{"id":2131,"date":"2021-02-04T22:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2021-02-04T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:00:14","slug":"new-ev-partnership-houston-uber-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-ev-partnership-houston-uber-bp\/","title":{"rendered":"New EV Partnership. Houston + Uber + BP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s the deal?  This week Houston&#8217;s mayor \u00a0announced the partnership to forward the deployment of BP\u2019s rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging hubs &amp; help the city\u2019s Uber drivers make the transition to EVs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why should we care? EV is a replete with partnerships and opportunities. So many moving parts, the infrastructure, the electric distribution, the vehicles, the drivers, the transportation stakeholders, the environmental aspect. Let&#8217;s not forget the Texas Medical Center and the healthcare stakeholders who say that if Houston were to electrify its transportation system by 2050, it would save 148 lives; prevent 3,333 asthma attacks; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/clean-air\/electric-vehicle-report\">spare $1.7 billion annually<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can this impact me? There&#8217;s no going backwards as more companies announce moves to EV only and announce their own carbon neutral policies and goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/houston-uber-bp-electric-vehicle-charging-planning-partnership\/594324\/\">Smart Cities Dive | Houston, Uber and BP partner to aid EV transition for drivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the deal? This week Houston&#8217;s mayor \u00a0announced the partnership to forward the deployment of BP\u2019s rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging hubs &amp; help the city\u2019s Uber drivers make the transition to EVs.\u00a0 Why should we care? EV is a replete with partnerships and opportunities. So many moving parts, the infrastructure, the electric distribution, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}