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San Francisco vs. Portland in an Electric Car Race of a different sort [w/VIDEO]

While the Auto X Prize is working on making an actual clean vehicle race take place in the U.S. sometime soon, Gas 2.0 is putting together a "race" between U.S. cities to see which of them can get an electric vehicle charging infrastructure ready first. Currently, Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California are involved in the "Electric Vehicle War," which Gas 2.0 hopes will "spur a broader discussion on electric vehicle infrastructure that involves citizens, industry leaders, and major politicians." Some examples of Portland's EV ... Read more →

Seattle mayor wants his city to be on bleeding edge of EVs Sam Abuelsamid

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is a fan of electric vehicles and wants his constituents to feel the same way. In recent months, the Pacific Northwest city has signed a deal with Nissan to be one of the ...

World Electric Vehicle Association recognizes Seattle for sustainability efforts Sam Abuelsamid

The city of Seattle has made a lot of progress toward encouraging sustainable transportation in the Pacific Northwest. In recognition of these efforts, the World Electric Vehicle Association will be ...

Nissan and Seattle partner up for electric cars Sebastian Blanco

- You know the drill: Renault-Nissan makes an announcement about a new partnership to build an electric vehicle charging infrastructure and says it will begin testing their EVs in that location. ...

Disappointing results - just 51 mpg - for converted PHEV Priuses in Seattle Sam Abuelsamid

Nearly a year ago the city of Seattle started a field test of 14 Toyota Priuses converted to plug-in hybrid capability. At the time, the expectation was that the cars would top 100 mpg overall and 150 ...

Seattle gets a bit zippier thanks to ZipCar 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

The latest city to jump on the carsharing band wagon is Seattle. The city has signed up with ZipCar to provide on-demand short term car rentals in the hopes that more of the city's 10,500 employees (Seattle has 10,500 employees?) will access the cars when needed for city business. Sixty ZipCars will ...

Imperium faces new setback with loss of major contract 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's been a tough year or so for Imperium Renewable. Imperium, the force behind one of America's largest biodiesel plants, is a Seattle-area company that was hit with a lawsuit from a former employee this spring. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer details the many other problems facing Imperium: a ...

In Seattle, a drive to get folks to ditch driving 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo Credit: Chethan Shankar | Creative Commons 2.0 The Seattle city government is looking for residents to part ways with their cars via the One Less Car Challenge. The idea's pretty straightforward: interested parties must register (spots are limited) and agree to give up their car for either ...

Get schooled on building your own electric vehicle 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Are looking for a project to keep you busy this summer? Have you always wanted to have your own electric car to go along with your solar panels? You don't want to wait for the Volt and the Tesla is too pricey? Perhaps you can build one yourself. What's that? You don't know anything about converting ...

Zipcar/Flexcar merger: the bad news from Seattle 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Erica Barnett, someone with car-sharing experience, writes in The Stranger that the Zipcar takeover merger with Flexcar isn't going quite as smoothly as she'd like. A big Flexcar fan, Barnett says that the more corporate feel of Zipcar has left car sharers in Seattle (Flexcar's home town) paying ...

Mayor of Seattle wants taxis to be hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Seattle is a city that seems to have it all. A great nightlife, lots of places to get coffee, amazing weather that Space Needle thing. What it doesn't have is a whole lot of hybrids in its taxi fleet. Sure, it has a few schlepping folks to and from Sea-Tac but that's about it. Mayor Greg Nickels ...

Friday Humor: When was the last time you were urged to "ride the SLUT" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Considering the fact that we just highlighted a report which brought to light just how long each of us tends to sit in traffic each day, using an alternative form of transportation - such as a bus or trolley - is an extremely attractive option. Because of this fact, many urban locations are putting ...

Biodiesel startup Planetary Fuels set for lift off 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Planetary Fuels, a Seattle, Washington-based biodiesel startup, has filed to set up their first production facility outside of Seattle which includes the installation of tankage with a combined capacity of 442,000 gallons. The plant should produce around 6 million gallons of biodiesel per annum ...


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