Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2021

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Municipal Railway (Muni) has awarded a contract to ElDorado for 30 electric hybrid E-Z Rider II model heavy-duty 30-foot transit buses, which will feature the Allison H 40 EP hybrid propulsion system.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

An autonomous Waymo car hit a cyclist in San Francisco yesterday – but luckily the cyclist had only minor injuries. Still, it’s bad news for urban cyclists , and for Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle division, which is already having a tough time shaking off the Cruise disaster.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Authorities in San Francisco are investigating a pair of Tesla Model Y fires as possible acts of arson. The post Tesla Model Y falls victim to apparent arson in San Francisco appeared first on TESLARATI. Firefighters responded to two separate locations in the city’s SoMa district early Saturday morning.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Audi is extending its Traffic Light Information (TLI) coverage to Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Some of the latest additions include New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Audi first brought Traffic Light Information (TLI) to production vehicles in 2016, with just a handful of connected signals.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Yesterday evening, an autonomous Waymo car was set on a fire in San Francisco. The moment was captured and recorded on social media by several bystanders.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 12, 2023

On Friday night, as many as 10 Cruise driverless robotaxis ended up stopping in San Francisco’s North Beach. The incident caused traffic to back up, and it left skeptics questioning the city’s recent decision to allow driverless robotaxis to operate 24/7 in San Francisco.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 2, 2023

San Francisco was supposed to have a vote the other day to expand Cruise and Waymo robotaxis services in the city. The problem is, some prominent agencies in the community claim that robotaxis services in San Francisco have been creating a number of problems. Others disagree.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2021

A hydrogen fuel-cell ferry is currently undergoing trials ahead of planned passenger operations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Owner Switch Maritime claims it will be the world's first commercial vessel powered solely by hydrogen fuel cells.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 29, 2023

General Motors’ Cruise has had an exceptionally tough 2023, but the company isn’t going down without a fight or, in this case, a massive lawsuit against the city of San Francisco. GM has paid San Francisco $108 million in taxes and $13 million in interest since 2016 and now wants it back.

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Teslarati

MARCH 25, 2023

A Cruise robotaxi operating without a safety driver recently collided with a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) bus. This incident highlights the need for Cruise to further optimize its robotaxi fleet in San Francisco for real-world use. There were no reported injuries.

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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2023

X no longer marks the spot in San Francisco. Following a weekend of complaints and criticism, Elon Musk’s social media company, X, formerly known as Twitter, has removed the massive lighted logo on top of its San Francisco headquarters. The installation of the lighted X logo received polarizing reactions.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

That changed earlier this week when one of its autonomous taxis struck a bicyclist in San Francisco , though it appears the situation might have even challenged human drivers. General Motors’ Cruise division has been in the news a lot lately, but Waymo has stayed mostly out of the spotlight.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

has successfully met and supported the launch of the San Francisco Green Zone requirement, using New Flyer Connect to execute GPS-triggered (geofencing) functionality with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and BAE Systems PLC (BAE). New Flyer of America Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 10, 2023

A hot topic in recent months has been the debate and political fight in San Francisco about whether or not to let robotaxis from Waymo and Cruise operate 24/7. I won’t go through all the details of the debate here since I’ve already done that in this article and this article, but the short summary […]

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Yesterday evening, an autonomous Waymo car was set on a fire in San Francisco. According to one eyewitness account from Michael Vandi provided to The Autopian, people were setting off fireworks (Lunar New Year was Saturday) on Jackson Street in San Francisco.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Waymo started in a corner of Phoenix, and then a corner of San Francisco, and it isn’t much beyond those starting spots still! Cruise Automation, aka Cruise, started in a corner of San Francisco. One criticism of lidar-using robotaxi startups has long been the limited geographies in which they operate.

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Electrek

JUNE 14, 2023

more… The post United Airlines to launch first electric commuter flights for San Francisco appeared first on Electrek. United Airlines and Eve Air Mobility revealed plans on Wednesday to launch the first electric commuter flights throughout the Bay Area.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2021

Amazon has begun testing the first of a planned 100,000 Rivian electric vans on delivery routes in San Francisco. The city is one of 16 where Amazon plans to deploy electric delivery vehicles in 2021, according to a company press release.

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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

MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Erhardt et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has selected BAE Systems to supply electric power and propulsion systems for its transit buses. BAE Series-ER (Electric Range) systems will operate on 68 transit buses and support designated green zone routes throughout San Francisco that are free of emissions.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

in San Francisco. It […] The post Electrify America Debuts First Indoor Flagship Station in San Francisco appeared first on Electric Cars Report. Electrify America, the largest open DC fast-charging network in the U.S., is opening of its first indoor flagship station available to the public at 928 Harrison St.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which operates MUNI (the city’s public transit), announced San Francisco’s commitment to have an all-electric bus fleet by 2035. One of MUNI’s newer 40' electric trolley buses.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 11, 2023

Waymo and Cruise received victories in San Francisco, with the two robotaxi providers receiving approval to operate their driverless cars 24/7 in the city. Ultimately, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted 3-1 in favor of allowing Waymo and Cruise to operate their robotaxis 24/7 in San Francisco.

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Electrek

JUNE 23, 2022

GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise, has begun its paid driverless taxi service in San Francisco and officially took its first fares last night. The post GM Cruise takes first fares for paid driverless taxi in San Francisco appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 25, 2023

In a recent video, The Kilowatts partnered with Whole Mars Blog (Omar Qazi) and Arash Malek to see what happens when Tesla’s FSD Beta, Waymo, and Cruise all compete to see who can get around San Francisco faster and with fewer problems.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Tesla is creating a simulation of San Francisco in Unreal Engine, which is primarily a video game engine, to test its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. The post Tesla is creating a simulation of San Francisco in Unreal Engine appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 10, 2023

Marine fast charge operator Aqua superPower announced the first installation of its electric boat fast charging stations in the San Francisco Bay Area at Westpoint Harbor, in Silicon Valley’s Redwood City. As a Clean […]

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Electrek

APRIL 10, 2022

Over the weekend, a GM Cruise converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. The post GM Cruise autonomous taxi pulled over by police in San Francisco without humans, ‘bolts’ off (U: Cruise responds) appeared first on Electrek. Cruise responded.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A driverless Waymo car collided with a cyclist in San Francisco on Tuesday but the bicyclist suffered only minor scratches and left the scene on their own, the company said by email. They said the San Francisco Police Department was investigating the incident.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Phillips 66, a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company, plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant would no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead would make fuels from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

GM’s Cruise driverless robotaxi service has been rolled out to San Francisco successfully, but the cars themselves have caused some headaches for motorists in the city. Just last week, at least three of Cruise’s robotaxis were reportedly responsible for holding up traffic in San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

GM’s Maven Gig ( earlier post ) is expanding its initial offering in San Diego to now include San Francisco. Maven has been operating on-demand ridesharing rentals in San Francisco since August 2016; more than 20 million miles have been driven in San Francisco and nearly 1 million rides have been given.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

An autonomous Waymo car hit a cyclist in San Francisco yesterday – but luckily the cyclist had only minor injuries. According to Reuters, a San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson said that a 911 call was made, but that the cyclist was not taken to the hospital and left the scene on their own. Get started today!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2018

The 2019 Audi e-tron, the first all-electric vehicle from Audi, will make its global debut on 17 September at an event in San Francisco. Audi will share more details on this ecosystem and offerings for US customers at the San Francisco event. Audi expects the e-tron in showrooms in the first part of 2019.

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Electrek

MARCH 30, 2022

Waymo has been inching its way toward fully autonomous rides for the population of San Francisco, and this week it’s taking a big step. Starting today, Waymo is conducting fully driverless taxi rides in San Francisco.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2022

After years operating only in a corner of Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo branched out to San Francisco in 2021. However, it is hasn’t been charging for its robotaxi service there. That’s about to change.

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