Earth Day New York sponsor Enterprise CarShare will hit the runway and display one of its hybrid vehicles during the Green Vehicle Fashion Show at Manhattan’s Union Square Park, April 21. The company also said it will display its car-sharing technology. The annual Earth Day celebration is a free event designed to highlight various ways
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It’s been several years since the Tesla Roadster was introduced, and two years since the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf were launched. Other electric vehicles have come along as well, but as of last month, the U.S. market had purchased fewer than 46,000 electrified plug-in cars this year out of 13 million total vehicles. In
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France’s Minister of Industrial Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg, took delivery this week of the very First ZOE electric car. Montebourg had ordered his ZOE EV at the Paris Motor Show in September 2012 and was presented this week with the keys to the first ZOE in the Cour d’Honneur of the Bercy Finance Ministry by Carlos
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Although President Obama has mandated exclusive reliance on alternative fueled vehicles by government fleets, in practice these goals are proving tougher to truly implement. According to a report by Bloomberg Businessweek, higher costs associated with purchasing and maintaining hybrid and electric vehicles, along with lack of infrastructure, has resulted in federal agencies turning to conventional
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Yesterday, the City of San Francisco celebrated achievement of goals set by its 2008 Green Taxi law aimed at curbing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2012. These standards were set using 1990 levels as the baseline, and having hit the target of becoming the “Greenest Taxi City in America,” former
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Tepidly, Fiat-controlled Chrysler Group will test the U.S. compressed natural gas waters later this year with a small number of Ram CNG pickup trucks. In an interview with Business Week at the Detroit auto show last month, Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of both automakers, said, “We are going to bring them here, there is
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The California Air Resources Board has released a new plan seeking to make nearly 100 percent of new autos sold in the state zero-emission (ZEV) or plug-in hybrid (AT-PEZ) vehicles by 2040. In the meantime, California may seek to set regulations mandating that one-seventh of all new light duty vehicles sold there carry at least
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Last week Magna E-Car Systems and General Motors of Canada announced a joint project to evaluate a fleet of nine battery electric Chevrolet Equinox crossovers. The converted vehicles are to be studied by a number of interested stakeholders as a step toward possibly producing these types of electric vehicles. “Collaboration between automakers, suppliers, utility companies
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Yesterday GM announced it would make an electrified version of its Spark minicar – its first full EV since the EV1. The company said the Spark EV will start out as a limited production offering in select global and U.S. markets, beginning in 2013. “The Spark EV offers customers living in urban areas who have
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What will it take to speed the process of plug-in vehicle proliferation? Aside from consumer acceptance in the long run, it will require adoption by fleets in the near term, say electric vehicle industry stakeholders. This was the gist of a recent Reuters report by Maria Gallucci of InsideClimateNews, in which a number of reasons
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