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Los Angeles launches New Mobility Challenge 2018

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The LA New Mobility Challenge 2018 is a joint initiative of LA CoMotion, the NewCities Foundation and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), all of whom are dedicated to finding cutting-edge and sustainable mobility technologies for Southern California.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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Perfect for a first-mile-last-mile connection, the user either pays for rental time or distance traveled, whichever is less expensive. More than 90 percent of the micro-shuttle’s service territory is in a low-income or disadvantaged Sacramento neighborhood. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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This duo, alongside Timothy Lipman of the University of California, Berkeley , and Alec Brooks of AC Propulsion , laid the foundation for vehicle-to-grid power. Although similar mandates to put more zero-emission vehicles on the road in New York and California failed in the past, the pressure for vehicle electrification is higher now.

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Tesla sponsors sustainability project for church in Oakland

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Tesla sponsored a sustainability project for the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California. On January 15, Allen Temple held a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new energy storage project at its Family Life Center in Oakland, California. The project required over 1,650 in person-hours to be completed.

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Recap: Exhibiting at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo and Honoring Our Customers

EV Connect

EV Connect’s Booth #1927 at the ACT Expo. EV Connect, Inc. was proud to be a part of a record setting Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, California. Demos of EV Connect’s Fleet Solution to Attendees. EV Connect meetings extended outward from our booth into the aisle of the show floor.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. Connected to the novelty factor is that. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. Top 5 Reasons People Love Pong. Sociability. The Challenge.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

Charged EVs

Right now I’m working on a committee where we’re defining the standard for an ePTO (electric power take-off) connection. You’re operating close in neighborhoods, so the quiet is a huge advantage, and you have room to have a pretty good-sized electric actuator on a garbage truck because it’s a bigger vehicle. Garbage trucks.