Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

New York City Transit (NYCT), part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”), has awarded New Flyer with a contract for 15 low floor sixty-foot Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric, heavy-duty transit buses (or a total of 30 equivalent units or “EUs”).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has selected the Nissan NV200 as the exclusive taxi of New York City for a decade, beginning in late 2013. The City now will enter into final negotiations with Nissan to make the NV200 the first taxicab specially built for use in New York City.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

As the first quick charger in New York City on the ChargePoint network, the project marks a milestone for Midtown Manhattan and EV owners who have voiced the need for locally available charging infrastructure. Fuji Electric Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Azure Dynamics Corporation and Ford Motor Company announced that New York Power Authority (NYPA), the nation’s largest state public power organization, has been added to the LEAD customer program for the Ford Transit Connect Electric van.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded three cooperative agreements collectively worth more than $45 million to initiate the design/build/test phase of the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program. Selected in 2015, the Connected Vehicle Pilot sites include Wyoming, New York City, and Tampa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. OpenXC is an open-source hardware and software platform developed by Ford Research and Innovation and New York City-based Bug Labs. OpenXC architecture.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Ultra Service Agreement includes preventative and scheduled maintenance, towing and repair, a battery warranty and monitoring via Mack connected services in a single package that can include monthly payments. Updating the facility is also required.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Audi is committed to moving America in many ways, including through the development of industry-leading connectivity and mobility solutions. Houston, Kansas City, Kansas; Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, Fla.; Enabled metro areas include: Dallas, Denver, Gainesville, Fla.; Phoenix, Portland, Ore.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As part of the Department of Transportation (USDOT) national Connected Vehicle Pilot. It has been a core mission of the Department to support promising new technologies, and through these types of smart investments we are opening the door to a safer and cleaner network and expanding how future generations travel. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Verizon announced that Verizon has replaced 234 of its existing gasoline-powered vans with hybrid-electric vans for use in New York City. We thank NYSERDA for their partnership in helping to make this happen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Audi first brought Traffic Light Information (TLI) to production vehicles in 2016, with just a handful of connected signals. Now, five years later, with partner Traffic Technology Services, Audi has surpassed 22,000 connected intersections operated by more than 60 agencies around the US.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

The Ford Transit Connect small van has proven popular among U.S. In some cities, you're just as likely to find Transit Connect taxis plying the streets as traditional sedans—especially in taxi-rich New York City. But now Ford plans to put a new—and greener—spin on this workaday vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If a fraction of these vehicle trips were replaced with scooter and bike trips, American cities could reap significant benefits. Honolulu, Hawaii; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Nashville, Tennessee are the Top 3 cities with the greatest profile for micromobility to succeed and reduce vehicle trips in the US, according to INRIX.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

concentrations and particle composition from area samples collected in the subways of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York/New Jersey (NYC/NJ); and Washington, District of Columbia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The NYU-BMW i study— Urban Mobility in the 21 st Century —predicts a future where growing cities will be inhabited by populations that, although less likely to own cars, will increasingly utilize a new generation of smaller, more efficient, sustainable and networked vehicles to get around.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

If you regularly take cabs in New York City, there’s a change on the horizon: the familiar, bulletproof-but-gas-guzzling Crown Victoria taxicabs are disappearing, and 400 will soon be replaced by Ford Transit Connect Taxis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

Curb, a ride-hailing app for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North America, announced the execution of a strategic partnership agreement with Uber that will enable Curb-connected drivers to receive trip requests from Uber users.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. New studies continue to find that many drivers cruise for curb parking like hawks looking for prey.

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JUNE 28, 2011

FedEx Express is bringing new all-electric delivery vehicles to New York City, Chicago and Memphis, and diversifying the existing Los Angeles fleet. In Memphis, FedEx Express is retrofitting existing vehicles to make them all-electrics, saving resources through using existing vehicle bodies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Electrify America also will continue to invest in these Cycle 1 metros: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC. Bridgeport (CT) for the New York City market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2013

DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize. The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Coulomb’s ChargePoint is the largest online global charging network, connecting electric vehicle drivers to charging stations in more than 14 countries. BMW i Ventures, BMW Group’s venture capital unit based in New York City, invests in early and mid-stage high-potential companies in the area of Mobility Services.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2021

On this mission, Patania II is not connected to a riser pipe to bring the nodules to the surface, only the seafloor nodule collector is being tested and monitored at this stage. According to some estimates, the world’s building stock will double by 2060, which equals building a city the size of New York City every month for 40 years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

Today this V2I service is available at more than 10,000 intersections in North America, including some 2,000 in Manhattan/New York City and more than 1,600 around the US capital Washington D.C. Audi is also the world’s first automotive manufacturer to network its series-production models with city traffic lights.

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Electrek

JANUARY 3, 2025

Equinor has secured $3 billion to finance New Yorks Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which will provide power for 500,000 homes when it comes online in 2027. Its set to become the first offshore wind farm to connect directly to New York Citys grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2019

East Coast (Boston, New York City, and Miami). In New York City and Miami, regular retail gasoline prices were lowest in December, but prices in Boston were lowest in January. In both New York City and Boston, prices peaked in May at the beginning of the summer driving season.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

The new Ford lab will be located in the San Francisco Bay area of California and will serve as a hub for independent technology projects and identification of new research investments and partners located along the west coast. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

GM’s Maven is expanding operations in New York City with more than 80 Maven City car-sharing vehicles available throughout Manhattan for hourly or daily reservations. Maven has now rolled out in 17 cities across North America and its members have covered more than 125 million miles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2010

are partnering to bring smart fortwo electric drive vehicles to Connect by Hertz car sharing and Hertz Rent A Car locations in New York; Washington, DC; and San Francisco. The smart fortwo electric drive will be available for rent through Connect by Hertz car sharing in New York City beginning 15 December.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Archer Aviation and United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) announced their first airport-to-city-center route between United’s hub at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and New York City. Archer’s early launch routes will provide airport to city center transportation service, which it refers to as “trunk” routes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As more and more vehicles deploy Nauto, its connected car network will be populated with greater volumes of precise information on how drivers and vehicles behave and perform.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and Via, a provider of on-demand shared rides are partnering to offer an affordable, equitable, and accessible option to connect to major train and bus stations. The project is funded in part by the largest federal grant of its kind—a $1.35-million

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

Founded by a team of PhDs with more than four decades of experience in advanced electronics and battery systems, ION is building deep technology to optimize battery performance and life-extension for electric vehicles, energy storage, and connected devices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This collaborative effort to build 21 st -century streets was announced by Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford Motor Company, Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, and John Zimmer, Co-founder and President of Lyft at the second annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York City.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

A conference, “Against the Deluge: Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City”, was held at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn on 30-31 March. The concept would allow for a road to run along the top of the causeway connecting the two states. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Joining Electrify America in this initiative are SemaConnect, EV Connect and Greenlots. Employees with chargers at their workplace are six times more likely to drive a plug-in electric vehicle than the average worker, and chargers located at the workplace can potentially double an electric vehicle owner’s daily driving range.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2022

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, many research groups sought an effective method to determine mobility patterns and crowd densities on the streets of major cities like New York City to give insight into the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing strategies.

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