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GM’s Maven car-sharing reaches 1M miles driven in <4 months; Boston, Chicago, and DC joining lineup

Green Car Congress

In Chicago, the Maven City car sharing program is now in operation, with pricing starting at $8 an hour including insurance and fuel. In addition to Maven City, Maven+ residential on-demand car sharing is available to residents of the Aqua luxury high-rise apartment community in the city’s Lakeshore East neighborhood.

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California ARB approves cap-and-trade amendments; linking with Ontario

Green Car Congress

AB 617 directs CARB to work with local air districts on the deployment of community-focused air quality monitoring networks, as well as the development and implementation of community emission reduction plans in the neighborhoods most burdened by poor air quality. California is on track to achieve its 2020 goal.

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Mobility Choice Coalition Launches 10-Point Policy Blueprint to Move US to a Competitive Transportation Market

Green Car Congress

Mobility Choice, a new project of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), released its 10-point Blueprint for Mobility Choice outlining a market-oriented approach to expanding competition among transportation modes for the purpose of reducing oil’s strategic value. Deploy HOT lanes and Congestion Pricing.

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Tata Workforce to create $5 billion 40 GW battery mobile gigafactory in the United Kingdom to provide JLR

Baua Electric

It will not only create thousands of skilled jobs for Britons around the country, but it will also strengthen our lead in the global transition to electric vehicles, helping to grow our economy in clean industries of the future.” This will be one of the largest-ever investments in the UK automotive sector.

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LEED Certification and EV Charging Stations: What you need to know

Blink Charging

Meet ENERGY STAR criteria and have features like load management and flexible pricing. LEED can be applied to newly designed, built, or renovated commercial buildings, homes, neighborhoods, and even entire cities. LEED’s stated goal is to help create buildings that: Reduce contribution to global climate change.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The novel system shows potential for tackling global problems in a patient, thoughtful, and human-scaled way.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

In partnership with Community Charging, headed by Vanessa Perkins, and funded by the Keeling Curve Prize for Global Warming Mitigation (which we were proud to receive last summer), EVmatch has a new publicly-available charging station located at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood.