Car Sharing
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Tesla indicated it will launch a sharing service called Tesla Network next year.
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Shanghai Disney Resort offers electric rental cars from SAIC
Chinese carmaker SAIC is providing vehicles for the Shanghai Disney Resort.
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BlueIndy electric car-sharing: after 9 months, how's it doing?
Car-sharing is growing, in urban areas, among the young and old, and as a way to avoid the expense of a second vehicle. Sharing electric cars, however, is still in its early days. But one of the most ambitious experiments is BlueIndy, an electric car-sharing service modeled after the AutoLib system...
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Your grandchildren won't fill their tanks—or even own cars: report
Electric cars will enable autonomous driving and sharing services, a new report says.
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Daimler's Car2Go carsharing service signs up 78,000 China users in 2 months
Car2Go had what is likely its most successful launch ever in the Chinese city of Chongqing.
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World's first fuel-cell car-sharing program to launch in Germany
A German industrial-gases company is launching a fuel-cell car-sharing program.
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A Florida city has become the nation's—and presumably the world's—first to subsidize Uber rides beginning or ending within its borders. Altamonte Springs, a suburb of Orlando, will cover 20 percent of any ride that starts or finishes within its city limits. Call Uber for a ride to SunRail, the region's commuter train system, in fact, and Altamonte Springs' government will pop for 25 percent of an Uber fare. ALSO SEE: Uber CEO would buy 500,000 autonomous Teslas The public-private partnership between Altamonte Springs and Uber is being touted as a low-cost alternative to subsidized...
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BMW ReachNow car-sharing service offers i3 electric cars in Seattle
BMW re-launches its car-sharing service in the U.S. with a new name and other changes.
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San Diego Car2Go car-sharing service drops electric Smarts for gasoline models
Car2Go will switch its all-electric San Diego Smart Fortwo fleet to gasoline models.
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Ad-Supported Car Sharing Gives 2 Electric-Car Hours Free In LA
WaiveCar lets users rent a Chevrolet Spark EV for two hours free, and pays for it with ads.
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Faraday Future Asks: How Would You Invent A Car With A Clean Sheet Of Paper?
Faraday Future hints at what its electric car might be like.
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Is An Electric Scoot Quad (Nee Renault Twizy) Car-Sharing's Urban Future?
In San Francisco, driving a bright-red tandem two-seat electric Renault Twizy gets you noticed--by everyone from sweet little old ladies to skate punks. Even on Castro Street. On Halloween. We spent a weekend with the low-speed electric vehicle, which is just being added to the Scoot Networks fleet...
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It seems like something out of a movie: a mysterious startup company operates for a few years in total secrecy, then drops plans for a billion-dollar factory that will build electric cars. But that's the summary of the secretive Faraday Future, about which a bit more information slipped out last week. Faraday (it suggests you call it "FF") issued a press release last week saying it would spend $1 billion on the factory, with production of its first vehicle to start in 2017. DON'T MISS: Faraday Future Plans $1 Billion Electric-Car Factory, Site TBD That in itself seems challenging--24 months...
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BlueIndy Electric Car Sharing Systems Opens Today In Indianapolis
The BlueIndy electric-car sharing service is now open in Indianapolis.
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Japanese Hot Springs Maintain Serenity With Nissan Leaf Electric Cars
Nissan Leaf electric cars will be used for a new car-sharing program in rural Japan.
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Could Tesla Add Autonomous Electric Car-Sharing As New Business?
The quarterly earnings conference calls held by Tesla Motors are always intriguing, and so it was with last week's second-quarter update. Financial analysts focused on the company's numbers--it's still losing money as it invests, and a fresh capital raise seems inevitable--but another topic raised...
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Car2Go Cutting Out Portland's Lower-Income, Racially Diverse Areas?
The Daimler-owned car-sharing operation Car2Go recently announced that it was massively reducing its coverage area around Portland, Oregon. According to the company, it’s simply a smart business move, one that will keep cars in areas where they’ll be more likely to be used frequently...
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Los Angeles Gets State Grant To Test Electric-Car Sharing Program
Los Angeles will start an electric-car sharing pilot program in working-class neighborhoods.
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It always seemed unlikely, but the BlueIndy electric-car sharing program is getting closer to its rollout in the Midwestern city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The French-made Bollore BlueCar electric two-seaters are closer to arriving, and groups of Level 2 charging stations are popping up at curbsides all over the central city. And that has led to growing opposition from local businesses over that most precious (and contested) of American commodities: parking. DON'T MISS: Indianapolis Electric-Car Sharing: We Drive BlueIndy's BlueCar (May 2014) As detailed in a long piece in the Indianapolis...
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Solid-State Batteries Already Powering Electric Cars: BlueCars, In Fact
Bolloré hopes to use car sharing to jump start its solid-state battery business.
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Electric Cars Are City Cars? Not In U.S.: They're Suburb Cars Here
Automotive journalists who write about electric cars hear the phrase "city car" a lot. As in, "Battery-electric cars are perfect city cars, but [fill in different powertrain] is required for other uses." There's just one problem: No one in the U.S. has ever turned to their better half and said...
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Portland Car2Go Car-Sharing Fleet To Get Bike Racks
Would you be more likely to use car-sharing if you could bring your bike along? For Portlanders, that will soon be a real possibility, as 250 vehicles in its Car2Go fleet will get bike racks. Portland was one of the first U.S. cities with significant car-sharing fleets; and it was one of the first...
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Car Sharing Awareness Grows: 1 In 5 Americans Has Used It Now
About 18 percent of Americans have used a car-sharing program, according to new data.
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Which City Wants To Make Privately-Owned Cars Obsolete?
Helsinki plans to eliminate private cars with well-coordinated public transportation options.
Stephen Edelstein