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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

The backlash (tax dollars supporting Silicon Valley millionaires—both the buyers of the Teslas and the company founders) has altered the program. The number of EVs in my neighborhood seems to be growing weekly. The post Personal: One in a Million first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. I view 2022 as the watershed year.

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Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Set Ablaze By Crowd In San Francisco

The Truth About Cars

The Alphabet-owned company said a crowd used fireworks to set the Jaguar I-Pace on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. Things started somewhat calmly with a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, but the situation escalated when a person jumped onto the vehicle and smashed its windshield.

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Engineers Say “Nyet” to Doing Business in Russia, Survey Says

Cars That Think

Get my company out of Ukraine! Respondents in Europe were more likely to answer “Yes,” but many engineers at most companies surveyed supported an exit. See the chart below for company-by-company details. Others are flying the Ukrainian flag at their homes and painting it on rocks around their neighborhoods.

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Tesla’s invite-only Giga Fest at Gigafactory Texas draws concerns from local citizens

Teslarati

“We’re currently working through that invite list, and the invites have not been sent out yet but they will be pretty soon,” the person said. ” “Take this analogy: I just moved to a new neighborhood in Austin, and that is Commissioner [Brigid] Shea’s Precinct,” they said.

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Los Angeles launches New Mobility Challenge 2018

Green Car Congress

The first edition of the Challenge, presented at LA CoMotion 2017, attracted some 234 early-stage companies from 16 countries. One winner will be chosen per category, and one company will be crowned the overall champion of the competition.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

Green Car Congress

The projects—which include two new car sharing services, new ZEV bus and shuttle routes and electric vehicle charging systems throughout the region—are part of Electrify America’s Green City Initiative, which was announced by the company and city officials in 2017. Projects include: CAR SHARING. EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Elon Musk’s sale of Gene Wilder’s Bel-Air home paints a remarkable story

Teslarati

But while he was in the neighborhood one day with his wife, the filmmaker was pleasantly surprised to see the house still standing. Walker-Pearlman knew that he personally could not afford the property’s $9.5 Tesla CEO Elon Musk owned the home then, and a large party was underway. And so four months of negotiations started.

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