Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2015

Thieves in San Francisco are reportedly targeting Toyota Prius hybrids--and stealing only their battery.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2014

If you''ve never lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may not have heard of "Mr. Roadshow," the nickname of San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Richards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

b) Capacity Fade in Phoenix and San Francisco, using GPS data. For the vehicle, they used specifications similar to a Toyota Prius with a 5 kWh Hymotion ANR26650 LiFePO 4 /Graphite pack comprising cylindrical cells manufactured by A123 systems. Air cooling can increase battery life by a factor of 1.5–6,

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2010

In San Francisco at this moment there are, I believe, six deployed new J1772 charge stations. The third, occupied by a BAAQMD plug-in Prius, appears not to have gone anywhere, long ago charged to full. San Francisco spent tens of thousands of dollars installing these charge stations. Very exciting.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Sacramento is a perfect example of our inside out approach to developing markets that may not have the density of a New York or San Francisco. Zipcar is currently evaluating locations for a downtown office, hiring full time and part time staff, and aiming to become an entrenched part of the community.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - After a Saturday photo session with the "Spirit of DC" at San Francisco's Ft Mason Chapel near by the Flagpole with scenery abounding, the "Spirit" took a reconnoiter of the route South. now that it's so easy with normal PHEV operations with re-invigorated set of PbA.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Fans of the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius now have another reason to look forward to purchasing one, with news coming out this week that Gov. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) and. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure allowing up to 40,000 more motorists in the state of California to drive solo in carpool lanes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

The RAV4 EV will go on sale in late summer 2012 through select dealers, initially in four major California metropolitan markets including Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County and San Diego, with an MSRP of the RAV4 is $49,800. The battery warranty is 8 years or 100,000 miles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Availability of the Focus Electric will expand in 2012 to the remaining 15 launch markets as production ramps up. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.;

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2010

His story of using the iMiev around Berkeley and San Francisco reminds me why most of the time I wish I still had my Th!nk In a Prius, the trip would have cost something over $40. Like my beloved Th!nk nk City, only grown up. Chuck Squatriglia of Wired Autopia has got an iMiev for a couple of weeks. I'm envious.

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EV Life

AUGUST 28, 2020

For example, I grew up in a “Toyota family” and Toyota only has one electric vehicle available today: The Prius Prime. If I use EV Life’s Road Trip calculator to drive from San Francisco to Portland in the Hyundai Kona, I can see that I’ll need to make three stops along the way to recharge and spend about $45 on fuel.

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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. Toyota Prius Prime PHEV – 14,275. The cars Californians choose set the tone for EV sales for 2021. Tesla Model Y EV – 61,022.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Markets include California (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Fresno); Colorado (Denver); Florida (Orlando, Tampa); New York (Albany, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester); Oregon (Eugene, Portland); Texas (Austin, Dallas, Houston); Atlanta; Boston; Detroit; Minneapolis; Philadelphia; St. Louis; Seattle; and Washington, DC.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This includes hot testing in Death Valley, cold testing in Yellowknife, Canada, steep grade hill climbs in San Francisco and high altitude trips in Colorado. Like the Prius, Toyota designed the Mirai to be immediately recognizable. The Prius analogy. Our first major task.launch a new Prius, a new hybrid.

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Green Cars News

JULY 18, 2009

Well, that’s the theory but a study by San Francisco Quality Planning, which looked into hybrid car owners’ driving habits, suggests something different. Prius drivers for example, get 38 tickets per 100,000 miles driven compared to 23 tickets per 100,000 miles for drivers of conventional cars and trucks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Zipcar, the world’s largest provider of cars-on-demand by the hour or day, launched a pilot program for plug-in hybrid vehicles in its Bay Area fleet through a partnership with the city of San Francisco.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 28, 2011

Lo and behold, we spy two Coulomb J-plug/120V units, one with a plug-in Prius conversion plugged in. A brand spanking new South San Francisco municipal parking garage one block off Grand Ave. I waved my Coulomb card only to find the unit gave us a fault and wouldn't release the J-plug. sports four J-plug/120V units.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) About 55 miles from my place in San Francisco and 100 miles from Tom's on the Peninsula. In a Prius or Civic Hybrid at 50mpg, the trip would have cost about $30 in gas, tolls and parking in Sacto. They sued back then, too.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

P G & E plugs campaign for hybrid electric cars Joshua Sabatini The Examiner Sep 5, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Today’s hybrid cars, such as the Toyota Prius, use electricity generated by gasoline-fueled engines. wants its 5.1 A PHEV would cut a consumer’s gas cost down to $0.75 per gallon , advocates say.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that services San Diego and southern Orange counties. SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. Earlier post.)

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Mill Valley and San Francisco are planning electric car parades, EV shuttles and parties surrounding the movie’s release, and to bring it to the attention of elected officials. see [link] Plug-in Prius Makes Capitol Debut Plug In America is an active participant in many efforts to promote plug-in hybrids.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. UPDATE: Felix Kramer of Calcars informs me that the vacuum bottle is standard on 2004-2008 Prius.) To take one example, batteries. What is possible?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

In 2009, Levandowski used an autonomous vehicle to deliver a pizza through the streets of San Francisco. Many of these engineers also participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge which involved vehicles operating in an urban environment with defined routes but various fixed and moving hazards.

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Green Cars News

JULY 16, 2009

That’s the verdict of the third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-ins - SDG&E is a public utility that services San Diego and southern Orange counties. It tested the performance of two 2007 model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids using a Hymotion 5kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JULY 29, 2009

They created the Renew America Roadtrip that traveled from New York to San Francisco from July 15th – 31 st. EAA Board of Director member Jerry Asher joined the caravan and provided support with the “Spirit of DC” Plug-in Toyota Prius hybrid. The couple hoped to encourage the development of an electric car industry in the U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., I also have a gas-guzzler for when I want to go up to San Francisco or drive up to Colorado.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Hymotion www.hymotion.com Concord, Ontario, Canada retrofits the Toyota Prius.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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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. SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The A3 e-tron can cruise at up to 80 mph in all-electric mode; a spec we confirmed—with enjoyment—last week during a media drive in the San Francisco Bay Area. The A3 Sportback e-tron accelerates from 0-70 in a respectable 7.6 seconds—comparable to the 7.4 seconds of the 2016 A3 Cabriolet (1.8

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius. 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. They are innovators.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

EVJerry" Asher In January 2009, Michael Craner and Madushini “Maddy” Gunawardana started planning a cross-country roadtrip from New York City to San Francisco. This converted Toyota Prius is another type of Plug-in --a PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). Michael and Maddy employed multiple Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

“The Toyota Prius took over five years to reach break-even and has gone on to be a wild success.&# So the Volt would cost $32,500–not so much more than what people are reportedly paying for the Prius. and Chrysler. Sure, it can handle most commutes on the battery, but who commutes in this? It looks like an Epcot attraction.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

New York ranks as the third best-selling region for the car, behind only Los Angeles and San Francisco. This comes despite Toyota having launched a new Prius model last year. Ford ended 2016 with a record 17% share of the electrified vehicle market, up 3 points over 2015.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Toyota still has not made any money on the Prius. Another point; a Jetta diesel has near the same mileage as a Prius and the Jetta Blue TDI will exceed the Prius.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates. Neal is a partner at Jane Capital Partners , a San Francisco based merchant bank focused on cleantech, energy & environmental technologies. Carbon trading vs t.

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