Tag: Transportation
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Electric Bike Sales Soar Worldwide
[caption id="attachment_311115" align="alignright" width="359"] Photo credit: Pressebild Eurobike[/caption] While data from the National Bike Dealers Association shows that Americans bought nearly 19 million bicycles in 2012, electric bike sales finished at less than 1 percent of that amount However, the 159,000 e-bikes sold from 2011 to 2012 in the U.S. still show plenty of growth.…
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America’s First All-Electric School Bus Coming to California
The first all-electric school bus could be picking up California students by 2014. Trans Tech Bus and Motiv Power Systems debuted the bus at the recent 2013 National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) Annual Summit in Grand Rapids, MI. The two companies collaborated on the bus for the Kings Canyon Unified School District in the San Joaquin Valley of California. “An electric bus can save a…
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Smart Parking Solutions Can Reduce Emissions, Transform Cities
By Greg Rucks and Laurie Guevara-Stone [caption id="attachment_309880" align="alignright" width="400"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] Searching for a parking space is a routine (and often frustrating) activity for many people in cities around the world. This search burns about one million barrels of the world’s oil every day. There are also four parking spaces per vehicle in…
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8 Governors Pledge 3.3M Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2025
A group of like-minded governors on both sides of the nation pledged this morning to get millions of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) on the country’s roads by 2025. Governors from eight states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—said they would do their part to encourage drivers to buy ZEVs to total 3.3…
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EV Advocate Paul Scott Films Documentary ‘My Lunch With Obama’
The advocate who was on the cusp of a one-on-one discussion with President Obama figures the big screen is his best chance to inform the nation’s leader about the benefits of electric vehicles (EV). This week, Plug In America co-founder and Nissan LEAF salesman Paul Scott announced the production of a documentary, My Lunch with Obama.…