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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

Green Car Congress

To support powering the fleets, Electrify America will also install charging stations with ultra-fast chargers to power each service. More than 90 percent of the micro-shuttle’s service territory is in a low-income or disadvantaged Sacramento neighborhood. EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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First EVs in new car-sharing program with Envoy to roll out in Sacramento; 142 e-Golfs by early 2019; Sac-to-Zero

Green Car Congress

Over a 10-year period ending in 2027, Electrify America is investing $800 million in California to install electric vehicle-charging infrastructure and ZEV education and access programs in the US. The Sac-to-Zero education and outreach campaign is being executed by local communications firm 3fold Communications.

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Two US EV Charging Station Firsts

Green Car Congress

Teslas, RAV4 EVs, Ford Rangers, Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, even EV conversions can be charged at the six-port station, in the parking lot of the new Woodland Gateway Shopping Center. has installed its ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations at its brewery in Chico, CA. Tesla and RAV4 EV charging at the new station.

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More charging access on the way?

Electric Auto Association

It would be a mistake to believe the answer is simply the wide deployment of public charging stations scattered like gas stations along corridors and neighborhoods. This University of California, Davis study is one among that shows, 86% of electric car owners rely on home charging. We have provided sample emails and talking points. (1)

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.

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More charging access on the way?

Electric Auto Association

It would be a mistake to believe the answer is simply the wide deployment of public charging stations scattered like gas stations along corridors and neighborhoods. This University of California, Davis study is one among that shows, 86% of electric car owners rely on home charging. We have provided sample emails and talking points. (1)

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

EV Adoption

Thigpen at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and published in The Journal of Transport and Land Use (Note: study PDF will automatically download) estimated that 37% of the households in the Sacramento, CA market they studied do not use their garage for parking cars. The study by Jamey M. Volker and Calvin G. Volker, Calvin G.