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Tesla integrates Uber driver navigation directly into its vehicles

Baua Electric

Tesla and Uber have launched an in-car integration of ridesharing navigation directly into its Tesla vehicles for Uber drivers. Many have been deployed in Uber’s fleet through Hertz’s deal to buy 100,000 Tesla vehicles , and Uber and Tesla worked together to offer drivers discou nts.

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Visa extends Visa Token Service to automakers to enable car-based commerce; Honda Developer demo partner

Green Car Congress

is making the Visa Token Service available to auto manufacturers, helping to pave the way for easy and secure car-based commerce. Additional features include: Fuel App Concept: Pay for gas in one click without leaving the car. The fuel app detects when the car is low on fuel and navigates the driver to nearby gas stations.

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A $275 Bus Ticket to the Hamptons

Baua Electric

The Hamptons Streamliner is a partnership between Blade and the Jet, a high-end coach service between New York and Washington, D.C., which supplied the two buses being used for the new transit service. Each bus cost about a million dollars to buy and outfit, said Chad Scarborough, the founder of the Jet.)

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Lucid CEO says its Air has hit efficiency of 5 miles per kWh and ‘no one else is even close’

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The 2024 Lucid Air Pure / Source: Scooter Doll Lucid hits 5 mi/kWh efficiency milestone but targets 6 next Speaking during the 3rd Annual Evercore ISI Global Clean Energy & Transitions Summit in New York City on June 12, 2024, Peter Rawlinson announced the efficiency milestone of 5 miles per kWh in a Lucid Air.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

You might not know it to look at them, but these two cars—one Swedish, one Chinese—share underpinnings and a parent company. Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. Starting in 2016, the Swedish brand has included plug-in hybrid versions of pretty much every new vehicle it sells in the US.

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Shell opens hydrogen filling station

Green Cars News

The second hydrogen filling station in the greater New York City area is now open for business with a third due to open later this month and one already operating there for a year. The third station will be located in the Bronx and has been developed with the New York City Department of Sanitation.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in the five-year period spanning 2011 to 2015, with ESCs being built into all new cars, the systems saved 7,000 lives in the United States alone. In the late 1980s, car companies had begun introducing basic traction-control systems in their high-end vehicles. According to the U.S.