Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

Enterprise Rent-A-Car will be the first to offer Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicles (EVs) for daily and weekly rentals later this month. The Volt vehicles will be available at the Mark Christopher Auto Center in Ontario, Calif., along with a new charging station.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2010

I’ve got to admit I came to this column about short-range, slow-speed Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) with a negative bias. I’m a strong proponent of full speed electric vehicles and I’ve been growing increasingly excited about the new plug-in Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt coming to market later this year.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 28, 2010

GE and Nissan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly research “smart charging&# stations. For more information, read the article: GE, Nissan team on smart charging for electric cars. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: GE, Nissan team on smart charging for electric cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And I’m one those million since they’re counting plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) as well as full battery electrics. I think that’s fair since on a good day my 3 ½-year-old Chevrolet Volt has a 61-mile all-electric range, roughly comparable to a used Nissan Leaf or Fiat 500e. On top of that, I’m currently running at 80+% electric miles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Southern California Edison (SCE) released a white paper summarizing learnings from its Electric Vehicle (EV) readiness program. SCE began its PEV readiness efforts in 2009, and quantified the anticipated impact of PEVs on the electric grid before consumers began buying and leasing them.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

to help shape future electric vehicle services. Pecan Street also offered a limited number of rebates for the Nissan Leaf and Prius PHV. When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Participation in the 2021 National Drive Electric Week , hosted by the Electric Auto Association (EAA) along with the Sierra Club , Plugin America , and EVHybridNoire , reflected the growing nationwide interest in electric vehicles (EVs), as well as the emphasis placed on expanding diversity in the EV marketplace.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. Each one is annotated with data on population, types of households, vehicles, and other data.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 1, 2021

Like nearly everyone else with an electric vehicle (EV) on Saint Thomas, Doug White, co-founder of Virgin Islands Electric Vehicle Association , drives a Nissan LEAF. Of course, they have to offer other Nissan models as well, but their focus has definitely been on driving electric.” “The

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Participation in the 2021 National Drive Electric Week , hosted by the Electric Auto Association (EAA) along with the Sierra Club , Plugin America , and EVHybridNoire , reflected the growing nationwide interest in electric vehicles (EVs), as well as the emphasis placed on expanding diversity in the EV marketplace.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. Nissan Leafs, which were the first battery-electric vehicle to hit the U.S. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. John Voelcker Great question.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. Nissan Leafs, which were the first battery-electric vehicle to hit the U.S. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. John Voelcker Great question.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

California’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate ( earlier post ) remains an indispensable driver of electric vehicle policies worldwide, unique in its ability to foster technology-neutral research and development, according to a new report by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Since its founding in 2019, the members of the Inland Empire Electric Vehicle Association (IEEVA ) have embraced the help and support of sister organizations and have offered support in return. Pierce has been an EV advocate since even before purchasing a Nissan LEAF in 2012. One neighbor switched out all of his lawn equipment.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Meanwhile, the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in car sharing services could be one way for automakers to promote this technology that is still struggling for traction in the marketplace. They promote sustainability by taking cars off the road and adding electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) CTO Efficient Drivetrains Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

However, according to a recent report from Pike Research, “Electric Vehicle Information Technology Systems”, many utilities could be unprepared to deal with the impact of EVs on the electrical grid, due to a lack of standards for sharing information between utilities and external systems. —senior analyst John Gartner.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

In nearby Silicon Valley, companies are ordering workplace charging stations in the belief that their employees will be first in line when electric cars begin arriving in showrooms. Around the same time, General Motors will introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a vehicle able to go 40 miles on electricity before its small gasoline engine kicks in.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

For all the fanfare, sales of electric cars are currently negligible (outside of golf courses, that is). How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. The Journal Report.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

The O Series, pronounced ‘zero,’ are all-electric vehicles launching in 2026. Kia introduced three very cool-looking and futuristic commercial vehicles to CES 2024, with some of them entering production as soon as 2025. Timing: BMW says all these technologies will be become available over the course of 2024.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 12, 2022

While I was aware of this trend — I see it loud and clear in my own neighborhood — I hadn’t realized how wide-spread this trend actually was in the US. So if my math and estimates are close to correct, roughly 27 million households living in single-family homes cannot pull into their garage and plug in and charge an electric vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? We always seem to hear that one coming from a mile away.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2021

The turning radius was impressive, making for easy U-turns in your neighborhood. One-pedal is where an electric vehicle can be slowed and even brought to a complete stop without using the brake pedal. Electric vehicles that have one-pedal capability typically add more energy to the battery and help with driver fatigue.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Gallery: Chrysler EV USPS mini-van [Source: Chrysler] PRESS RELEASE: Chrysler Celebrates Earth Day by Revealing All-new Electric Minivan Concepts to U.S. Our ENVI electric minivan concepts illustrate Chryslers innovation with electric vehicle technology and show what the future could hold." Postal Service.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. Indeed, adopting electric vehicles will go a long way in helping to improve environmental outcomes. Here we’ll show you in greater detail why that is.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. Companies like ECOtality are already working with Nissan, which seems to have given up on battery swapping. It works with current customer habits quite well.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Similarly, such mandates and incentives will drive the market for electric cars for a while. The Oregon Legislature is contemplating bills that provide credits for both manufacturers and purchasers of electric cars. and Mark Brady, the departments sustainable development liaison.

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