Charging Ahead? The City Needs Plugs for E-Bikes, Not Cars, Advocates and...
A City Council hearing on electric vehicle charging focused more on the needs of delivery workers and other electric bike users than car drivers, even as the Adams administration plots the electric...
View ArticleManhattan Elected Officials Urge Congestion Pricing Discount For Electric Cars
Can you discount them? They’re electric! A group of Manhattan elected officials has asked for a discount for electric vehicles when congestion pricing comes to Manhattan in 2024, but advocates suggest...
View ArticleOpinion: Electric Vehicles Are Only Part of the Climate Solution
Editor’s note: The opinions expressed by our op-ed writers do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Streetsblog editorial board. Electric vehicles are frequently touted as a silver bullet to...
View ArticleColorado’s Small Vehicle Weight Fee Could At Least Protect Vulnerable Road Users
A proposed Colorado law would require the drivers of vehicles that are more likely to kill vulnerable road users to help pay for infrastructure projects to stop pedestrian and cyclist crashes before...
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Thursday’s Headlines: Fleet Week Edition
This week’s headlines are sponsored by City & State’s upcoming transportation innovation symposium on Oct. 25. Click the icon for info. The only real “news” from Wednesday was the mayor’s...
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KOMANOFF: Adams’s ‘Green Rides’ Initiative is Bad Transportation AND Climate...
Mayor Adams has made a bad decision to waive the de Blasio-era cap on the number of ride-hail vehicles allowed in New York City, so long as the extra cars are electric. Let’s get it straight once and...
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Limitless E-Ubers and E-Lyfts Will Hurt Traffic, Air, People: Suit
Mayor Adams’s plan to add an unlimited number of new electric Ubers and Lyfts to New York City streets will compound congestion, pollution and traffic violence — which the Taxi and Limousine...
View ArticleJudge Blocks City From Its Plan to Issue Unlimited EV Uber/Lyft Licenses
That was fast. Mere days after the alliance representing cab drivers sued the city over its plan for an unlimited number of new licenses for electric app-based cabs, a judge has blocked implementation...
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Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is the Perfect Killing Machine
After years of delays, multiple price hikes, and exactly one infamous steel ball mishap, Tesla finally handed over the keys to the very first Cybertruck on Thursday. For a car that barely exists yet —...
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Should We Stop Subsidizing EVs For All and Focus on ‘Super-Drivers’?
America should ditch its “one-size-fits-all” approach to encouraging EV adoption and focus on getting the highest-mileage drivers to go electric, while focusing on mode shift strategies for the rest of...
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POWER PLAY: City Moves to Put Thousands More E-Car Chargers on the Sidewalk
The city is gearing up to add more curbside electric car chargers across the five boroughs over a decade, raising concerns among advocates that the power infrastructure will cede too much public space...
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