Peterbilt Unveils New Electric Truck Models While Dispute With California Continues
Peterbilt has unveiled four new medium duty electric trucks powered by a battery-electric powertrain from PACCAR.
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The Appeal Of Vintage-Style Electric Cars Is About To Be Tested In California
MOKE electric cars are coming to the US, starting in California where the company aims to fill the demand for fun, open-air EVs with a vintage flair.
Now A Woman Has Given Birth In A Waymo
While this is a kind of “gee-wiz” story that just catches one’s attention, it does bring up an interesting point or three. Increasing Passenger Safety via Robotaxis First, the news: A lady hailed a Waymo robotaxi to the UCSF (University of California–San Francisco) Medical Center on Monday, and on the … [continued]
Largest Utah Coal Plant Goes Quiet as Los Angeles Goes Coal-Free
Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California — is no longer operating, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power quietly pulled the plug just before Thanksgiving. The shutdown happened with … [continued]
Another EV Charging Hub Running On Renewable Energy Launches In California
It was just several days ago that I wrote an article about Tesla launching a huge EV charging hub that runs on solar power. Today I found another one. Though, it actually launched a little before the Tesla one. It’s a new hub with 18 fast chargers for fleet vehicles. … [continued]
Over 2,000 New Public EV Chargers Planned Or Installed In California In November?
It was just several weeks ago that the planned installation of 750 to 800 public EV chargers was announced in San Diego. Not long afterwards, an announcement about 850 or more planned public EV chargers was made for Central and Northern California. The joint EV charging venture IONNA also made … [continued]
Largest Tesla Supercharger Hub Opens — Is Powered By Solar
Tesla’s largest Supercharger hub has been officially launched and it runs on solar power with battery storage. The Lost Hills, California, charging hub has 164 V4 Supercharger stalls, which deliver over 300 kW of electricity each. The new hub is also mostly off-grid. As explained in an X post, “Our … [continued]
Waymo IS Entering San Diego, and More
Waymo confused people a bit on Friday, while announcing new territory it will be going into. As I wrote the other day, Waymo’s new custom-designed Zeekr robotaxi has been spotted in San Diego. Waymo doesn’t offer service in San Diego, though. That said, San Diego is one of the most … [continued]
Over 850 New EV Chargers Planned For Northern & Central California
The steady stream of good EV charger news keeps coming — this one is for over 850 new public chargers planned by IONNA for northern and central California. “A huge thank you to Mayor Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉, Senator Scott Wiener, City Attorney David Chiu, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Commissioner David Hochschild, … [continued]
New Waymo Robotaxi Custom Built By Zeekr Spotted in San Diego
Finally! Waymo partnered up with Zeekr awhile back to develop custom-designed robotaxi vehicles for Waymo’s operations. It was a bit of a funny partnership, since Waymo is a US company focused on the US market and Zeekr is a Chinese EV startup. If that wasn’t odd enough in a vacuum, … [continued]
