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EV acquire hobby creeps up slowly

Baua Electric

has constructed its personal national charging community. Certainly, electrical and hybrid automobiles made up part of all unused retail automobile registrations within the San Francisco segment in March and April this time, S&P International Mobility discovered. Normal Motors and Ford Motor Co. It’s the first main U.S.

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Calif. Energy Commission approves energy efficiency rules for battery charger systems; automotive chargers exempted

Green Car Congress

This exception does not apply to autoettes, electric personal assistive mobility devices, golf carts, or low speed vehicles. Battery chargers for both large and small appliances are composed of (1) a power supply (corded plug); (2) a battery; and (3) internal charging circuitry. —Energy Commission Chair Dr. Robert Weisenmiller.

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Ford and Microsoft Partnering on EV Smart Charging

Green Car Congress

announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. Ford is the first automaker to announce the planned use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It As an example, Freund referenced an EAASV history highlight, Tesla CTO J.B. Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

“Hybrid vehicles compete with the internal combustion engine. Driebe’s market near Sacramento is home to about 80,000 California state employees, many of whom are worried about the state’s current budget crisis. But EVs are a segment all their own.&#. billion loan from Washington, he says.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. But during this same past year, I’ve also been attending the meetings of the South Bay Cities Green Task Force.

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Al Muratsuchi Votes To Kill Community Choice Then Finds Out He Was Duped & Calls Me To Apologize

Creative Greenius

You’d think the International Brotherhood of ELECTRICAL workers would be smart and strategic enough to have unionized the solar installers and would be aware of the UCLA Luskin report that says that putting solar on only 5% of L.A. For the record, Bradford is a Democrat too. roofs would generate 29,000 new jobs. .

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