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INRIX: shared bikes and scooters could replace nearly 50% of downtown vehicle trips

Green Car Congress

Micromobility (defined as shared bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters) could deliver substantial benefits to consumers and businesses around the world, including efficient and cost-effective travel, reduced traffic congestion, decreased emissions and a boost to the local economy. Leveraging big data to plan for micromobility services.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. The LIGHTS team had the Volvo VNR Electric tractor assessed by a team at the University of California, Riverside on a heavy-duty dynamometer. Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. That’s about to change.

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

Green Car Congress

Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition’s Long Island Regional Energy Collaborative Promoting a Green Economy through Clean Alternatives. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Total DOE award: $14,999,927. Total DOE award: $14,997,240.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.