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ECOtality Wins $2.87M in Bay Area contracts, expands EV Project to the San Francisco Bay Area

Green Car Congress

has expanded The EV Project to the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area regions involved in the newly introduced program are the Air District’s jurisdiction, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma Counties. ECOtality, Inc.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. Three of the nine communities for the program are in California: Sacramento, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area. “A

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

Coulomb Technologies unveiled San Francisco's first ChargePoint America charge stations yesterday in a Priority Parking lot along the Embarcadero. The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. Ecotality's EV Project got an exclusive.)

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

For those PurpleAir and the other building-mounted sensors mentioned, the radio signal needs to reach just several meters, to a base station, potentially using a low-energy radio protocol like Bluetooth Low Energy or Zigbee, or to an Internet router using Wi-Fi. Out in the forest, though, that's not the case.

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The Race to Plug-In Hybrids Is On

Green Cars News

A powerful roster of key industry players in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle arena will come together at Infocast’s Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility in San Francisco, California. A key goal of the Obama administration is to have one million ‘PHEVs’ or a fully electric vehicle on the road by 2015.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

&# — are starting to ask themselves: With Tesla coming to town, joining burgeoning solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra and other alternative-energy firms, could Fremont become a cleantech incubator, just as South San Francisco has adopted the mantle of the “Birthplace of Biotechnology&# ? There’s more.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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