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The utility: PG&E
Total number of charging stations planned for the network of charging stations? 7500
Where does PG&E looking to place the EV chargers?
What’s the Q1 phase for the EV charging roll out plan? PG&E will place EV charging stations in partnerships with business customers
Cost of the program? $130 million
Length of the roll out to achieve 7500 EV charging stations: 3 years and end in 2020
Where: El Dorado County, CA (Sacramento area)
The Partnership: With Lyft & Uber
The partnership benefits:
The chairman of the board of Texas Central Partners lists 5 reasons Texans should be excited about high speed rail:
KWTX | Temple: McLane says high speed rail is something to get excited about
The business trend: Turo, a car sharing platform that describes itself as Airbnb for cars
The policy issues: liability and insurance
The platform offers insurance coverage, how are policy affected: Coverage levels and addressing the platform in statute
Houston Business Journal included the station land deal between Texas Central and the City of Houston on its list of deals of the year for 2017.
Why did it make the list? Because the City of Houston-Texas Central deal was the first of its kind for the high speed rail project.
Houston Business Journal | HBJ’s 2017 Deals of the Year: Economic Development
The business: Startup Circulation
Business model: offering non-emergency transportation to medical appointments utilizing existing ride share companies
Regulatory/Legislative: Transportation services for state managed health care plans / insurance regulation
What other ride share/health care partnerships are there: Lyft partners with CareMore Health Systems
Is there data to support it? Data shows it reduces wait times by 30% and transportation costs by 1/3
The City: San Francisco
The ordinances: Address “cargobots” on city sidewalks and place these 5 limitations:
States that have passed statewide robot delivery laws: Idaho & Virginia
The legislation: No constant human monitoring required. Idaho has a weight limit of 80lbs & Virginia has a limit of 50lbs.
The business behind the legislation in Idaho & Virginia : Starship Technologies, a delivery-robot company based in Estonia that was founded by Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, two of the co-founders of Skype
Re-Code | A robot-delivery startup helped write state laws that are locking out competition
Background: The Missouri Department of Revenue granted Tesla the ability to sell directly without using the dealership process. As a result, the Missouri Automobile Association brought a lawsuit in 2015.
The Appellate Court Ruling:
Taxi Cab companies in Philadelphia are joining forces to: