EV Life

AUGUST 28, 2020

To help you save days or weeks of research, here is our guide to using a tool like EV Life to simplify your journey to buy an electric car. If I use EV Life’s Road Trip calculator to drive from San Francisco to Portland in the Hyundai Kona, I can see that I’ll need to make three stops along the way to recharge and spend about $45 on fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

By leveraging the utility industry’s collective buying power, utility operators could contribute to a boost in production volumes with a concomitant reduction in price, the white paper suggested. Plug-in technologies enable significant operational savings (i.e., Typical vehicle configurations and applications in the electric utility fleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

and Portland, Oregon. To the biofuels industry, we say: If you build it, we will buy it. Alaska Airlines will fly 75 commercial passenger flights in the United States powered by a biofuel blend, starting this Wednesday. Two flights will leave Seattle on 9 Nov. for Washington, D.C. —Alaska Air Group Chairman and CEO Bill Ayer.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2017

When it comes to policy efforts aimed at promoting electric cars, the focus is usually on private passenger vehicles. But to cut carbon emissions in a meaningful way, policymakers will have to look at other types of vehicles as well. That includes the thousands of cars and light trucks in the municipal fleets of large cities. DON'T MISS: BYD.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Things have been nuts this week, but I did get a chance to see the Nissan Leaf come to Portland today. I'm still weighing in on giving up on my homebrew Civic-EV and just buying one a Leaf. It arrived at OMSI this morning and the OEVA got a private session with the Leaf this afternoon. I still have a few more months to decide.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke. They buy to make money.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 1, 2022

In fact, when contacted for this profile, Kirsch was test driving a Rivian through the mountains of Oregon and Washington in anticipation of the display of the vehicle at ECI’s events in Portland and Eugene. Now, conversations with people are less about ‘if you will buy’ and more about ‘when will you buy.’”

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2017

Breaking with routine and tradition is never easy, especially when it comes to buying, owning, and operating a vehicle powered by an internal-combustion engine. Around the world, roughly 1 billion vehicle owners stop at fuel stations and keep cars powered by fossil fuels running—and have done for a century now.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Community members in Portland, Oregon; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raleigh, North Carolina soon expanding to the Triangle region have already agreed to work with RMI’s Project Get Ready. Corporate/city/state fleets commit to buy a certain number of plug-ins (RFPs for major purchases or conversions).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

That announcement came about three weeks after a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 body shortly after takeoff, terrifying passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight and forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at the Portland International Airport in Oregon. Almost immediately, the F.A.A. grounded some Max 9s.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

The company really doesn’t expect Spark EV drives to stutter across the country in 80-odd mile increments punctuated by 20-minute recharges, suggested Britta Gross, Director of Advanced Vehicle Commercialization Policy, during a briefing at the Spark EV drive in Portland, Oregon. Propulsion system.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It’s been seeing increasing interest from US companies, so Rocsys recently opened an office in Portland, Oregon, a metro area where a lot of companies are already making the transition to electric transportation. So, for us, it’s important for them to get the buy-in from the OEMs that it works in a stable manner with their vehicles.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 19, 2021

Portland-based Chargeway has a beacon display solution designed just for this purpose. Target the right buyers/Leverage data: Clearly not everyone in America is ready to buy or lease an EV. Running ads in the local newspaper and hoping people will buy your EV is simply not going to cut it. Impressions From a 5-Minute Test Drive.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Portland General Electric. The Office of Federal Sustainability is inviting State, county and municipal government fleets to join forces with Federal agencies to maximize their collective buying power, and aggregate their EV and charging infrastructure purchases. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Electric Island project, a collaboration between Daimler Trucks North America and Portland General Electric, will be a test bed for all kinds of heavy-duty EV charging solutions. Portland General Electric (PGE) is Oregon’s largest electric utility, serving approximately 900,000 customers in 51 cities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

As examples from other countries, China runs trains on its 114 km Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Rail line at a top speed of 217 mph (350 km/h) and is buying 100 350 km/h trains for the upcoming Beijing-Shanghai corridor. Pacific Northwest Corridor (Eugene, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver BC). Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I One was affordability.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Frank didn’t mention anything about the different cities like Portland and San Jose to name a couple who are building the first wave of plug in infrastructure. So radio Frank has no use for them and he doesnt’ want you to consider buying one. With a silent EV there’s no car heard in the audioscape.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December, when Nissan introduces the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car that will have a range of 100 miles on a fully charged battery and be priced for middle-class families. “We

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. Berkshire Hathaway first tried to buy 25% of BYD, but Wang turned down the offer. " One more thing reassured him.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. April 10, 2009 11:51 am Link The electric car is only part of the story in Portland. — Larry 4.

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