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Volvo Cars, Starbucks begin installing ChargePoint EV fast chargers at stores between Denver and Seattle

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars, in cooperation with Starbucks Corporation, announced the first Starbucks stores where new electric vehicle (EV) chargers, powered by ChargePoint, will be available to customers and members of the public. Four chargers at the first Starbucks location in Provo, Utah (East Bay – University & 9 th , 979 S University Ave.)

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Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Investing in Offshore Wind Backbone

Green Car Congress

Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. The 350-mile (563-km) long transmission backbone will provide approximately 6,000 MW of offshore wind capacity, enough power to serve 1.9 Source: Google. Click to enlarge.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

Green Car Congress

Up to now, our industry has measured on-road reliability of autonomous vehicles, in the millions of miles, which is impressive. The roughly 100 million Toyota cars and trucks in service at any given time in the world travel a total of about 1 trillion miles per year. Society tolerates a lot of human error. John Leonard, Samuel C.

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Toyota is already offering $10k off a lease for its fully electric 2024 bZ4X

Baua Electric

These figures are based on an MSRP of $47,734 and an allowance of 10,000 miles per year. The car-buying website doesn’t say exactly where in Greater New York, but a quick Google search confirmed that this deal does indeed exist: However, when I click on Toyota’s “Greater New York” link, it’s not on the lease deals list.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

Drive Electric

Most new electric car models offer a ‘real world’ range of more than 150 miles per charge and some Teslas have WLTP ranges of more than 400 miles, while the Peugeot e-Expert Standard van has a real-world range of 170 miles. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a big deal these days. Electric fleet pioneers.

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Did You Make Your Connecting Flight? You May Have A.I. to Thank.

Baua Electric

It’s like Google maps, but in the air,” explained Vikram Baskaran, vice president for information technology services at the carrier. takes in “an amount of information no human brain could process,” said Pasha Saleh, the corporate development director and a pilot for Alaska. Saving fuel and frustration A.I.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

“It was a great win, but 10 months later, we’re still paying the demand fees ,” Schwanke said, explaining that he recently attended another round of hearings regarding the government’s Kansas Corporation Commission ’s plans to make up for the lost ordinance revenue. For hybrids, there’s a $50 charge.” “If

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