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One-Third Of All U.S. Hybrids Live In Just 15 City Areas

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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BMW DriveNow service launches in San Francisco

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... August 23, 2012 by  3


 
GM CEO Dan Akerson at the Volt battery fires hearing

GM CEO Akerson: We're Staying The Course On The Chevy Volt

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... March 8, 2012 by  23


 

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... December 9, 2011 by  5


 
First 2011 Nissan Leaf delivered to buyer, San Francisco, Dec 2010, photo by Eugene Lee

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... November 15, 2011 by  2


 
2011 Chevrolet Volt using Level 2 240-Volt charging station in Vacaville, California

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... May 10, 2011 by  7


 
First 2011 Nissan Leaf delivered to buyer, San Francisco, Dec 2010, photo by Eugene Lee

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... December 12, 2010 by  13


 
Better Place Battery Switching Test, Yokohama Japan

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... October 29, 2010 by  7


 
Prototype Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid being recharged at curbside station

SF Bay Area Soon To Be Home To 5,050 More EV Charging Stations

Infrastructure for electric transportation is heating up. Companies like Coulomb Technologies and Ecotality are already deploying electric vehicle charging stations region by... August 12, 2010 by  4


 
2011 Chevrolet Volt

Electric-Car Dealerships Struggle, But Why Such Surprise?

A recent article in the Oakland Tribune highlights the high failure rate of independent car dealerships selling only electric vehicles. Frankly, we're not at all surprised... March 1, 2010 by  5


 
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