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All American Marine launches new hybrid catamaran

Green Car Congress

USCG Subchapter T, hybrid-electric passenger vessel was designed by Glosten in Seattle, and will serve as a water taxi, transporting 150 passengers between Bremerton, Port Orchard, and Annapolis Washington. All American Marine recently launched the Waterman for Kitsap Transit.

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Electrify America releases $300M Cycle 2 national ZEV investment plan; metro charging, autonomous charging, renewable generation

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Electrify America also will continue to invest in these Cycle 1 metros: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC. Bridgeport (CT) for the New York City market.

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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis to drive faster, farther, at night in Las Vegas – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The changes, announced on Thursday, apply to Zoox’s fleet of vehicles that it designed and built itself. Zoox also operates retrofitted self-driving Toyota Highlanders in Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Foster City, California.

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Berkeley TSRC study quantifies VMT and GHG benefits of car2go car-sharing in North America

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Members pay by the minute to begin and end a trip at different locations—either throughout a free floating zone or station-based model with designated parking locations. The five cities were Calgary, San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. In addition to the city fleets, high mileage and high visibility fleets are included, such as Coca-Cola, Sysco, Frito Lay, school districts, and taxis. Total DOE award: $14,999,927. Total DOE award: $13,181,171.

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

Cars That Think

The DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges for autonomous vehicles, in 2005 and 2007, formed the foundation for today’s autonomous taxis. In 2022, Amazon invested in Agility as part of its Industrial Innovation Fund , and late last year Amazon started testing Digit at its robotics research and development site near Seattle, Wash.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. In our Gothenburg and Oslo taxi projects, the chargers are at the taxi stands. It’s designed to be easily maintainable, swappable. We did a ribbon cutting for Kitsap Transit, which is right across from Seattle.