SF Politics US Senate Votes to Block California’s Electric Car Mandate, State Certain to Sue The GOP-controlled US Senate just voted Thursday to revoke California’s mandate to switch to only electric cars by the year 2035, in an obvious middle finger to California from politicians who claim to support “states’ rights.”
SF News Day Around The Bay: Electric Jeep Catches Fire While Charging At Google Campus, Spreads To Other Cars A Boston man was arrested in the Bay Area for smuggling Irish nationals into the US; a boat containing 30 humanitarians, including Greta Thunberg, was reportedly attacked by Israeli drones; and four vehicles were destroyed on Google's campus.
Business & Tech SF’s First On-Street, Curbside Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Are Coming to Duboce Triangle and Dogpatch People who don’t have garages can have a hell of a time finding a place to charge their electric vehicle, but hundreds of new SF curbside charging stations are in the works, and the first few will be in Dogpatch and Duboce Triangle.
Business & Tech San Mateo-Based Startup Wins FAA Approval To Test Their Futuristic, $300,000 Flying Car There are still many regulatory hurdles to clear, but San Mateo’s Alef Aeronautics has won a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform limited testing on their “Model A” flying car.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFMTA Gets $30M Grant From Feds for EV Stuff Those "safe and sane" fireworks are out there for purchase again; the former CELLspace site will become the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Arts Healing Center next year; and the SFMTA just got a $30M federal grant for electric buses and charging stations.
SF News Muni’s New Battery Electric Buses Are Being Spotted in the Wild Look ma, no wires! Yet another new fleet of Muni buses has arrived, so keep your eyes peeled, because you may notice the new battery electric buses as they continue in their evaluation and testing phase.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Campaign Drops Nearly $2 Million To Defeat Electric Car Measure Prop 30 Supposedly climate-friendly Governor Newsom’s campaign just gave nearly $1.9 million to defeat Prop. 30, the millionaire tax that would help fund California’s conversion to electric cars only.
SF Politics We’ve Got Polling on State Ballot Props: Both Gambling Measures In the Toilet, Wealth Tax Looks Like a Squeaker A combined $400 million-plus in spending has bought no love for the two competing sports gambling measures on California’s November ballot, whereas a new millionaire’s tax stands just 1% shy of the majority threshold it needs.
SF News A Whole Bunch of Electric Vehicle Chargers Could be Coming to SF Gas Stations and Auto Shops The SF Planning Commission moved forward in approving an armada of electric vehicle charging stations — a “public charging network” which could be coming to an auto body shop or gas station near you.
Business & Tech Due to Those Batteries, Tesla Car Fires Require Outlandish Volumes of Water to Extinguish All types of electric vehicles pose problems for firefighters when they crash and their lithium ion batteries go ablaze, but Teslas have routinely required more than 20,000 gallons of water. That does not bode well for wildfire season!\
SF News Amazon To Start Testing Fleet of Electric Delivery Vans in San Francisco This week, Amazon announced the company will start testing its current fleet of cartoonish-looking EVs in San Francisco, adding to the growing number of clean-energy delivery cars and public transport vehicles driving on our streets.
SF Politics California to Ban Sale of Gas-Only Cars By 2035... If We All Make It That Long On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new initiative to end the sale of gas-powered automobiles in the state by 2035 — a 15-year timeline that will make this state of 40 million people the first in the nation to phase out gas-only vehicles completely.
SF News The 'Affordable' Tesla Model 3 To Start Rolling Off The Lines Friday Just as the Ford Model T completely revolutionized American travel back in the early 1900s, the new, yet-unreleased Tesla Model 3 is also anticipated to revolutionize modern society (at least among people who
SF News Ed Lee Welcomes BMW Electric-Car Sharing Service Now this is our kinda car-sharing service! Mayor Ed Lee welcomed little-known nonprofit grassroots effort BMW into San Francisco by way of electric-car sharing on Monday. It was all a part of the
SF News Planning for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in S.F. Is Very Complicated Because two-thirds of S.F.'s population live in multi-unit housing and 80% of us are renters, planning for public charging stations for electric vehicles is rather complicated. As Bay City News reports,
SF News Let Them Eat Free Electric Car Power, Says Mayor Ed Lee In a continuing effort to reduce the city's carbon emissions -- while boosting the smugness of Prius owners, of course -- Mayor Ed Lee's office will announce the availability of free power for
