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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

Blink Charging

Many worry about finding a way to get power to an electric vehicle during a natural disaster, but what is not discussed is how electric vehicles can provide power during an emergency. Nissan, the Japanese-based company, saw an opportunity to utilize their fully electric model Leaf to assist in these disasters.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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Keepin' it simple

Plugs and Cars

Electric Vehicle Service Equipment (EVSE) home wall units are priced at between about $1000 and $2500. An empty Volt pack will take 10 hours to fully recharge; an empty LEAF about 20 hours. Recharge time will usually be much less than what it takes to go from empty to full. They’ve kept my LEAF juiced, after all.

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Feature: The 3 Best EVs for Road Tripping

Clean Fleet Report

There are a variety of benefits to swapping your gas guzzler for an electric vehicle. Sure, you’ll have to plug in and recharge eventually, but with a median range of more than 250 miles per charge, you won’t have to worry about refueling for a while in a modern EV. Three Places To Cruise the Country on Electrons. Polestar 2.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Niro EV

Clean Fleet Report

When the all-electric Kia Niro was introduced in 2019 it followed the 2017 Niro hybrid and then the 2018 Niro plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Clean Fleet Report has been impressed with all three versions, as well as Kia’s eco-friendly philosophy that this year saw the debut of the all-new, all-electric EV6.

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5+1 Ways to Eliminate Range Anxiety

Get Electric Vehicle

Anyhow as EV evangelists, it’s our responsibility to make you comfortable with electric vehicles and make the EV transition as smooth as possible. Often, anxiety about anything is due to the lack of expertise or knowledge about a specific topic and electric vehicles is no different. Know Thyself.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle.

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