Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2022

The all-electric BMW iX and i4 are the first BMWs with available 5G support via Personal eSIM. Personal eSIM allows a customer to add a BMW iX or i4 to an existing mobile phone plan, thus taking advantage of the vehicle’s 5G antenna and enabling an in-car WiFi hotspot.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A Waymo self-driving Jaguar I-PACE robotaxi was set ablaze and vandalized by a crowd in San Francisco on Saturday evening. This reportedly resulted in a person jumping into the hood of the car and breaking the vehicle’s windshield. As per The Autopian , there was a small traffic holdup with a Waymo in front of it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2014

Android Auto made its debut at the 2014 Google I/O annual technology conference in San Francisco as the first innovation resulting from the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA)—a coalition of tech companies and auto industry leaders launched in January by Google, NVIDIA, Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai committed to bringing the Android platform to cars.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The incident took place in San Francisco (Fifth Avenue just south of Market Street) and has already become the subject of some rampant speculation as the company hopes to avoid another public relations nightmare. But there’s a lot of bad blood between San Francisco residents and the recently expanded robotaxi services.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Starting with its first project in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company plans to install and operate stations across urban retail shopping centers and other places near where EV drivers live and work. 350Green is planning a national network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with fast chargers.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

“While not an easy decision, we are focused on combining efforts with General Motors to accelerate autonomy at scale on personal autonomous vehicles.” Authorities arrived on scene and used the Jaws of Life to lift the vehicle off the pedestrian, before rushing them to the hospital, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2020

Italy, the first nation to lockdown, traffic dropped 65% overall, 70% in personal vehicle travel. Total volume first dropped nationally on 13 March, with major drops beginning the next day. In normal times, volume changes move incrementally, IINRIX said—almost undetectable day-by-day. That has not been the case with this decline.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

Among these flights were the three most frequently flown routes in the United Sates (New York to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to San Francisco, and Chicago to New York); the shortest flight that is code shared with a major U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 9, 2025

Academy of Art Universitys Auto Museum Cars To Be Auctioned A majority of the automobile collection from the San Francisco Academy of Art University will go under the gavel at auction next month (February 15, 2025). San Francisco, CA 94109 on Thursday and Friday, February 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. local time.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

DriveBox allows renters to reserve, find, and unlock a car in minutes all from a smartphone, without having to meet with the owner in person. Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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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. It says it also performed similar evaluations through its pilot program in San Francisco, which launched in October. credits to riders who connect to seven eligible transit stations.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Ford Motor Company plans to open a Silicon Valley-based Research Lab—its first dedicated R&D office on the west coast—to scout for new technology and to find new partners to innovate personal mobility solutions for the future.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous taxi division, can’t seem to keep its vehicles out of trouble, as they keep crashing into things in their home test city of San Francisco. Last night, a taxi crashed into a fire truck , sending one person to the hospital.&

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal, delayed the scheduled deposition with Elon Musk over personal reasons, The New York Post reported , noting that this sparked a bit of speculation of a settlement reached between the two sides. The post Twitter CEO delays deposition with Elon Musk over personal reasons appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, and Uber Technologies, Inc., The 90-day pilot will launch in San Francisco as part of Uber’s Vehicle Solutions program, which provides driver-partners flexible options to access vehicles they can drive on the Uber platform. with more on the way.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

General Motors will add more than 1,100 new jobs and invest $14 million in a new research and development facility for Cruise Automation in San Francisco. These investments will allow Cruise Automation to expand development of self-driving technologies that will transform personal mobility. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2017

Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, has expanded its offerings to include a new monthly service, Maven Reserve. The curated Maven Reserve experience includes a dedicated parking space for the duration of the reservation and a personalized walk-through of the vehicle. and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Among the many future potential routes for United are Newark to London in just three and a half hours, Newark to Frankfurt in four hours and San Francisco to Tokyo in just six hours. Overture will also be designed with features such as in-seat entertainment screens, ample personal space, and contactless technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Spontaneity, personalization and customization is core to the Audi at home service. The first program, called Audi on demand, started in San Francisco last April as well. The Audi at home fleet currently includes the S7, S5 Cabriolet, SQ5, TT Roadster, Q7, and RS5 Cabriolet. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Entries were judged on various criteria: creative adaptation of nature’s laws (plants & animals); application of human intelligence to Biomimicry in unique ways to improve the efficiency of future vehicles; comfort, convenience, aesthetics of the vehicle; sustainability of the building, servicing, operation, and life cycle; and the personality of the (..)

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The EV’s homes are as might be expected, in the more populous and wealthier pockets of the San Francisco Bay Area and sprawling Los Angeles region stretching down to San Diego. The post Personal: One in a Million first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. The cars Californians choose set the tone for EV sales for 2021.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2017

GM’s Maven Gig ( earlier post ) launched in San Francisco in November 2016 to provide vehicles for rideshare drivers; it since expanded the offering for package, grocery and food delivery drivers. Maven Gig is expanding geographically, and provides vehicles for freelance drivers in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2018

In a new study, NREL researchers focused on the key observability aspects of new modes and the rate of shifts in mobility patterns across airports in the regions of San Francisco, Portland, Denver, and Kansas City—all US DOT Smart City Challenge finalists. —Josh Sperling, NREL co-author.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Data that MSU plans to collect and analyze from the bus includes V2I (vehicle to infrastructure) communication technologies as well as experiential learning from persons with disabilities to inform future design considerations. The bus represents one of the largest electric autonomous transit vehicles to be deployed on US roadways to date.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

Audi this week demonstrated some of the early concept results of the Audi Urban Intelligent Assist (AUIA) project to media in San Francisco. Earlier post.). The demonstration focused on two primary applications: Driver Centric Urban Navigation and Urban Assistance. —Mario Tippelhofer, Senior Software Engineer, ERL.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2015

The premium service is currently available in San Francisco as part of a beta program and will be rolled out across additional US cities in the coming years. Customers are able to lock and unlock their vehicle, as well as enable driving via the Audi on demand app or via a personal key card.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2010

The Martinez charging stations will be available for use by consumers for their personal electric vehicles, as well as by City staff to charge the City’s fleet of four electric vehicles used for local transportation in the downtown area.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Insurers get a more precise view of each and every driver that can help personalize coverage, deliver precision risk assessments, reduce fraudulent claims and provide enhanced urban mobility services for commercial fleets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2023

LADOT is a member of the Open Mobility Foundation (OMF) which includes the cities of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Miami-Dade County, and is committed to tackling common problems through shared technology.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Monday I’ll be flying up to San Francisco for a meeting with the California State Park Foundation to see how we might partner with them. I have no excuse for my ugly and excessive flying carbon footprint and only the carbon offsets I purchase ease any of my guilt.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

UAM combines Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) and urban air mobility services to make airspace available for transportation. UAM, PBV, and Hub are solutions that will help alleviate pain-points in big cities like San Francisco. Hyundai also unveiled its first concept Personal Air Vehicle today, named ‘S-A1’. Concept PAV S-A1.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

The acquisition of Cruise is GM’s latest step toward its goal of redefining the future of personal mobility. Founded in 2013, Cruise has moved quickly to develop and test autonomous vehicle technology in San Francisco’s challenging city environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

which is headquartered in San Francisco, at the end of December 2012. GottaPark customers can already reserve parking spaces online from a pool of more than 300,000 parking spots in eight US cities (San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Houston, Boston, Chicago, and Miami), as well as in Vancouver, Canada.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 17, 2023

San Francisco lets in drivers and automobiles, takes fingerprints, drug-tests drivers and problems a written examination, amongst alternative necessities. Not like with taxicabs, the dimensions of a robotaxi fleet can’t be regulated through San Francisco’s issuance of medallions to keep watch over congestion.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

With the personal transportation ecosystem poised for disruption, its unclear if OBDs or smartphones will serve as the platform for technological innovation. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, CA, Zendrive is striving to make driving better, safer, and more efficient for everyone through improved data and analytics.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The concept of intermodal routing is enhanced by the DriveNow package available in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and San Francisco. They get a guaranteed parking space at a clearly defined rate based on the personal preferences of the driver. There are currently 14 ParkNow stations installed in and around San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

RelayRides pioneered peer-to-peer car sharing when it launched in Boston in June 2010 and expanded into San Francisco later that year. —Shelby Clark, RelayRides founder and Chief Community Officer.

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