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When it comes to policy efforts aimed at promoting electric cars, the focus is usually on private passenger vehicles. But to cut carbon emissions in a meaningful way, policymakers will have to look at other types of vehicles as well. That includes the thousands of cars and light trucks in the municipal fleets of large cities. DON'T MISS: BYD partners with U.S. firm to launch all-electric garbage truck (Nov 2016) Four West Coast cities are now trying to address that with a "potentially record-breaking order" for electric cars, according to E&E News. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and...
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Fuel-cell ferry for San Francisco: feasible but expensive, U.S. study says
The U.S. Maritime Administration says a fuel-cell ferry would be much more expensive to operate than conventional diesel vessels.
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Tesla opens new electric-car store in San Francisco, to serve as flagship
Tesla opens its largest North America store as part of an overall retail push.
Stephen Edelstein -
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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What Cities Have Most Electric Cars In The U.S.?
A handful of cities claim the majority of the U.S. electric-car fleet, a new study finds.
Stephen Edelstein -
Test Pays BMW i3 Electric-Car Owners To Let Utility Delay Charging
BMW and a California utility will ask i3 owners to delay charging in certain situations.
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San Francisco's hydrogen ferry will be fueled by the world's largest hydrogen station.
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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Ferry For Bay Area, Electric Ferry In Norway
An experimental hydrogen fuel-cell ferry is being designed for use in San Francisco.
Stephen Edelstein -
Top 10 Cities For Electric Cars: San Francisco Leads, But It's Not All California
San Francisco is the top U.S. city for electric cars, according to ChargePoint.
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UberPool, Lyft Line Carpool Apps: More People, Same Number Of Cars?
Lyft and Uber both plan to put multiple customers in the same car.
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Smart Tipping Continues: Tiny Cars Upended In San Francisco, Again
Some trends are harmless: think hula hoops. Some trends don't hold up well in the harsh glare of history: think acid-washed jeans. And some trends constitute felony vandalism: think Smart tipping. After an outbreak in early April in which three Smart cars were turned over, another pair of Smart...
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New San Francisco Sport: Smart Tipping (Cows Are So Passe)
Smart ForTwo city cars are apparently quite easy to tip over.
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Different vehicles appeal to different markets. More than half of all Chevrolet Suburban extra-long full-size sport utility vehicles, for instance, are sold in the state of Texas. So where do plug-in electric cars tend to cluster? Not surprisingly, in progressive regions with activist governments that provide incentives for their adoption, whether purchase rebates and carpool-lane access or widespread public charging networks. The latest data comes from R.L. Polk, which analyzed national sales of all vehicles with plugs. Those include both battery-electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf and...
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One-Third Of All U.S. Hybrids Live In Just 15 City Areas
Prepare to be unsurprised: The U.S. West Coast features the highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicles across the country--with almost one in ten new vehicles sold in the San Francisco metropolitan area alone a hybrid. That's according to research group Polk, which warns that generalizing...
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Coda, Better Place Team Up To Make SF Electric Taxi Fleet
Back in 2010, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency was awarded a $7 million regional grant to oversee a fleet of 61 electric taxi cabs, complete with four battery sapping stations. Two years later, neither the taxi cabs, nor the battery swap stations have been launched. According to...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
ZipCar Adds 2013 Honda Fit EV To San Francisco Car-Share Fleet
If you live in a busy city and don’t use a car on a daily basis, making use of a car-sharing service like ZipCar is certainly one of the greener ways to get behind the wheel of a car when you need to. It’s no surprise then, that ZipCar’s fleet already includes some of the greenest...
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New Site For SF Bay Area Makes Buying Electric, Plug-In Cars Easy
Researching a new car can be hard work, especially with niche market vehicles like electric cars and plug-in hybrids. With test-drives, news reports and general information, we provide buyers with a nationwide view of plug-in and green cars, but now a new website is offering car buyers in the San...
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BMW Launches ActiveE DriveNow Electric Car Sharing In San Francisco
We quite like the BMW ActiveE. It's a good-looking, comfortable, quick electric car, and its existence will help develop BMW's first true electric production car, the 2014 BMW i3. Now, thanks to BMW's car sharing service DriveNow, residents in San Francisco will also get to enjoy the ActiveE's...
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If the Chevy Volt is a sales failure, you'd never know it from the guy who runs General Motors. At a meeting of Volt owners in San Francisco yesterday, GM's CEO Dan Akerson said unequivocally that the company was standing behind its halo plug-in electric car. "We are not backing away from this product," he told the assembled Volt owners. Akerson had earlier said, both during a Congressional hearing and on GM's VoltAge blog, that the Volt was designed as a safe, state-of-the-art car, not a "political punching bag." "Although we loaded the Volt with state-of-the-art safety features, we did not...
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First Production 2012 Mitsubishi 'i' Delivered In San Francisco
December seems to be the month when new electric-car makers manage to squeak their first deliveries in under the wire. Last year at this time, Nissan delivered its first Leaf electric car in San Francisco on December 12, with the first Chevrolet Volt following on December 18. This year, it's the...
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San Francisco Gives Electric Car Love, Starts “EV Council”
It’s a known fact that certain areas of the U.S. are better known for their love of the electric car than others, but San Francisco wants to go one better with a bid to become the electric car capital of the entire U.S. In order to achieve this, elected official and local business leaders in...
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San Francisco Will Juice Your Electric Car For Free
The city of San Francisco, California, will install electric vehicle charging stations in publicly-owned garages and at San Francisco International Airport by the end of the year that drivers can use for free until 2013. The plan involves dropping around 90 charging stations across the city in the...
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First 2011 Nissan Leaf Delivery, To Northern Californian Buyer
The first page of a new chapter in green-car history was written yesterday, as Nissan formally handed over a 2011 Leaf electric car to Olivier Chalouhi of Redwood City, California. He was the very first person in the U.S. to order the all-electric vehicle, and the first to take delivery. Leaf...
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Want to Hail An Electric Taxi Cab? Head for San Francisco
Urban taxi service may be the equal of any proving-ground torture test. Taxis are driven hard, up to 20 hours a day, and must handle both bad roads and bad drivers. Those that survive without falling apart should do fine in civilian duty. Which is why Better Place chose Tokyo to test out its...
John Voelcker