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No regrets: A Phoenix mom moves beyond her gas-powered car and doesn’t look back

Plug in America

Written by Amanda Goebel – During daily pick-up and drop-offs at her daughter’s elementary school in Phoenix, Arizona, Jazmin L.’s The answer was simple for Jazmin, a researcher who works for the City of Phoenix. s six-year-old noticed something peculiar about her mom’s vehicle. In fact, her six-year-old has embraced the change.

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BP to Install 45 Ecotality Blink DC Fast Charging Stations

Green Car Congress

a partner in The EV Project, will install ECOtality’s Blink electric vehicle (EV) DC Fast Chargers (480 volt 3-Phase AC input)—unveiled at the Business of Plugging In 2010 conference—at 45 BP and ARCO locations. BP Products North America Inc., The project is funded with a $114.8

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

We need to go all out in building charging infrastructure and developing the workforce required to install and maintain it.” EV1 started it off Martinson, who was a satisfied Porsche owner in the early 00s, was on a flight from New York to Phoenix when he found himself sitting next to the CEO of Arizona’s largest utility company. “We

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Pennsylvania DEP awards more than $4.4M in alternative fuels grants to 12 projects; bulk for natural gas

Green Car Congress

will receive $86,500 to convert four vans to compressed natural gas and install three slow-fill compressor units for fueling on-site. Level III charging stations provide 480 volts of direct current, allowing an electric car to charge in about a half hour. Phoenix Contact Inc. Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc.

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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It would create more jobs -- in the installation of charging stations here in the city and the Valley -- also we would be buying the cars and the U.S. So Phoenix, as I said when I announced the plan, will lead by example." Its part of Gordons vision to turn Americas fifth largest city into a carbon-neutral place to live.

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The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

Creative Greenius

Understanding Ohm’s Law of resistance, the basics of current, amps and volts, not to mention the concepts of alternating current, Kirchhoff’s Circuit laws and the many fun equations that spell it all out - if you happen to read and understand those hieroglyphics - had me feeling pretty damn ignorant and out of my element.

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The "Spirit of DC" -- Back in AZ and Team Building with Tucson Clean Cities, Bookmans, starting mid-January 2010.

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

And also, Bob Oldfather of Bookmans www.Bookmans.com - a dynamic Tucson Clean Cities Coalition member, who has installed, or will install, six Coloumb challenging stations at all six Booksmans (three stores in Tucson, two in Phoenix and one in Flagstaff). availabe 110-volt outlets (see www.MilagroCohousing.org ).

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