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Waymo Is Now Giving 100,000 Robotaxi Rides A Week

21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"...more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix.

"The new 100,000 figure is double what the company has previously disclosed...[FOA]request from the California Department of Revenue revealed the company has 778 robotaxis under its deployment permit in the state

" Parent company Alphabet said in June it will spend an additional $5 billion on its self-driving subsidiary over the next few years."

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Oakland Is Now First In The US To Deploy A 100% Electric School Bus Fleet - And It's V2G

21 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"Student transportation platform Zum has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers...Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) supplied 2.7 megawatts (MW) of load to Zum’s Oakland EV-ready facility

"The 100% electric school bus fleet is not only emissions-free but also plays a critical dual role as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), giving 2.1 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy back to the power grid at scale annually."

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Data Show U.S. EV Sales Growth Outpaced The Rest Of The Auto Market In June

20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"...recent registration data from S&P Global Mobility shows that EV sales growth outpaced the rest of the automotive market in June.

"New EV registrations jumped 3.1 percent year over year in June, with 108,026 vehicles registered, while the market as a whole saw an 8.8 percent decrease to a little over 1.2 million units...Tesla led the charts as the brand with the highest number of registrations, outselling the next closest competitor, Ford, nearly tenfold."

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In Cuba, China's Drive For EVs Reshapes The Roads Of Havana

20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"Cubans across the country have started using Chinese-made electric cars and scooters...cost-effective mode of transport, as fuel prices remain high and public transport unreliable.

"China's Tianjin Dongxing Industrial, along with Cuban state-owned company Minerva, created Caribbean Electric Vehicles (Vedca), a joint venture that has quickly changed the face of transportation in the capital Havana."

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California's New Electric Train Makes For A Shockingly Better Trip - We Tried It

20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"By switching to electric trains, Caltrain...can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it's also just a better experience for riders.

"...a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an "electrical multiple unit," or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. "It's generating power throughout the system."

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Nordic Countries Sign Declaration To Advance Electric Aviation

20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"The transport ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden signed a key declaration on Wednesday to enhance cooperation in the development of commercial electric flights...Electric-powered aviation is vital for transforming the transportation sector.

"In November 2022, at a meeting in Fredrikstad, Norway, the Nordic transport ministers committed to establishing Nordic fossil-free air routes by 2030."

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Elon Musk Denies Sending A Tesla Cybertruck To Ramzan Kadyrov

20 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"...Anton Gerashchenko former Advisor to Ukrainian Internal Affairs claimed that this Cybertruck was sent to Kadyrov by Elon Musk

"The Cybertruck shown by Kadyrov also showed a machine gun mounted on its bed. Kadyrov also posed with this massive PKM machine gun wearing belts of its enormous-sized bullets.

"Musk officially denied sending a Cybertruck to Chechnya, Russia, or Kadyrov for any reason whatsoever."

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What A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean For Electric Vehicles

16 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"Harris has been vocally supportive of the administration's push to expand access and manufacturing of EVs in the U.S....While there is no federal electric vehicle mandate, the Biden-Harris administration has issued regulations calling on automakers to reduce emissions...If elected, Harris is expected to continue advocating for eco-friendly fuel and emissions standards, increase funding for research and development for EV technology..."

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'Massive Disinformation Campaign' Funded by Big Oil Is Slowing Global Transition To Green Energy

16 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"...assistant secretary general of the UN, Selwin Hart said that talk of a global 'backlash' against climate action was being stoked by the fossil fuel industry... findings of the biggest poll ever conducted on the climate, which found clear majorities of people [72%] around the world supporting measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...the consequences of inaction were being felt in rich countries as well as poor."

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More People Than Ever are Getting Injured on E-Bikes and E-Scooters - Here's Why

16 Aug 2024 | Synopsis

"Experts attribute the increase to the growing supply and popularity of these vehicles, along with low helmet use and risky behaviors such as riding under the influence.

"...study published in JAMA Network Open found that e-bike injuries nearly doubled every year from 2017 to 2022, going from 751 to 23,493...At least half a billion trips have been taken on them since 2010, and shared e-bike trips have nearly doubled from 9.5 million in 2018 to 17 million in 2021..."

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