Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Greenhouse gas emissions were examined for 17 nonstop flights with round-trip distances ranging from 131 miles to 19,040 miles. airline (San Francisco to Santa Rosa); the longest flight within the continental United States (Seattle to Miami); and the longest flight in the world (New York to Singapore). times to 2.98

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

kWh Li-ion pack, offering an expected driving range rating of approximately 100 miles (161 km). The battery warranty is 8 years or 100,000 miles. The battery-electric SUV features a 41.8 With a 10 kW charger on-board (SAE J1772 connector), charging time of the large pack is approximately six hours on a 240V/40A charger.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

ZeroAvia will now turn its attention to the next and final stage of its six-seat development program—a 250-mile zero emission flight out of an airfield in Orkney before the end of the year. The demonstration of this range is roughly equivalent to busy major routes such as Los Angeles to San Francisco or London to Edinburgh.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2021

Ample announced last week that it's partnering with Sally—a firm that organizes vehicle rentals for taxi, ride-sharing, and last-mile delivery services—to design and build battery-swapping stations in major cities like San Francisco, Los.

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Electrek

AUGUST 3, 2022

For over a year now, I have been planning a trip up the coast with my parents to San Francisco. Lucid Motors lent me its latest EV, and we were off in search of coastal views, some Chicago Cubs wins, and a genuine test of how the Grand Touring Performance would handle a 450-mile road trip north. Here’s how it went.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Examples include charging locations that would allow drivers of electric vehicles to more rapidly travel between San Diego and the Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, Sacramento and Fresno, etc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Leveraging some 20 years of experience and data reaching back to its early work with hybrids and the Ranger EV, Ford has developed a battery model and life validation protocol it now uses to predict how lithium-ion batteries are likely to perform under 10 years and 150,000 miles of use (40-season equivalent key life tests).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven Gig vehicles are available for flat weekly rates that include the car, unlimited miles, insurance (minus deductibles) and maintenance. The Chevrolet Bolt EV with an EPA-estimated range of 238 miles is the most popular vehicle among Maven Gig drivers. Unlimited miles and insurance are included, and there’s no membership fee.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2024

Driverless ride-hailing is rapidly increasing in San Francisco, California, and recent data shows that it has continued to grow even after an incident involving a passenger with General Motors (GM) subsidiary Cruise. You can see the Waymo and Cruise data as compiled by San Francisco Chronicle’s Sriharsha Devulapallo below.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

A fully charged battery is sufficient for up to 135 kilometers (84 miles). Hertz is the first car-rental company to deploy EVs and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric) on three continents—in the US (available to the public in New York, Washington, DC and San Francisco); the UK (London) and now Italy in Europe; and China (Shenzhen).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The ARB must establish a per-passenger, per-mile GHG emission baseline for TNC vehicles by 1 January 2020. In San Francisco, it’s estimated that TNC companies produce the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as 100,000 households produce in a year. billion miles of driving annually.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) showcased the utility’s first extended-range electric truck with manufacturer VIA Motors at three Bay Area National Plug-In Day events—in San Francisco, San Rafael and Cupertino—on Sunday. The gasoline engine extends the range to 350 more miles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

BAE Systems has more than 10,000 electric-hybrid systems in service around the globe including major cities such as Paris, London, New York, and San Francisco. Every year its systems travel more than 330 million miles and transport nearly 2 billion people.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2020

miles to 9.4 Total volume first dropped nationally on 13 March, with major drops beginning the next day. The decline in national passenger traffic volume is directly tied to a decline in total trips, with distance-per-trip increasingly slightly from 9.2 That has not been the case with this decline.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Clean Fleet Report recently had the opportunity get behind the wheel for a couple hours during media event in San Francisco. Driving Experience The route we took Departing downtown San Francisco, on a wind-driven rainy morning, we headed south along Highway 1 to Half Moon Bay, and then over the mountains to Woodside.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

With California having approved the contentious expansion of driverless robotaxis operating in San Francisco , autonomous test vehicles showed their readiness by stalling themselves in the middle of town. Cruise has said it plans eventually to deploy thousands of robotaxis in San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Tesla drivers leave San Diego this morning from San Diego, will celebrate the next morning at Crissy Field in San Francisco, and roll into Tesla Seattle Sunday evening for a celebration at the finish line. Start-to-finish drive distance is about 1,245 miles (2,004 km).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2013

San Francisco-based Esurance chose 50 Fusion Hybrids for its national claims fleet. Fleet operations teams can put an average of 24,000 miles annually on a vehicle throughout its service; durability, resale value, technology and cost savings are all major factors in purchase decisions for companies as they evaluate fleet options.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2016

Valeo’s Cruise4U partially automated car, previously demonstrated at CES in Las Vegas in January 2016, set off from San Francisco on a 13,000-mile road trip around the US that is scheduled to conclude back in San Francisco on 15 September.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Through its Cycle 1 California ZEV Investment Plan, Electrify America is developing a network of electric vehicle charging stations along highly traveled highways and in six California metropolitan areas which include Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. Montebello Plaza, 2401 W.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Final assembly—including the installation of the vehicle’s central powertrain unit and other electrical components, and a robust vehicle safety and quality inspection—are at a facility located approximately 30 miles from San Francisco. The 31kWh 2012 CODA mileage vehicle features 88 miles per charge EPA rating.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Waymo has launched a transit credit pilot program in Los Angeles, following initial tests in San Francisco last year. The program will be used to study how Waymo One is used by riders as a first- and last-mile ride-hailing solution that it hopes to help integrate with public transportation options to make them more accessible.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

The True Zero Network of stations spans from San Diego, throughout Orange County, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and out to Santa Barbara and Lake Tahoe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2022

As currently written, the bill requires CARB, on or before 1 January 2024, to develop a tool to calculate the average annual gallons of gasoline or diesel that a particular vehicle has used by using both: Publicly available data on the miles per gallon rating of the make, model, and year of the vehicle; and.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL.would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? miles (4.0 It is approximately 1.6 Transporting 7.4

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2025

.” Citing test drivers who are reportedly part of the program, Insider noted that Tesla’s tests involve accumulating critical miles. Tesla has launched an initial robotaxi service for its employees in Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area, though the vehicles only operate in limited areas. We've completed over 1.5k

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2014

more than 400 miles. Tesla will demonstrate this in the real world during a non-stop drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the early weeks of 2015. Tesla expects the combination of the three to deliver a 40-50% improvement on range between the original Roadster and Roadster 3.0.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Tesla Model S to be available in California at San Francisco and Los Angeles airports is the 85kWh model, capable of 265 miles on one charge. The all electric, zero emissions car can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 4.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Capable of running up to 100 miles on a charge, the vans have ultra-low floors to reduce physical stress on workers’ knees and back, and a high roof design that maximizes cargo space in a small footprint (1,008 cubic feet of cargo capacity). 100 miles all-electric range. The NGEN-1000 GEN 1000 supports up to 6,000 lbs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

Retail hydrogen-station operator True Zero reported that it has powered more than 1,000,000 zero-emission miles by fuel-cell vehicles. The achievement of a million miles comes as a result of automakers, including Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz expanding their fuel-cell-vehicle programs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

The service was expanded to North America as a pilot program in November 2011, and has been well received by Zipcar members in the pilot markets of San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Toronto and Washington, DC, with over 12,000 Zipvan trips taken to date.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The City of Chicago has awarded San Francisco Bay Area startup Motiv Power Systems a $13.4-million The 52,000-lb trucks, powered by a 200 kWh battery pack, will have a range of up to 60 miles. With a medium-duty pilot shuttle, Motiv reduced operating cost from 80 cents per mile ($0.80/mi) mi) to 10 cents per mile ($0.10/mi).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2012

Traffic congestion continues to worsen in California where, according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s annual Urban Mobility Report, Los Angeles and the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area rank No. In California, the cost to fully charge the Focus Electric at night is between $1 and $2, enabling 76 miles of average driving.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Early aggregate data collected through vehicles tied to MyFord Mobile show nearly 60% of total PHEV miles driven every day are in electric mode, and that there is an improvement in this figure over the first 30 days of vehicle ownership. More daily total miles. 84% of one-way trips are of distances 20 miles or less. Short trips.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Nissan has provided 10 all-electric Nissan New Mobility Concept vehicles to the Scoot Networks mobility service in San Francisco. The Nissan New Mobility Concept, also known as a Scoot Quad, is a battery-electric, two-seater compact vehicle with a range of 40 miles (64 km) and top speed of 25 mph (40 km/h), based on Renault’s Twizy.

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