Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. Ultimately, the data and knowledge gained through FloodNet can be used by local residents, researchers, and city agencies to address flood risks.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Noseworthy, a seven-year Tesla veteran who oversaw the company’s charging design in the Northeast, will bring his expertise in charging development and customer experience to Revel’s growing fast charging network in New York, the Bay Area and other markets. Revel says it is actively pursuing several sites abandoned by Tesla in NYC.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

On 4 August 2020, a tropical storm knocked out power in many parts of New York City as well as neighboring counties and states. There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2021

Revel, a New York City-based ridesharing company, will launch its fleet of Tesla Model Y taxis in the Big Apple in early August after a mix-up with NYC’s regulatory agency, the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). The addition of Revel’s 49 Model Ys broadens New York City’s small fleet of electrified taxis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

In less than four months, Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand ( earlier post ), has grown to five markets: New York City, Ann Arbor, Mich., In Chicago, the Maven City car sharing program is now in operation, with pricing starting at $8 an hour including insurance and fuel.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 19, 2024

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

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. Operations will start just before Memorial Day weekend and run into the fall.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Chow has focused some his recent research on developing the infrastructure for charging electric vehicles throughout New York City. In fact, Chow's recent research coincides with a current pilot e-scooter program in New York City. NYU Tandon.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

They designed the tiling throughout with the New York City-based artist Shane Gabler, while a fresco depicting eels with earrings by the painter Claudio Bonuglia adorns a portion of the bar and lounge, which will open for evening service beginning this summer. Stratagems” is on view from May 3 through June 15, pacegallery.com.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 14, 2010

Which is how we ended up with these spy shots, taken by a reader on his mobile phone while walking through New York City's Gramercy Park neighborhood. Most spy shots show up on our sister site, MotorAuthority.com, but once in a while, sometimes they come directly to us here in green-car-land.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 30, 2023

It’s easy to see that there’s a connection between ridesharing and urban public charging, but as Revel COO Paul Suhey recently explained to Charged , the synergies run much deeper than are apparent at first glance—and Revel’s approach could prove to be a model for advancing EV adoption in cities around the world. We give them suggestions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2023

or New York City. She launched the first class in January 2006, and as she built Year Up’s presence in Washington, ­Boyea-Robinson’s work became a model for the organization nationwide, starting in New York later that year. That student was me,” she says, “with different options and choices.”

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A few years ago, finding that EV tech had advanced, Mack decided to build an electric truck for a long-time customer, the New York City Department of Sanitation. In New York City, it really hasn’t been their routes. If you think about New York, it’s all in a very dense area.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Demographic factors such as an overall urban population boom, the increase in urban single-person households and rapidly aging urban populations—the population age 65 and older in New York City, for example, is expected to increase more than 36% by 2030—will lead to significant changes in urban mobility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has launched field tests of Bosch Rexroth ’s Hydrostatic Regenerative Braking (HRB) parallel hydraulic hybrid system to assess HRB’s viability for use as an alternative drive system for the department’s refuse trucks. The hydraulic hybrid refuse truck. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 11, 2015

Because my father’s father was an illiterate Italian illegal immigrant who drove a truck in New York City his entire career, all undocumented workers are my family.

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Charged EVs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Millions of drivers around the world live in dense urban neighborhoods where they have no driveways, and thus no possibility of installing a home EV charger. New York City also has some chargers on the curbside. Those were made by a Canadian company called Flo, which sold the chargers to the city for them to operate. “In

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Millions of drivers around the world live in dense urban neighborhoods where they have no driveways, and thus no possibility of installing a home EV charger. New York City also has some chargers on the curbside. Those were made by a Canadian company called Flo, which sold the chargers to the city for them to operate. “In

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Mack electric truck is part of a $10-million program by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to reduce emissions by using zero-emission trucks in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx, which suffers from some of the worst air quality in New York City.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

Empire Corridor (New York City, Albany, Buffalo). Northern New England Corridor (Boston, Montreal, Portland, Springfield, New Haven, Albany). Joint 2006 study by the Center for Clean Air Policy and Center for Neighborhood Technology. Keystone Corridor (Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh).

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Baua Electric

MAY 25, 2024

In late 2022, as thousands of migrants began to arrive in New York City, city officials scrambled to find places to house them. Dozens of hotels, from once-grand facilities to more modest establishments, closed to tourists and began exclusively sheltering migrants, striking multimillion-dollar deals with the city.

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