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Last Mile Delivery Is Standardizing With Two Cubic Meter Roro Boxes For E-Cargo Trikes

May 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, bicycles, carbon emissions, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric bikes, electric micromobility, electric trucks, freight, Logistics, micromobility, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 22:55:30 +0000

In the past year I’ve been observing a trend that’s on at least a couple of continents. Delivery trikes now come without boxes of their own. The boxes are separate and they get packed in distribution centers with the intent of being delivered to a pickup point for an electric … [continued]

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Electric Trucks Are Already Lower Carbon Than Rail In Much Of North America

May 20, 2024 admin air quality, autonomous vehicles, California, Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean transport, climate change, Coal, daimler, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Europe, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, railroads, Shipping, tesla, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 16:39:26 +0000

In 2010, I was consulting to Canadian National Railroad, at the time with the legendary Hunter Harrison as CEO. It was one of many times my decarbonization proposals bounced off of organizations, something that’s been inordinately useful in helping me understand how hardcore businesses view the space. At the time, … [continued]

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Waymo Reaches 50,000 Paid Customer Trips A Week

May 19, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 00:33:27 +0000

Waymo has spent most of my adult life working on self-driving vehicles (originally under the Google brand, until about 7½ years ago). For a long time after it finally started offering robotaxi service for non-employees, the service was free. Since December 2018, though, Waymo has offered and slowly expanded commercial … [continued]

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Of Camels, Sponges, & Tesla’s Supercharging Team Firing

May 18, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, climate change, electric cars, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, elon musk, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, green economy, Manufacturing, supercharger, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla sales

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 20:15:39 +0000

A great deal of digital ink has been spilled on Tesla laying off a lot of its Supercharger team recently. I’m not in the business of commenting on Tesla and Musk’s every twitch and tweet, so I don’t have fourteen hot takes already. But I have a hypothesis and it … [continued]

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces 3rd Year of SMART Grants, Funding Transportation Technology & Innovation

May 16, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, department of transportation (dot), green economy, green jobs, investing in america, investment, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, usdot

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 22:57:04 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced today that it is accepting applications for the third year of its Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program. The SMART Grants Program was made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden on November 15, 2021. As … [continued]

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Daimler Truck Unveils Battery Electric Autonomous Freightliner eCascadia Technology Demonstrator

May 13, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, clean transport, daimler, daimler truck, electric semi-trucks, electric trucks, Energy Storage, freightliner, freightliner ecascadia, lithium-ion batteries, press releases

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 12:53:30 +0000

Daimler Truck is pursuing a vision of zero emissions and increased road safety by combining the two most promising technologies to deliver on that vision — battery electric drive and integrated autonomous driving technology — in one semi-truck for the first time in its history: the autonomous Freightliner eCascadia technology … [continued]

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Feds Target Tesla Over Autopilot & Full Self Driving Claims

May 11, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, nhtsa, policy & politics, sec, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving)

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 23:13:15 +0000

Tesla may be getting more attention than it wants from NHTSA, the Justice Department, and the SEC over its Autopilot and FSD software.

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Hyundai Will Invest Nearly $1 Billion To Keep Motional Viable

May 9, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Hyundai, motional, robotaxi, tesla, wayve

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 15:09:17 +0000

Hyundai has invested another $1 billion in Motional, a robotaxi company that wants to be first to market with a successful business model.

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Tesla Should Roll Out Ride-Sharing Service Before Robotaxis

April 28, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, tesla, tesla app, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), tesla ride-hailing network, tesla ridesharing, tesla robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:18:43 +0000

“I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year — not in all jurisdictions because we won’t have regulatory approval everywhere.” That’s a quote from Elon Musk, from April 2019. In fact, that’s almost exactly 5 years ago today, as Autonomy Day was April … [continued]

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Tesla Car Computers Could Be Monetized In Other Ways — Like Amazon’s Big AWS Jackpot

April 27, 2024 admin Amazon, autonomous vehicles, aws, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, investment, tesla, tesla computers

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:23:54 +0000

There was one part of Tesla’s shareholder conference call yesterday that caught my attention more than any other. That was partly because of the potential being discussed, and partly because it’s the first time I’ve heard Elon Musk and team discuss the topic. First of all, you’ve got this question … [continued]

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