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Articles tagged “electric cars”

Ground Transport

New Hertz CEO Will Be Ex-Goldman Sachs Finance Chief Stephen Scherr

Hertz's next CEO has his work cut out for him in remaking the company. The car rental firm's transformation plan sounds good on paper, but it will be up to Stephen Scherr to turn vision into reality.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

New Hertz CEO Will Be Ex-Goldman Sachs Finance Chief Stephen Scherr

Ground Transport

Hertz Orders 100,000 Tesla Cars in Effort to Create Electric Fleet

Although electric cars could play an enormous role in the fight against climate change, an important question is how easy will it be for consumers to charge those vehicles? The U.S. needs to improve its charging network infrastructure to encourage more people to buy and drive electric cars.

Subrat Patnaik and Sanjana Shivdas, Reuters | 3 years ago

Hertz Orders 100,000 Tesla Cars in Effort to Create Electric Fleet

Airlines

3 Big Upsides for Travel From President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

The years of infrastructure week memes are finally over with President Biden's $2 trillion proposal to upgrade and green America's infrastructure. But with battle lines already forming, can he get the package over the line in Congress?

Edward Russell, Skift | 3 years ago

3 Big Upsides for Travel From President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

Hotels

No Escaping Climate Change for the Travel Industry Even When Covid-19 Becomes a Distant Memory

Masks, social distancing, and vaccines can't stop climate change. It isn't a competition to choose the most dire threat, climate change or Covid-19, because they are interrelated. But taking a long-term view, climate change will be an existential threat to the travel industry, and the world, even as coronavirus fades.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

No Escaping Climate Change for the Travel Industry Even When Covid-19 Becomes a Distant Memory

Ground Transport

Self-Driving Cars, Electric Vehicles and the Future of Hitting the Road

The sharing economy hardly puts a dent in the fact that most American road trips occur with owned cars. But look out for brands adapting to electric vehicles before driverless cars change things completely.

Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift | 6 years ago

Self-Driving Cars, Electric Vehicles and the Future of Hitting the Road

Business Travel

Luxury Car Sales Soar as Brands Adapt to Electric, Connected Demands

Mirroring the larger luxury sector, car manufacturers are finding that a legacy brand is not enough to attract the interest of newly affluent customers. They must adapt to demands while maintaining their standard brand quality to thrive into the future.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 7 years ago

Ground Transport

Best Western To Use Electric Shuttle Vans For Green Energy and Financial Savings

You have to spend a little to make a little. These electric shuttles will be more expensive for Best Western at the outset, but the cost savings over time will make up for that initial, pricey expense.

Skift | 10 years ago

Tourism

Road from Vermont to Quebec dotted with electric car charging stations

The hope is that small-scale partnerships like Burlington and Montreal’s charging stations are only the beginning to larger projects that make eco-friendly transport as easy and inexpensive as today’s main transit options.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Road from Vermont to Quebec dotted with electric car charging stations

Ground Transport

Early adopters of electric cars are rich, urban, educated men

The differences in transit habits of those with and without electric cars has more to do with what drives people to purchase such a car and less to do with EV completely changing drivers’ commutes.

Skift | 11 years ago

Early adopters of electric cars are rich, urban, educated men

Airlines

Frequent flyers across California are about to regret buying that electric car

LAX started offering the incentive over a decade ago, which no longer makes sense for the airport as it risks losing up to $120,000 a day from free parking.

Skift | 11 years ago

Frequent flyers across California are about to regret buying that electric car