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NREL study finds that uncoordinated plug-in vehicle charging could prove challenging to the grid

Green Car Congress

Dr. Matteo Muratori, a transportation and energy systems engineer at NREL, developed highly resolved models of residential power demand and PEV use to assess the impact of uncoordinated in-home PEV charging on residential power demand. This effect is exacerbated when higher in-home power charging is adopted.

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Driving Your City Forward With Clean Electric Public Transportation

EV Connect

The Environmental Impact of Gas-Powered Public Transit To get a clear picture of the potential benefits of electric public transportation, we first have to consider the costs and negative effects of our current reality. Download Guide. Electric public transportation is essential to creating cleaner, greener cities.

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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. Volker and Calvin G. Volker, Calvin G. Source: ZipCharge.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. The proportionate contribution of a single power plant operating 50 years and burning ~100 rail cars of coal per day (100 tons of coal per rail car) would be about 400 species!

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Road Trip: 2021 Volkswagen ID4

Clean Fleet Report

But what about venturing out further, on a trip that usually would be taken in a gasoline powered car? of torque, powered by a 77-kilowatt-hour (kWh) lithium-ion battery. 1) The first thing to do with any charging company is to download its app, and follow the steps to register a credit card. ID4 Technology.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

Click Here to Download a PDF copy of my presentation ). They’ve got 4,075 square feet suitable for solar which would allow them to generate 61 Kw of electric power – that’s almost twice what my whole zip code produces. And as you can see from the County’s estimate above the solar facts agree with me.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Deffeyes "The Party's Over", by Richard Heinberg "Power Down: Options and actions for a post-carbon world", by Richard Heinberg, 2004 "The Solar Economy", by Herman Scheer "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Oil Shock", by Matt Simmons Return to top Copyright © 2005-2009 Plug In America. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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