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NREL study focuses on growing use and impacts of ride-hailing services at airports

Green Car Congress

In a new study, NREL researchers focused on the key observability aspects of new modes and the rate of shifts in mobility patterns across airports in the regions of San Francisco, Portland, Denver, and Kansas City—all US DOT Smart City Challenge finalists. —Alejandro Henao, NREL postdoc.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Parking EVs In Driveways and on the Street: Implications for EV Charging

EV Adoption

In essence, unlike single-family households with garages, these car owners don’t control their own charging destiny. But I recently came across an article and data that suggests that perhaps more than one-third of US households with garages don’t actually park their cars in them. The study by Jamey M. Volker and Calvin G.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

I could drive a Class 8 truck over a light-duty charger, and it will activate one pad of that truck and still charge. John Holland: We fasten the receiver plate underneath the car. We connect high-power communication lines into the DC charging system of the car. Charged : What’s involved with installing the vehicle-side system?