article thumbnail

Proterra sells seven battery-electric transit buses to Nashville MTA

Green Car Congress

US-based Proterra Inc recently announced the sale of seven battery-electric buses and an electric charging station to Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (Nashville MTA). and delivered to Nashville this year. The buses are slated to be built at Proterra’s manufacturing facility in Greenville, S.C.

Nashville 268
article thumbnail

Nashville Latest City to Install Coulomb Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is the first municipality in the State of Tennessee to install and deploy Coulomb ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for plug-in electric vehicles. The charging stations are now installed in downtown Nashville in a new 700-space parking garage located on the Fulton Campus.

Nashville 186
article thumbnail

Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

Green Car Congress

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

St. Louis 510
article thumbnail

Bridgestone to debut race tire made with natural rubber from guayule

Green Car Congress

Firestone Firehawk alternate race tires made from guayule rubber will make their competition debut at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in Nashville on 6-7 August. The guayule race tire, featuring a new green sidewall, will be introduced during the Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge, streamed live on Peacock, on 27 May at 2:30 p.m.

Arizona 447
article thumbnail

Firestone Race Tires made with guayule rubber make INDYCAR debut; commercial use of guayule rubber in tires by 2030

Green Car Congress

Bridgestone made the competition debut of these Firestone Firehawk alternate race tires made with guayule at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in Nashville 5-7 Aug. Earlier post.). Bridgestone is using racing to demonstrate the performance of natural rubber by developing an all-new race tire with a sidewall made of guayule.

article thumbnail

AAA expands EV offerings with mobile charging, trip planning

Green Car Reports

The new pilot program offers mobile charging for free to AAA members in the following cities: San Francisco; Indianapolis; Philadelphia; Orlando; Nashville; More than a decade after launching a mobile EV charging pilot program, AAA is launching a second, larger-scale program that will offer mobile charging to members in 14 U.S.

article thumbnail

Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

Green Car Congress

Nashville, home of Nissan Americas headquarters and the plants that assemble both LEAF and its battery. In Nashville, Nissan gives credit to a robust charging infrastructure and a core group of employee enthusiasts who raised awareness of the practicality of the vehicle in the market in 2011.

2013 334