California Environment Neighborhood Recharge 
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2009
Infrastructure, recharging and business models. PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. Darbee noted that although California has about 12% of the population, it has about 25% of the demand for plug-in hybrids. —Peter Darbee. One the issues for PG&E is the impact of peak demand on the grid.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 4, 2023
Number one, it’s a lot better, particularly when you’re working indoors or when you’re working in an urban environment. The primary customers right now are the ports—Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles—and the ports around the country are usually in urban environments. Now California just actually moved it up 10 years.
Setec Powerr
APRIL 26, 2022
There are 116,000 public charging ports in the country, according to the Energy Department — mostly lower-speed “Level 2” chargers that are heavily concentrated in California. Most EVs are hampered from driving long distances by the gap between charging stations and the time it takes to recharge their batteries, which have limited range.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2015
The Route extended range electric powertrains incorporate a range-extending genset designed to recharge the high-power battery pack (currently from A123 Systems) and Wrightspeed’s own geared traction drive (GTD) ( earlier post ). On the other hand, a big rig in an urban environment is just horrible at fuel efficiency, Wright said.
Creative Greenius
JULY 19, 2009
Yes, even these unfortunate dimwits can still save what’s left of their retirement funds while helping out the rest of us who weren’t fooled by the right wing, unabashed carbon pimps who ran things in the US government from 2000-2008 and did more damage to our environment than any government in history. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.
Creative Greenius
JUNE 11, 2009
That’s certainly the case here in Torrance, California where I live and work. We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. Most have no idea. The good news is that positive things ARE happening and our efforts are starting to make a difference.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.
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