Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Bill lives a good 60 miles from San Francisco, so he needs to get some juice to make his trip home after work. That’s why I ran into him at the Whole Food DC charger. Some argue it’s so easy and so cheap employers should just do it. Maybe they tout it as smart and cheap.
Clean Fleet Report
JANUARY 4, 2023
Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. This will help make sure you don’t run out of juice and have to worry about being stranded on the side of the road. In addition to an emergency kit, you should also ensure that you have adequate car insurance. Keep your EV Battery Charged.
Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. Free Juice Bar explicitly sells charge stations to offer free power. Obviously not.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6
Plugs and Cars
JULY 13, 2011
I am pleased to participate in the EV Project, which came late to the San Francisco Bay Area, and happy to get my tax-payer funded charger and DC Fast port. They’ve kept my LEAF juiced, after all. For the electric vehicle project, broadly speaking, to be successful, we need to be mindful to keep it simple and keep it cheap.
EV Central
AUGUST 9, 2023
Day 4: Juicing Up Despite all my driving fun, I’m still returning just under Kia’s official consumption figure. I bet the brakes would take a pasting, and those 21-inch Michelin Pilot Sport 4s aren’t going to be cheap to replace after a few track sessions. Opportunities galore. I mustn’t be trying hard enough.
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