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The money is a bet that more airports and cities will use the company’s computer vision technology to help manage increasingly busy curbside spaces. Automotus traces its roots to two college buddies in Los Angeles. -
Michigan Central in Detroit is quickly becoming a center for air and ground mobility innovation. The state Advanced Air Mobility Initiative, announced in July, aims to stimulate drone development.
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Lorain County Transit has received a $2.7 million federal grant to expand its Via Lorain County microtransit service. The offering uses intelligent algorithms to serve riders more efficiently.
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A company began construction Thursday on a $491 million production facility in Jefferson Parish that will make electric vehicle battery ingredients, the first plant of its kind in the United States.
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As Aurora Innovation’s trucks practice a route from Dallas to Houston, they have overcome all manner of tricky scenarios. Now, the company is preparing to pull their human backup drivers from the vehicles.
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Long Beach will look for ways to accelerate its transition to zero-emission vehicles for private and city-operated trash trucks to improve public health and save on long-term costs, officials said.
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The company’s new step-by-step wayfinding app is available to users of the Washington, D.C., transit system. It spans 11,000 bus stops on 325 routes, as well as 98 rail stations, and does not collect personal data.
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The Colorado Springs City Council on Tuesday voted 6-3 to expand electric bike access across parks and open spaces after another long discussion that represented the culmination of a yearslong debate.
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States are beginning to offer such programs in a pay-as-you-go format, as an alternative to the flat fees attached to electric vehicle and other high miles-per-gallon cars that pay little or no gas taxes.
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Waymo, the Bay Area technology company behind self-driving taxis, is doing test drives on San Diego streets — with drivers — as part of its broader effort to refine the technology in new landscapes.
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The Federal Highway Administration has announced plans to issue new guidance around the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. For now, the move halts aspects of the initiative.
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The city that has played a key role in the production of gasoline-powered vehicles is making plans to add the first electric vehicles to its municipal fleet and new charging stations for residents.
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A new report details how opening Tesla’s Supercharger network to all electric vehicles could increase the total number of available charging ports, without requiring the development of new sites.
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The Eureka City Council tossed a contract to install 21 automated license plate reader cameras throughout the city at a Tuesday meeting, with a vote that came after public opposition to the tech.
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Morgantown City Council has approved a three-year agreement with a Nashville-based company to provide an initial fleet of 12 autonomous mowers and the company's proprietary guidance software.
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Hydrogen-powered semitrucks are now navigating roads along Georgia’s coast, ferrying supplies and goods from the state’s ports to inland auto factories and construction sites.
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The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority is looking to expand its headquarters ahead of a methodic conversion to electric buses. The move will facilitate consolidating maintenance and operations in one location.
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Now under new leadership, the California High-Speed Rail Authority is set to move into a new phase of development. Plans are to begin train service in the Central Valley in five to eight years.
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The electric, self-driving vehicles prepare to merge onto California’s 405 freeway — but have already driven 1.9 million miles in L.A., since beginning there in November. They will, for now, carry staffers only.
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President Trump has promised to roll back aspirational carbon emission regulations aiming to incentivize domestic EV production as well as detailed policy changes he wants to push through Congress.
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Waymo, the California-based autonomous vehicle company, has brought a limited fleet of vehicles piloted by trained, human autonomous specialists to test on Las Vegas roads.
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