Urban Mobility
Driving in Seattle or from Seattle to areas in the Puget Sound is a drive in congestion — a drive in overwhelming lanes and lanes of cars. Ridership has boomed more than expected on light rail in Seattle, and perhaps this is a reason why. The regional transit authority now has more plans to grow this more efficient option — plans for the third phase of
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TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2016 /CNW/ – Have you heard of Senior Living Sector? It’s basically a retirement home for old folks like the state of Florida except that Senior Living Sector comes with long term care and assisted living. Uber Canada and Senior Living Sector Provider Revera are testing a new and innovative way for retirement home residents to get where they need
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Aug. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Peter Welch, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, and Annette Sykora, chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation, arrived in the flood-ravaged areas of Baton Rouge, La., and announced they would seek to raise $2 million for new-car dealership families displaced by the flooding there. Welch and Sykora are meeting this week with dealers and dealership
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AAA offers roadside assistance vehicles capable of giving electric car drivers a boost if they ran out of electrons while on the road. AAA currently has about 54,000,000 members. Each year, it gets over 32 million calls to help stranded motorists — half of them from drivers who have run out of gas. It seemed likely to AAA management that drivers of
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The Japanese brand aims to release a midsize All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) vehicle based on its Forester or Outback crossover, Japan’s Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun reported Aug. 8, without identifying the source of the information. Subaru plans to launch an all-wheel-drive electric crossover in the U.S. by 2021 to meet more stringent emissions regulations, a Japanese newspaper reported. The new model is expected to ride
Read moreTesla Motors Inc. is scrambling to finish building its massive $5 billion battery factory here years ahead of schedule to meet demand for its coming cheaper sedan and provide power for new types of vehicles Chief Executive Elon Musk says are under development. Tesla has doubled the amount of people constructing the “gigafactory,” which sits on more than 3,000 acres
Read moreThe new head of Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit confirmed the German auto maker plans to build electric vehicles in North America by 2020. Hinrich Woebcken, speaking during an interview near the company’s factory in Tennessee, said Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga or a sprawling production facility in Mexico are among options being considered for the production of the new electric vehicles.
Read moreThe Initial Quality Study (IQS) examines issues experienced within the first 90 days of new-vehicle ownership. This study measures car quality by analyzing problems reported in the mechanical quality and design of areas such as powertrain, body and interior, and features and accessories. Initial quality is determined by the number of problems experienced per 100 vehicles (PP100), with a lower
Read moreCalifornia emission rules require high-volume automakers to sell either battery-electric or hydrogen fuel-cell cars in proportion to their overall sales. Some manufacturers build “compliance cars” purely to satisfy this mandate, while others buy credits from automakers that sell more zero-emission vehicles than required by the rules. Since Tesla builds only electric cars, it has a large surplus of credits to
Read moreVolkswagen to spend $2 billion to build a competitor to Tesla’s Supercharger network in the U.S. This removes Tesla’s single most important competitive advantage in electric cars. This capital investment also includes a hydrogen fueling network for fuel-cell cars. GM and Nissan are the main near-term beneficiaries of this giant gift from Volkswagen. Toyota, Hyundai, Honda and Mercedes also send
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