Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board unanimously approved an application for more than $4.5 billion in federal stimulus funding for engineering, design and construction on the state’s high-speed train system (earlier post) —generating an investment of $9.1 billion when state matching funds are added.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. California-based Coulomb Technologies makes the program’s ChargePoint chargers, which were shipped to 130 customers in 2009. A $2,000 value!).

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Coulomb Technologies unveiled San Francisco's first ChargePoint America charge stations yesterday in a Priority Parking lot along the Embarcadero. The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. Ecotality's EV Project got an exclusive.)

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. When the president of the California Public Utilities Commission, Michael R. He said a single car could consume three times as much electricity as a typical San Francisco home.

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