The CEO of GM’s autonomous driving tech company Cruise Automation, Kyle Vogt, recently posted a video on Twitter of him and GM president Dan Ammann going for a ride in a self-driving Chevy Bolt EV in San Francisco. The video’s pretty interesting.
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Building on its ongoing self-driving tech pilot in Pittsburgh, Uber has begun trialling the use of autonomous Volvo XC90s in San Francisco.
Cities are where most of the world’s people live, and they can make the move toward cleantech and away from burning up the planet go much, much — much — faster. In fact, some policies could trump critical levers like ZEV mandates, and if adopted broadly, make the ZEV transition happen faster than most of us think possible.
Riding public transportation is a vital means of saving money, money that can much more happily be spent on other things than on owning, driving, and maintaining a car. Transit riders can forget about auto insurance, car payments, fuel costs, tuneups at the mechanic, expensive broken car parts, etc.
GM’s carsharing service, Maven, has expanded into the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver markets in recent days. The expansion means that the Maven carsharing service is now available in 13 different cities — the 3 aforementioned cities + Boston, Chicago, Jersey City (New Jersey), Baltimore, New York City, San Diego, Washington DC, Orlando (Florida), Detroit, and Ann Arbor (Michigan).
In this edition of the clean transport and energy news roundup, we’ve got a few stories about Nissan, an update on the Elon Musk impersonation attempt, electric motorcycles, a hydrogen fuel-cell ferry boat, BYD’s electric vehicles, Ford’s latest ‘last-mile’ clean mobility concept, solar in Hawai’i, solar for mobile and manufactured homes, and more.
The Obama administration has been on a role advancing EV charging across the US. The latest news from the administration is that the United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors. Thank you, President Obama, and we hope you and Michelle will be driving in an all-electric vehicle soon as well.
The expanding field of cleantech requires a new type of education, and University of San Francisco’s Energy Systems Management Degree hopes to bridge the gap for cleantech students, entrepreneurs, and business managers.
San Francisco’s Bay Area Bike Share program will be renamed Ford GoBike in early 2017, as part of a new partnership between the operating firm Motivate and Ford Motor Company.
