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How To Choose the Right EV Charging Equipment for Your Dealership

Blink Charging

Public charging for dealerships Installing EV charging stations for general public use will be a service to your neighborhood and can act as another source of revenue for your dealership. Your business will be added to the Blink Network and popular map services like Google, helping your customers find EV charging stations nearby.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. Based on the platform of the Inspire mid-size sedan, this vehicle features a fuel-efficient 2.0-liter Click to enlarge. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. The service allows members to avoid the fixed costs of car ownership as well as parking charges, fuel costs, or recurring annual fees.

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How Government Incentives Help Convenience Stores Install Electric Vehicle Chargers

Blink Charging

With the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program, the United States will soon be connected from coast to coast by EV chargers. Through the RFID reader, drivers can also pay via Apple Pay and Google Pay. kW of electricity.

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Four Motiv electric shuttle buses deployed in one-year demo in Mountain View, CA

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The Mountain View Community Shuttle service is aimed at moving residents and visitors through the City between neighborhoods, shopping centers, medical complexes, City facilities, and recreation areas. Google is funding the bus service for the community. The buses went into service last week.

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas catalyzes $500M, 2,500 home development project

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Google is investing $50 million in Texas this year to develop office space. The neighborhood closest to Mirador had its average house price jump $93,000 from December 2020 to December 2021, Redfin data suggests. Austin has been one of the United States’ most heavily developed cities in the past several years.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.