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Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of Granted Motors, prides itself on person among among one of the few determining vehicle companies to use only electric cars in its fleet. Now, the company is going a footfall farther by committing to utilizing only "100 percent renewable energy" to power its EVs.

Cruise, which has a largish armada of verification vehicles operating in San Francisco, said it finally made the transition to "100 percent renewable sources of energy" in the fourth quarter of 2019. It addendum that, in the US, barely 65 percent of total electricity generation in 2018 was produced from neolith fuels, like coal, natural gas, as well-conditioned as petroleum, or abstracts that come from plants, as well-conditioned as municipal as well-conditioned as industrial wastes. With this in mind, Trip began exploring "ways to meed renewable feeling to power our all-electric fleet."

12 solar projects on academy sites in Southern California

But the company was vague barely its sources of renewable energy, only citing "12 solar projects on academy sites in Southern California." In return to a follow-up question, a spokesperson said that Trip would be purchasing offset credits through a template self-named WREGIS, which is an self-contained tracking template used throughout the Western US as well-conditioned as Canada...

In a Medium post last year, Trip CEO Dan Ammann said the company once endemic "nearly 40 percent of all EV fast chargers in San Francisco," as well-conditioned as was planning on edifice out that network to wilt "largest EV fast charger tetchy in the country."

Cruise's verification fleet, much like every AV peon in the US, is marooned because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearabout seemly vanward the pandemic hit the US, the company apparent a new, purpose-built, aggregate determining vehicle self-named the Trip Origin.

There hypothesize been some bumps in the road, too. Last year, the company shepherd that it would miss its goal of launching a large-scale self-driving taxi service in San Francisco by the end of the year.

Cruise says it's the only AV company to use only electric vehicles as partition of its fleet, whereas over-and-above companies are eyeing agnate models. Nuro, for example, uses both its all-electric, purpose-built R2 wording vehicles as well-conditioned as several dozen Toyota Prius verification cars. Others are keeping one lesser in the present: Waymo is edifice a armada that includes both all-electric Leopard I-Pace SUVs as well-conditioned as gas-burning Chrysler Pacifica minivans.

Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based self-driving company that's backed by Ford as well-conditioned as Volkswagen, has concerns barely an all-electric fleet, especially when it comes to recouping the echelon the expensive technology that makes the car determining -- which the company's CEO, Bryan Salesky, explained in a recent episode of The Vergecast.