every day are in electric mode, and that there is an improvement in this figure over the first 30 days of vehicle ownership. More daily total miles. 84% of one-way trips are of distances 20 miles or less. Short trips.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 5, 2022

Amazon signed a new deal with Stellantis for in-car dashboard software. We always knew that our ambitious sustainability goals in our last mile operations would require multiple electric delivery van providers,” an emailed statement from Amazon to CNBC said. “We Rivian shares tanked more than 10% on the news.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

As a result, studies continue to show that EV drivers are experiencing less transportation-related financial strain than drivers of traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. Cost of ownership scenarios are accessible in real time on a number of internet sites to illustrate the expense of driving a car for its entire life cycle.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Seattle; and Washington, DC. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.;

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2022

The pilot program accumulated over 90,000 miles of real-world testing and resulted in 430,000 package deliveries. by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Rivian’s electric Amazon Delivery Van starts deliveries in San Francisco as testing continues.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

Rounding out the top ten were Newark, Seattle and Atlanta. THINK plans to begin selling the THINK City, which will have a top speed of more than 70 miles per hour and a range of more than 100 miles per full charge, in target US cities beginning this year. with US production slated to begin early next year. Chicago (tie).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Metro serves Seattle and the rest of King County. The 40-foot Catalyst buses have an estimated range of about 25 miles, with a quick charging time of just 10 minutes. Metro will also acquire up to nine long-range electric buses from different manufacturers to test the battery technology with a range of about 140 miles.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 14, 2024

Investigations commenced after Kenn Dahl, a Seattle-based gentleman who drives a Chevrolet Bolt, noticed his insurance premiums shot up by 21 percent in 2022. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car. On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 Same with acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.;

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Nearly 22,000 people in North America have contacted Nissan since the company unveiled the car in August. Our goal is to confirm at least 20,000 reservations for Nissan LEAF by the time we deliver the world's first mass-market zero-emission car in late 2010. Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Earlier post.). Tucson, Ariz.;

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Plug in America

AUGUST 10, 2022

According to a recent report, plug-in hybrid and EV inventory levels are at record lows with less than 20-day supply at dealerships nationwide compared to the nationwide average of 38-day supply leading to record-high pricing, with the average new car transaction price at a record $48,043.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Kia’s addition of six new DC fast chargers to Washington’s already-existing network of 414 DC chargers will increase fast-charger availability by 40% in the Seattle metro area and 15 percent statewide. The 2016 Soul EV is Kia’s first all-electric car to be sold in the US.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2015

According to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard , travel delays due to traffic congestion caused drivers to waste more than 3 billion gallons of fuel and kept travelers stuck in their cars for nearly 7 billion extra hours—42 hours per rush-hour commuter. The total nationwide price tag: $160 billion, or $960 per commuter.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 11, 2009

The concept of car sharing has long been hailed as a more efficient approach to urban driving. The city of Toronto now appears likely to follow Seattle, Vancouver and San Francisco in moving to a system that specifies the maximum number of dedicated car-share vehicles inside apartment buildings.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For wide-spread adoption, the analysis assumes that the electric vehicle market share grows from approximately 1% today to a substantial share of total sales, such that by 2050 electricity is powering 53% of personal vehicle miles traveled. Transportation electrification can lead to modest, but widespread air quality benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

The researchers acquired two cars from a rental agency and one from a private owner. Additionally, one of the urea SCR vehicles was operated over a total distance of ~4,000 km (~2,485 miles) between Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA to investigate emissions reduction characteristics over extended highway driving conditions.

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