Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

Carsharing service car2go has opened its tenth North American location; the new Chicago fleet comprises 400 vehicles, including smart fortwo and Mercedes-Benz CLA and GLA vehicles. car2go CEO Olivier Reppert steps out of a brand new car2go Mercedes-Benz car in Chicago. million customers, an increase of 25% year-over-year.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

A bunch of Tesla vehicles were unable to charge at Supercharger stations across Chicago amid an extreme cold wave. As for electric vehicles, it does negatively affect their range and charging speed. As for electric vehicles, it does negatively affect their range and charging speed. Cars have problems in extreme cold.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2024

Charging company Voltpost is preparing to roll out its lamppost EV chargers in major U.S. metro areas like New York, Chicago, and Detroit. The Level 2 chargers are added to existing lampposts, with charging sessions and payment managed.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

GM brings two heavyweight contenders to Chicago's EV showdown.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2020

And Chicago is requiring more EV charge points. Chicago has made a move that requires more charge points to be installed in large-scale residential and commercial development. What started with the Prius has now hit 15 million. Hyundai hybrids tackle battery downsizing with a novel approach. It might seem.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Naturally, we tend to think of electric vehicles as a new thing. Those of us who have been learning about them for at least a few years know that electric vehicles were a big chunk of the market 100 years ago. Things then got complicated, with the market changing for a variety of reasons.) Though, […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Smith Electric Vehicles announced that Smith will open an electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Chicago. Chicago will be Smith’s third location in the United States, joining the headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., and a manufacturing facility in New York City.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The City of Chicago has selected 350Green, a developer of electric vehicle (EV) charging networks ( earlier post ), to design, build and operate a network of 280 EV charging stations—73 DC Fast and 207 Level 2 charging stations—throughout the Chicago area. —City of Chicago Mayor Richard M.

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Electrek

MARCH 1, 2024

A lot of fuss was made this winter when some Tesla owners in Chicago experienced difficulty charging – but that wasn’t the experience for the majority of EV owners. In Colorado’s West Grand School District, electric school buses didn’t perform as well as their diesel counterparts. They performed better.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 1, 2022

Students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that is in a minute. “To To […].

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Chicago is joining the growing number of U.S. cities that are requiring multifamily buildings to make accommodations for electric vehicle owners. The ordinance, passed back in October, requires that new residential developments with 24 units or more provide—at minimum—two EV-ready parking spaces.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The $300-million investment will build on Electrify America’s initial priorities and expand into new areas, where the need for electric vehicle charging stations and technology are greatest or are most likely to be used regularly. Highlights of the National Cycle 2 ZEV Investment Plan include: Charging Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Hyundai unveiled the redesigned 2018 Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid models at the Chicago Auto Show. liter Nu four-cylinder GDI engine coupled with the electric motor allows the Sonata Plug-in Hybrid to operate just like the Sonata Hybrid once the onboard battery charge is depleted. Charge status. Safety Features. Car Finder.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

bp plans to invest $1 billion into the development of charging infrastructure in the United States by 2030.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 22, 2022

Scientists report that they’ve designed superfast charging methods tailored to power different types of electric vehicle batteries in 10 minutes or less without harm. CHICAGO, Aug. 22, 2022 — Despite the growing popularity of electric vehicles, many consumers still hesitate to make the switch.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2019

Electrify America and Walmart announced that more than 120 plus ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) charging stations are now operational and open to the public at Walmart stores across the US. Chargers at this power can charge a vehicle at speeds of up to 20 miles of range per minute.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the near-term charging and refueling infrastructure needs for zero-emission Class 4-8 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDV) at the national and sub-national levels. There are many options to meet both near- and long-term charging needs, the ICCT paper notes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

announced the availability of the US’ largest network of fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) stations to date. Through the Chicago-Area EV Infrastructure Project, 26 fast-chargers have been installed, with 73 total fast-chargers planned. The $21 card includes three 15-minute sessions at fast-charging stations.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid plug-in hybrid has reached the end of its charging cord. Subaru confirmed to Green Car Reports that there is no plan for a Crosstrek Hybrid in its new generation, which made its debut Thursday at the 2023 Chicago Auto Show.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

EVmatch and Verde Energy Efficiency Experts are excited to announce a new partnership to deploy more EV charging stations in the Chicago area. Below, the founder of Verde, Jamie Johnson, describes his company’s added focus on EV charging to complement their work in energy efficiency. . Available to the public at [link].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 12, 2023

Public support for EV incentives and charging infrastructure is strong, but Americans aren't necessarily buying EVs for themselves, according to a new poll.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

With the mass-production Model 3 in mind, Tesla has begun to expand its Supercharger fast-charging stations into urban areas. Earlier this month, Tesla opened its first two Supercharger stations in Chicago, Illinois, and Boston, Massachusetts.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Earlier this month, some electric vehicle (EV) owners in Chicago discovered their batteries were dead during a frigid cold spell. continued] The post Cold Weather Range Loss & Electric Vehicles: Separating Fact From Fiction appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 26, 2024

You may have heard about some Tesla owners getting frozen out of charging stations in Chicago 10 days ago or so. We also talked about our first drive of the 2024 Kia EV9 , the state of EV charging in general, our dream cars, and some of our favorite and least favorite cars of the 1990s.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Business Development Manager Position, the job entails growing the company’s charging business. Enable the next growth phase for Tesla’s charging business and the broader EV industry by joining a new team that is built around extending the reach of Tesla’s charging products. Below are the responsibilities of Tesla’s Sr.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A team from the University of Chicago, University of California, Davis, and UC Berkeley combined billions of hourly electricity meter measurements with address-level EV registration records in California—home to about half of the EVs in the United States. The takeaway here is not that EVs should never or will never be our future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Electrify America LLC announced it will install more than 2,800 workplace and residential charging stations by June 2019 in 17 of the biggest metropolitan areas in the United States. The 2,800 Level 2 charging stations will be located at approximately 500 sites, all with more than one charging station. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

In Chicago, eVgo is restoring existing Fast Charger stations; there are 26 chargers in the Chicago area, and the company is adding more. Texas has nearly 50 eVgo charging stations online in the North Texas and greater Houston areas, continuing to meet customer demand in the two largest EV markets in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2019

The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged Volkswagen AG, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, for defrauding US investors, raising billions of dollars through the corporate bond and fixed income markets while making a series of deceptive claims about the environmental impact of the company’s “clean diesel” fleet.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

Carbon Day Automotive and Coulomb Technologies unveiled a solar-powered electric vehicle charging station in the City of Chicago. The Solar Plug-In Station will be used daily by the City of Chicago to fuel the city’s electric vehicles with power from the sun. The station features a 2.4 kW solar panel array and a 5.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2022

Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hyundai Motor America, in partnership with Hyundai Capital America, announced its new Evolve+ electric vehicle subscription service at the 2023 Chicago Auto Show. Mileage overage charges can be significant. In the screen shot provided by Hyundai, the charge is $20/100 miles from 1,001 miles up to 1,500 miles—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Tesla has sold $100M in Supercharger hardware units to oil giant bp, the company announced this morning, as it attempts to bolster its EV charging infrastructure. The deal marks the first time ever that the hardware was ever purchased for an independent EV charging network. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 21, 2014

electric-car charging stations? While major cities like New York are working to encourage the use of electric cars with public charging stations, some smaller municipalities are seeing demand for them too. A suburb of Chicago with an.' Small-town America is all about quaint Main Streets, mom''n''pop stores, and.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Installing charging infrastructure (approximately $250 million); Public Education initiatives (approximately $25 million); and. billion commitment will be spent in $300 million increments over four 30-month cycles.

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