Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Friday November 22, 2013 Today I met a San Francisco cop. We chatted while he finished charging his LEAF at the recently installed Quick Charger at the new Market Street Whole Foods in San Francisco. Bill lives a good 60 miles from San Francisco, so he needs to get some juice to make his trip home after work.
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. If you are a consumer, and you get a Volt, Smart, or Ford electric car, you probably qualify for a free home charge station.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 13, 2011
All plug-in cars these days come with a 120-volt charge cord. This will actually be sufficient for many if not most Volt drivers, and quite a few LEAF drivers. An empty Volt pack will take 10 hours to fully recharge; an empty LEAF about 20 hours. The result will be simple, safe and cheap. Cost of upgrade: under $300.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2009
PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. The average peak electric demand for a house in San Francisco is 1.8 In other words, adding an electric vehicle at 220 is like adding another home to the network or to the system, and that would be a home in the San Ramon area. —Peter Darbee.
Charged EVs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
megawatts (3,000 amps at 1,500 volts). We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. We were a startup company, and we sold our technology to STMicroelectronics, who produced it cheap. I and my team were part of the industries that created power-line communication technology.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. Electric cars will be one answer.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit.
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