Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Four of the top 15 markets are in California: San Francisco (1), Los Angeles (2), San Diego (7) and Sacramento (8). The Top 15 LEAF markets nationally, rank-ordered (Nissan does not specify sales data down to the DMA level, but does suggest reasons for the sales performance): San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

and San Francisco); the UK (available in London); and China (available in Shanghai). Installation at Hertz’s corporate headquarters will be completed in February 2012. Hertz has deployed EVs and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric) in the US (available to the public in New York, Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

GE and Better Place have formed a technology and financing partnership to accelerate the global deployment of electric vehicle infrastructure through collaboration in four key areas: standards-based technology development; battery financing; joint fleet electrification programs; and consumer awareness.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Relevant plug-in vehicles that drive customer demand and are connected; Enabling technologies like advanced batteries and sophisticated software controls; A capable/green grid; and, Plug-in ready communities with supporting policies. Mark Duvall of EPRI said the grid would be able to handle “ as many [plug-ins] as you want. ”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2012

Hertz On Demand in Germany will supply electric vehicles to the car share fleet used by IBM employees to drive between Stuttgart Airport and the company’s campus in Ehningen, about 30 km (18.6 and San Francisco); the UK (London); and China (Shenzhen). miles) away. available to the public in New York, Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC, working in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), will deliver 10 demonstration fleet Ram 1500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) pickup trucks to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Albany, N.Y., and Charlotte, N.C.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Ryder System, a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions, has started to take delivery of 125 Chanje medium-duty electric panel vans ( earlier post ), the first of their kind in North America, now available for lease or rent.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The platform centrally optimizes fleet operations, breaking the dependence on driver decision making, and is designed to achieve the benefits of an autonomous fleet, starting today with traditional vehicles. Currently is operating in Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with plans to expand to several more cities soon.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Construction of the facility is underway and will be fully operational by Summer 2022, putting FreeWire at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area’s transportation technology hub.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

Consumers spurred the EV revolution, but today charging at fleet depots and commercial buildings is becoming more critical as the electrification movement gains momentum. Chanje is the first company in North America to be able to deliver large-scale fleets of commercial electric trucks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Non-governmental organizations include the Bay Area Climate Collaborative; the EV Communities Alliance; CityCar Share, a non-profit vehicle-sharing program; Plug-in America, an electric vehicle advocate; and Bay Area Clean Cities Coalitions, promoters of electric vehicle use in fleets. 200,000 to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2011, batteries which were previously used in the MINI E test fleet were successfully implemented in a stationary project. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Fleet owners and operators or shared mobility platforms: ABB; Astra Zeneca; BT Group; Capgemini; Centrica; Danfoss; E.On; EDP; GlaxoSmithKline; Highland Electric Fleets HP Inc.; Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. National Grid: Northeast Electric Highways Study. The selected projects are: CALSTART: East Coast Commercial ZEV Corridor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The industry needs to continue to overcome the obstacles of extended range, price and impact on the grid if we’re going to be able to deliver a better experience than what consumers currently get. These fleet customers include the Israel operations for multi-national companies including Cisco, FedEx and IBM, among others.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The plan also includes investments for charging stations to support ZEV bus fleets and ride hail services, as well as residential and autonomous vehicle charging. San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. The company also will invest in rural Level 2 charging.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

A fleet of more than 1000 BMW ActiveE vehicles will provide further valuable insights into the everyday use of the vehicle. The ActiveE will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

In addition, other use cases/technologies are also under consideration including destination charging at California state parks to increase access to L2s, and, for higher power DC charging applications, targeted battery storage to manage peak demand, ease grid loads, etc. Additional metro areas will be targeted in future investment cycles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. 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.&#.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 21, 2024

GW of power back into the grid when not being used Zum, a transportation-services company that provides electric buses and charging stations to school districts, claims to have launched the first 100% electric school bus fleet in the U.S. GW of power back into the grid when not transporting students, according to Zum.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

GM announced its intention to “place” 100 FCVs with fleets and consumers over the next few years. Lithium batteries and the possibilities of Vehicle-to-Grid technology provided the real buzz at ZEVTech. The return to Toyota of the EV fleet is on hold for the moment. They forsee no market until well into the next decade.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

In May, the Oakland Unified school district announced the conversion of its entire school bus fleet to EVs. Zum will manage charging through a V2G-capable platform that will deliver energy back to the grid as needed when the buses are parked. That number included over 1,000 electric units, and 5,000 more were in the pipeline.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2016

The seven finalist cities that were announced at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March—Austin, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco—all presented innovative concepts, proposing to create new first-of-a-kind corridors for autonomous vehicles to move city residents, to electrify city fleets, and to collectively (..)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. BMW ActiveE. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Photo: Zum An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. The fleet will be managed through Zum’s AI-enabled technology platform. gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy back to the power grid at scale annually. Get started here. –

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2024

Seattle-based startup Hubble Network announced today that it had a letter of understanding with San Francisco-based startup Life360 to develop a global, satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) tracking system.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Photo: Zum An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Modern student transportation platform Zum has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2022

The Los Angeles company plans to bring its four-wheeled robots to parking facilities, hotels, shopping and entertainment centers, fleet operators, and residential properties. From its home base, Ziggy slurps up a 50-kilowatt-hour charge from the grid, batteries, or solar power. The EV charger that comes to you.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — The State of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Electric Company on Tuesday endorsed an effort to build an alternative transportation system based on electric vehicles with swappable batteries and an “intelligent” battery recharging network. Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars. By JOHN MARKOFF. Published: December 2, 2008.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2025

The three main goals of the funding are to expand access to electrified mobility options for folks who dont have access to home charging, accelerate opportunities for fleet electrification, and improve and advance managed charging systems to mitigate impacts and optimize usage of the grid. Electrifying fleets for people and goods.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

There are already spaces in New York City and Los Angeles, and there are now two in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m located. The newest Polestar Space just opened in Silicon Valley, at the Westfield Valley Fair, 2855 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose. modern showroom to get a feel for the cars before placing your order.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said.

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2009

A powerful roster of key industry players in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle arena will come together at Infocast’s Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility in San Francisco, California. For further information about Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility, visit [link].

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