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ChargePoint ranks US metro areas for EV friendliness; SF Bay Area still on top

Green Car Congress

ChargePoint—the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network—released a list of the top 10 friendliest metropolitan areas in the US for EV drivers. Portland, OR. Atlanta, GA. Portland, OR. Detroit, MI. Detroit, MI. Denver, CO. Washington, DC. Boston, MA.

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RMI Launches Project Get Ready to Help Communities Prepare for Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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The Future @ Smart Garage

Revenge of the Electric Car

A couple weeks ago, I read about the Rocky Mountain Institute’s gathering of EV interests in Portland for “Smart Garage.&# No one else can engage customers as to the reality of driving electrically like PIA. The Smart Garage concept has become RMI’s means to describe the integration of the grid and the electric vehicle.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicles converted by Professor Andy Frank and his team at the UC Davis Hybrid Center are listed at our History of PHEVs page , with further info at www.team-fate.net. At the bottom of this page, weve begun a list of PHEV Schoolbuses. San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007.

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