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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

Green Car Congress

Following a successful pilot program, BMW Group has launched ReachNow, a free-floating premium car sharing service, in Seattle. The initial fleet of 370 vehicles, including the BMW i3, the BMW 3 Series and the MINI Cooper, will be located on the streets of Seattle for immediate use. Vehicles on-hand at the airport.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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MIT study measures which kinds of infrastructure improvements could get more electric cars on the road

Green Car Congress

They also found that adding on high-speed charging stations along highways and making supplementary vehicles more easily available to people who need to travel beyond the single-charge range of their electric vehicles could greatly increase the vehicle electrification potential. A paper on the findings is published in Nature Energy.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We thank our partners for your wide range of support in this important endeavor and are grateful for everyone’s efforts and dedication in making this campaign an overwhelming success to this point. The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle. Lidar is a laser-based technique for estimating range to an object, while photogrammetry is 3D information extracted from photographs.)

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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A 350 kW charging system could charge a 200-mile range battery in less than 10 minutes. City of Seattle. DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge has grown to more than 350 partners since its launch in January 2013, and is on track to meet its goal to partner with 500 United States employers by 2018. Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Con Edison.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Subsequently, McNeil traveled to Seattle to purchase an already converted AMC Hornet 4-door sedan, and then towed the car back to Colorado. “I When folks would find out the car had a 40-mile range, that was the end of discussion. It wasn’t just range anxiety, it was range phobia.” We began with displays in shopping malls.