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Corporations Confront Obstacles In The Transition To Green Vehicle Fleets

CleanTechnica EVs

EVs have the potential to significantly improve fleet efficiency and reduce vehicle operation and maintenance costs. At the same time, EVs provide a simple solution to satisfy key company goals for acquiring alternative fuel vehicles and low greenhouse gas emitting vehicles.

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Start-Up Electric Car Company Green Vehicles Folds, Costs City $500,000

All Cars Electric

Consider today's collapse of electric car company Green Vehicles an object lesson in why it's a bad idea for cities to invest in the risky business of start-up car companies--perhaps especially start-up electric car companies.

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Purolator deploys fully electric delivery vehicles in Vancouver; Motiv Power Systems

Green Car Congress

Purolator is taking another step in greening its fleet with the arrival of fully electric curbside-delivery trucks in Vancouver—the first to be launched nationally by a Canadian courier company. Purolator’s deployment of this technology marks Motiv’s first collaboration with a company in Canada.

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EV subscription company Autonomy expands California operations to Central Coast region

Teslarati

Autonomy, the electric vehicle subscription company known for its Tesla Model 3 rental fleet, has announced it has expanded its operations to the Central Coast region of California. Drivers can order their vehicles and pick them up in less than 10 minutes by providing their driver’s license and a form of digital payment.

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Don’t Forget The 2-Wheel Electric Revolution

CleanTechnica EVs

The summit season has kicked off big time in Southeast Asia, and green vehicles are in the spotlight. Many companies are realising that electric two-wheelers will be first taken up in this part of the world,” Vivek Lath, […]. Local police are even riding electric motorcycles to escort delegates.

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Lease A Green Vehicle, Get Rebate Yourself--In CO, Anyway

Green Car Reports

A bill signed in Colorado will now allow lessees to claim any tax credits for hybrid cars and electric vehicles, rather than the lessor. Previously, the state had allowed banks or finance companies to choose whether claim the credits themselves on lease vehicles, or to pass the credits on to the lessee.

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UK to invest £200M in fleet of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks

Green Car Congress

This could see hundreds more zero-emission HGVs rolled out across the nation and save the industry money, due to overall running costs of green vehicles being cheaper than gasoline and diesel equivalents.

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