Posts by: FleetCarma Staff
May 24, 2012
California: The New Frontier for Electric Vehicles
The metropolitan area of Los Angeles and the state of California as a whole are continually ranked as having the worst air quality in the United States. Air quality problems arise from many different sources, but in the Los Angeles area the major contributor is vehicle exhaust. To rectify this problem the state of California has created many laws, regulations, and programs to[…]
April 17, 2012
FleetCarma collaborates with universities to design a prototype EV for General Motors Competition
FleetCarma is very happy to be working in collaboration with a group of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University as they design and build a prototype vehicle in partnership with General Motors. These students are participating in a three-year collegiate competition called EcoCAR2, which challenges them to re-engineer a donated 2013 Chevrolet Malibu into a plug-in electric[…]
March 27, 2012
Azure joins Think in bankruptcy protection. Is the Electric Vehicle revival doomed? Insight from an insider.
Azure Dynamics filed for bankruptcy protection last night. The news stung. I have friends that work there. Even if anyone following the stock could see that cash was needed, and knowing this will let them emerge stronger than ever, it stings when the headline is read. As the Italian Stallion says “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows”. And this is all too true[…]
March 7, 2012
Integrating EVs into the smart grid of the future
The following editorial by Ted Kristsonis at MediaPlanet, featured an interview with Matthew Stevens, CEO and Co-founder of FleetCarma’s parent company CrossChasm Technologies, and appeared in the Engineering & Infrastructure Special Report in the National Post on March 2nd, 2012. Integrating EVs into the smart grid of the future Electric vehicles are hailed as a game changer for transportation and the environment. However, utilizing the car[…]
March 2, 2012
March 2012 Release – FleetCarma Total Cost of Ownership & Electric Vehicle Monitoring
Some months you renovate the kitchen. Other months you install new curtains. This month we grabbed our IKEA cards and got us some new curtains, a bunch of them. No massive overhauls, but a lot of requested touches that we think you’ll like: Français. This one’s big. The entire backend is now available in French. Big thanks to Simon for all his work on[…]
January 23, 2012
FleetCarma Sponsors EcoCAR2 Competition
FleetCarma joins the likes of General Motors, the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, and other organizations in sponsoring the next installment in Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTCs) called: EcoCAR2 – Plugging into the Future. The competitions have been managed by the Argonne National Laboratory for 23 years and the goal of this three-year competition is to challenge university and college students to[…]
November 7, 2011
British Columbia Announces Clean Vehicle Incentive Program
The Province of British Columbia (B.C.) announced a new clean vehicle incentive program this past weekend. The two year program hopes to grow the sales of clean tech vehicles in the province with point of purchase incentives and supplementary incentive offerings to help build the required charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs). The B.C. point of purchase rebate begins on December 1st of this[…]
October 19, 2011
FleetCarma Wins Deloitte Technology Green 15 Award
WATERLOO, ON, October 19, 2011 — FleetCarmaTM is a winner of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Green 15TM Award, an award created in 2007 to showcase 15 Canadian companies that are leading the way to create major breakthroughs in the field of green technology. “The Deloitte Technology Green 15 Award recognizes those Canadian companies that offer solutions to global environmental challenges by creating intellectual property and[…]
August 29, 2011
Innovative New Product to Provide Roadside Charging Solution for Electric Vehicles
RALEIGH, NC–(Marketwire – Jul 18, 2011) – AAA, North America’s largest motoring and leading safety advocacy organization, will soon roll out the first of many roadside assistance vehicles capable of mobile electric vehicle charging. AAA’s solution to electric vehicle owners’ range anxiety is powered by Green Charge Networks — a leader in smart grid and green technology. Unveiled at the Plug In 2011 convention[…]
July 27, 2011
Is Range Anxiety Here to Stay? Three Approaches to Solving the Problem.
Imagine pushing the start button on your new electric vehicle (EV) up for the first time. Now imagine cruising across town, over hills and through busy city streets. As your trip nears an end you look to the battery’s state-of-charge (SOC) gauge to see how many miles are left to get you home – ah there’s enough. You accelerate up a hill on your[…]
