New and “substantially remodeled” apartment buildings in unincorporated King County will be required to have 10% of their parking spaces capable of charging electric vehicles and 25% of spaces must… Read More
Seattle City Light announced a new service last month in which the utility plans to install electric vehicle chargers at select curbside locations throughout the city. The goal is to… Read More
If $6-a-gallon gas has got you down, maybe you’re considering joining the rush of drivers making the switch to electric vehicles. A new showroom opening Saturday in Seattle’s University Village… Read More
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other AGs from around the country have filed a lawsuit against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly violating… Read More
If you were counting on generous rebates from Washington state to help cover the cost of an electric vehicle purchase, you’re probably out of luck — at least for the… Read More
President Biden this week announced a ban on the import of Russian oil and gas because of the war in Ukraine. The decision is intended to put heightened economic pressure… Read More
Arlington, Wash.-based Eviation says Gregory Davis is assuming the role of interim CEO as part of a planned succession process that reflects the company’s transition to the production phase of… Read More
The focus of a lot of the Super Bowl LVI ads released ahead of Sunday’s games seems to be the stars who show up in the commercials. In many cases,… Read More
Washington state ranks fourth nationally in electric vehicle ownership, running close behind much more populous states like Texas, Florida and California. And yet Scott Case, CEO of Recurrent, is… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday joined with state lawmakers to announce his proposed climate initiatives, which total $626 million worth of programs to cut carbon from buildings, transportation and… Read More
The massive, Washington state-owned vehicle pool will begin the switch to electric power with the goal of having the whole fleet fully electric by 2040, under an executive order signed… Read More
As it waits on its order of tens of thousands of delivery vans, Amazon revealed Friday that it has a 20% stake in Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that it’s… Read More
Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that has attracted major backing from Amazon, is trying to attract more engineers in the Seattle region based on job openings posted on the company’s… Read More
Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that has attracted huge funding from Amazon and others, announced Friday that it plans to go public, and one report values the company at roughly… Read More
Amazon is pouring more money into Rivian, as the electric vehicle maker announced Friday that the tech giant was among lead investors in a $2.5 billion financing round. Amazon made… Read More
New funding: Electric Era, a Seattle startup that is designing and building battery systems for electric vehicle charging stations, has raised a $3 million seed round led by REMUS Capital.… Read More
Rivian, the California-based electric vehicle startup that some call the “Tesla of Trucks,” is setting up a showroom in Seattle and a service center in nearby Bellevue for this year’s… Read More
New funding: Recurrent, a platform for helping people make informed choices when buying used electric vehicles, was awarded a $256,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The money is… Read More
A bill working its way through the Washington state House would allow makers of electric vehicles (EVs) to sell direct to the public without involving an auto dealer. The bill… Read More
Bill Gates isn’t just investing in QuantumScape’s potentially revolutionary lithium-metal battery technology — he’s giving the venture advice as well. “I didn’t honestly think he knew anything about chemistry, and… Read More
Recurrent, the Seattle-based startup that provides independent reports on the condition of used electric car batteries, has raised $3.5 million to power its business. The seed round was led by… Read More
While Elon Musk plans to keep on (electric) truckin’, don’t expect him to pick up a hitchhiking Bill Gates. The latest beef between the billionaires bubbled up on Twitter over… Read More
Used electric vehicle buyers can kick the tires and look under the hood of potential purchase, but what they really need is to peer into the black box that is… Read More
With fewer people on the move during the pandemic, Bill Gates is taking the time to think about better ways to get around when we can again. Specifically, the Microsoft… Read More
If you’ve got the dough to buy an electric vehicle, Washington state and the rest of the Western U.S. should have the juice to keep it charged — at least… Read More
Seattle was once a pioneer for car-sharing, home to car2go, BMW ReachNow, and LimePods. But each of those companies shut down their free-floating car-sharing services in the city, leaving it… Read More
Amazon has made another investment in Rivian, the electric vehicle maker which announced Monday that it had raised $1.3 billion in a new funding round. Amazon previously led a $700… Read More
“Having a car is a thing of the past,” according to Pierre Gourdain, managing director of FlixBus USA, as the fast-growing, tech friendly bus service provider has arrived in the… Read More
Electric vehicles are poised to reach a tipping point in 2019 as battery prices dip to $150/kWh and Seattle is poised to usher in a surge of electric transportation across… Read More
Seattle is transitioning its fleet of waste management vehicles away from fossil fuels, starting with the nation’s first full-sized, 100 percent electric garbage trucks. The vehicles come from Recology, a… Read More