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SDG&E to invest $7.5M in EV education push; complement to $45M charging station initiative

Green Car Congress

The education campaign will complement the $45-million pilot program recently approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to install 3,500 charging stations at 350 local businesses, multi-family communities and disadvantaged neighborhoods. The utility expects the combined $52.5

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

Charged EVs

If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. So it becomes a long time before it starts to tax the grid. So it becomes a long time before it starts to tax the grid.

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Chevy Equinox EV first drive: GM may have cracked the code in delivering a quality SUV that’s affordable [Video]

Baua Electric

Source: Scooter Doll Performance specs of the FWD 3LT Chevy Equinox EV For this drive event, the media traveled to the Motor City, home of GM and Chevy, where we all got to test out various FWD versions of the Equinox EV. This made for an enjoyable experience on the highway, in a neighborhood, or on a service road.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Held annually n the last week-end in June, the century-old event has included EVs for 38 years, and the DEVC has supported the effort for most of them. That brought a pretty good turnout of our chapter members.” The chapter’s annual participation in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb also speaks to EV technology.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

And when you hear the questions folks ask at events like these you instantly realize just how little people know and understand about what’s happening to our climate and their world. The property owners pay off the loans as an assessment item on their property tax bills. Most have no idea.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

And the work they’re doing brings California’s leading edge fight against global warming right into my neighborhood and into my home. So long as your mortgage and property tax bill are in good standing, you’ll get the money. At community events Hampel runs a free hands-on bike tune-up workshop.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? In the case of RNC, the system reduces broadband noise levels at frequencies below 250Hz whereas EOC tackles harmonic frequencies generated by ignition events in the engine. We always seem to hear that one coming from a mile away.

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