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Transportation Electrification Accord sets out multi-sector roadmap to electrified future

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Advanced Energy Economy, Energy Foundation, Illinois Citizen Utility Board, Natural Resources Defense Council, Plug-in America and Sierra Club worked with diverse stakeholder and business interests to draft the Accord. —Chris King, chief policy officer, Siemens Digital Grid. Context And Guiding Principles.

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1st major utility proposal for EV charging infrastructure presented to CPUC

Green Car Congress

A diverse set of public interest groups, automakers, labor unions, and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) submitted a proposed settlement to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accelerate the deployment of smart electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that would support the utility grid in San Diego.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. Learning to install solar with GRID Alternatives in 2009. Showing Sierra Club bigwig, Evan Gillespie how much cargo room our car has.

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IEEE’s Plan To Help Combat Climate Change

Cars That Think

Efforts include the work done by societies such as the IEEE Power & Energy Society , to which I belong; conferences such as the IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference ; publications including IEEE Electrification ; and technical standards, like IEEE 1547 for connecting distributed energy resources to the grid. Nuclear power.

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UCS proposes plug-in cars roadblock: What's wrong with Big Enviro?

Plugs and Cars

And that reaction was from an auto company that is taking a "go slow" approach to using grid electricity as a "fuel" for cars. Big Enviro - the national Sierra Club , the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC,) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) - have long been less than enthusiastic about plug-ins. Let's be clear.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. The following lists are not exhaustive or fully comprehensive, but we have tried to include a representative list of resources for each category. Why Am I a Member? Newsletter Vol. 1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction?

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Is GM's Plug-in Hybrid for Real? What Say Big Enviro?

Plugs and Cars

The environmental Big Three - Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Union of Concerned Scientists - remain on the sidelines of the plug-in discussion. And now Rick Waggoner of GM, creator and killer of the EV1, has again breached the industry taboo on connecting to the cleaner, cheaper, ubiquitous electric grid.

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