Looking for a roundup of the latest and most important news from the automotive world? You’ve found it in the Daily Drive-Thru. Check it out every weekday to see what you missed and what you need to know.  Consider the Daily Drive-Thru your express drive through the world of automotive news.  FOLLOW DAILY NEWS AUTOS ON FACEBOOK. 'LIKE' US HERE.  Lyft and General Motors will expand their collaborative Express Drive short-term vehicle access program westward and add electric-powered cars to the available lineup. The Express Drive program, which debuted in Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C. and Baltimore in March, hooks up willing drivers without qualifying cars with rentals from GM.  Originally, drivers had the choice between Chevrolet’s Malibu, Trax, Equinox or Impala, the GMC Terrain or the Buick Regal. Starting this fall, participants will be able to get the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt or the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, if they so desire. In addition to adding the battery-powered vehicles, the companies also will expand the program to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver.  Participants pay between $82 and $99 a week for the rental depending on the model (that price includes insurance and maintenance) and between 17 and 20 cents per mile. If a driver does more than 40 paid trips in a week, the per-mile cost is dropped and if they do 65 or more paid trips a week, the car is free.  German prosecutors will not use kid gloves to handle Volkswagen’s diesel emissions case. They’ve vowed not to consider the fines and penalties already incurred by the home-grown manufacture elsewhere, but don’t expect Volkswagen’s German penalties to come close to those it faces in the U.S. Industry observers expect Volkswagen will face several hundred million euros (or, likely, a billion or fewer U.S. dollars) in German fines, a mere fraction of the more than $15 billion it owes on this side of the Atlantic.  German prosecutors will fine Volkswagen based on the “economic advantage” it gained by using the illegal software, i.e. how much it made by using the cheap software instead of paying for a proper, more expensive exhaust filtration system. Criminal charges could still be brought against former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn and brand chief Herbert Diess for market manipulation.  Hyundai will begin selling its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Tuscon SUV in northern California, Washington, D.C., Michigan and Colorado this month. Hyundai has exclusively been selling its hydrogen-powered vehicle in southern California since 2013 by working with the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to capitalize on the region’s existing hydrogen infrastructure.  This expansion is phase two of Hyundai’s effort to eventually sell the fuel cell Tucson nationwide. The beginning of this second phase corresponds with the opening of fuel cell charging station developed by the DOE in Washington, D.C.  Scoot Networks, an electric-scooter sharing company based in San Francisco, is something like a cross between the Citi Bike program and Daimler’s Car2Go service, but 100 percent electrified. It allows drivers to rent all-electric scooters by the month, trip or two-day period (for the tourists), and it’s just announced an upcoming expansion. It also offers four-wheel, all-electric mini cars that have a top speed of 25 mph and a 40-mile range.  The company, which has been around since 2012, bills itself as an environmentally-friendly way to get around, curb congestion and alleviate the stresses of finding city parking. Scoot recently passed the million-mile mark and earned a enough funding to expand its fleet by a few hundred scooters—specifically GenZe 2.0 flat-floor scooters from Indian automaker Mahindra. The service is expected to hit other markets next year.  Did you find this article helpful? If so, please share it using the "Join the Conversation" buttons below, and thank you for visiting Daily News Autos.
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