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BYD Motors has been
edging its way into the North American auto market for some time, but it’s now firmly planted itself here by opening its new headquarters in Los Angeles. That bit of news also just so happens to coincide with the announcement of a new partnership with Hertz Car Rental, who will be using BYD’s all-electric, long-range eBUS to shuttle passengers at Los Angeles International Airport —
BYD’s cars will also eventually find their way into Hertz’s LA rental fleet. The press release is after the break.
Continue reading BYD opens North American HQ in LA, electric bus headed for LAX
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Garmin is best known for its in-car navigation systems, but today delved deeper into the realm of personal navigation with a brand new iPhone app for the eternally lost. For a dollar, you’ll get standard walking, driving and public transportation directions, but go premium for $2.99 a month or $29.99 for the year, and you’ll cop more add-ons designed to transform your iPhone into a full-fledged PND. Like the standard iPhone mapping system or HopStop, the subscription-based version of this app lets you integrate public transportation into your journey — but the added feature here is the ability to view public transit schedules like you can in the Google Maps app for Android. It also has spoken turn-by-turn directions, Garmin’s traffic routing and Google search, making it a handy alternative to a clunky navigation system. Check out the full PR after the break.
Continue reading Garmin launches StreetPilot onDemand iPhone app, offers transit schedules
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If we could find a browser Mapnificient worked in without problems we’d probably call it the greatest thing to happen to Google Maps since turn-by-turn navigation. Even with it’s painfully slow performance (Firefox) and tendency to crash (Chrome), we’re still in love. Basically, it lets you filter and search maps based on travel time using public transportation. Its great for finding apartments with the shortest commute or a fair meeting place that you and a friend can reach at the same time. It’s pretty impressive and, if its creator Stefan Wehrmeyer ever whips up a mobile app, it could become an indispensable part of our smartphone arsenal. For a much better and more thorough explanation by the developer himself, check out the video after the break.
Continue reading Mapnificent visualizes public transportation travel time, is more exciting than it sounds (video)
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Brooklynites on their way to the latest Reggie Watts show have long had
real-time bus-tracking information, but public-transit aficionados in six other cities now have one less reason for BK envy. With the latest version of
Google Maps, even the least cool citizens of Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin can see not just when their bus or train is scheduled to arrive, but when it actually will. Selecting a stop on the map displays “live departure times” and service alerts, thanks to Google’s data-sharing partnerships with city transit operators. That won’t always guarantee fewer delays or less waiting, but will help riders budget their time, and maybe find those precious seconds necessary to post more Tumblr pictures of “ironic” Hitler-kittens.
Live transit updates in Google Maps help you plan your romantic bus-catching sprint originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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While we were jealously hung up on
South Korea’s working electric bus system, Christmas apparently came early for a couple of lucky US
fuel cell bus research projects — in the form of $16.6 million in Federal Transit Administration grants. Pasadena based Calstart snagged almost $10.2 million and will funnel 70 percent of the funds to developing the first phase of a low-cost, longer lasting fuel cell power system. Calstart will then spend its remaining $2.9 million in partnership with the Chicago Regional Transit Authority to develop and test the viability of fuel cell bus fleets in cold climates. The Center for Transportation and the Environment in Atlanta was the other project to hit the federal money gravy train. It received a hefty $6.4 million to spread across six different projects that dabble in everything from developing fast-charging 35-foot fuel cell buses, to similar lithium ion versions, to improving existing hybrid bus platforms. Federal pork for
fuel cell DSLR development regrettably missed the cut. For the full scoop hit up the press release after the break.
Continue reading FTA awards $16.6 million in grants for fuel cell bus research
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