Indianapolis Will Test Ambitious Electric Car Sharing System
"On Wednesday, the nation’s most ambitious electric car sharing program launches in a city that’ll probably surprise you," according to an article by Brad Tuttle.
Drum roll please? The city is Indianapolis, and the program BlueIndy, "is being run by a French company called the Bolloré Group, which says it is investing $41 million in the Indianapolis operation," reports Tuttle.
"The company has said BlueIndy will have 25 charging stations and 50 vehicles around the city at launch, and the plan is for 200 stations and 500 electric cars in the near future. The cars themselves are small white hatchbacks made by Bolloré, featuring the BlueIndy logo on the sides."
Tuttle also notes that the electric car sharing system will come as a welcome relief in a city with one of the worst transit systems in the country, according to an evaluation in FiveThirtyEight from July 2014.
Topics
- Capitalism at Work on an Interstate Highway
- TIGER Grants Are Back, But They're Called BUILD Grants Now
- Domino's Pizza Now Fixing Potholes Around the County
- Learning from Europe
- What If Zoning Codes Were Dynamic?
- Who Should Pay for Transportation Infrastructure and Services?
- 'World's Smartest Intersection' Debuts in Detroit
- Why Scooters Succeed Where Segways Failed
- Study: There's a Lot of Vacant Land in Texas Cities
- New Degree at MIT Combines Planning and Computer Science
- The Massive Significance of Ford's Move into Detroit's Abandoned Michigan Central Depot
- The Chesapeake Bay Comeback
- Book Review: The Divided City, by Alan Mallach
- Ambitious Greenway Project Takes Shape in St. Louis
- NYC Mobility Report: Transit Ridership Drops While Population Grows
- Chicago's New Train to O'Hare Won't Be a Train—It's Elon Musk's 'Loop'
- A California City Approves its First-Ever Apartment Building
- Plans for Huge Expansion of Rail Service in Chilean Capital
- Home Builders Experiencing High Costs and Slow Starts
- New Yorkers Have More Complaints About Rats
