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DRIVEtheARC EV fast charging corridor opens in Nor Cal; 55 new fast chargers at 25 locations

Green Car Congress

DRIVEtheARC, a corridor of electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations spanning from Monterey to Lake Tahoe, announced the completion of the chargers’ deployment and its official grand opening on the one year anniversary of the project’s official launch. —Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Chief Sustainability Officer of Nissan Motor.

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Redwood Materials opens up new facility just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada

Teslarati

Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. Tesla also manufactures electric motors for the Model 3 in the Nevada Gigafactory. The reason for the Tahoe-Reno location in Reno-Sparks is simple: Tesla Gigafactory.

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Japan-US DRIVETHEARC EV fast charging corridor breaks ground in Northern California; 50 fast chargers by March 2017

Green Car Congress

DRIVETHEARC , a corridor of electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations spanning from Monterey to Lake Tahoe, broke ground in El Dorado Hills, Calif. Nissan North America, Kanematsu and EVgo. Nissan North America, Kanematsu and EVgo.

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Cadillac to offer advanced V2V and semi-automated driving technologies in certain 2017 MY vehicles

Green Car Congress

Cadillac will begin offering advanced “intelligent and connected” vehicle technologies on certain 2017 model year vehicles, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Sunday during her keynote address at the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) World Congress in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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GMs Taub: self-driving vehicles could be ready by end of decade

Green Car Congress

Vehicles that partially drive themselves will be available by the middle of the decade with more sophisticated self-driving systems by the end of the decade, General Motors Vice President of Global Research and Development Alan Taub told the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Orlando on Sunday. —Alan Taub.

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At the EV Crossroads

Clean Fleet Report

A PHEV is a dual-drive vehicle, but is either a gas-powered car carrying around an electric motor and load of batteries to assist it or an EV lugging a heavy gas engine in case it runs out of battery. liter gas engine (28 mpg highway) for a run in the snow up to Lake Tahoe. As far as I was concerned, they were at price parity.

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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

Cars That Think

2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. Switching between multiple special interest plates ; drivers won’t have to commit to supporting, say, Lake Tahoe, at the expense of Yosemite or the California coast.

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