Remove Light Remove Portland Remove Products Remove Wind
article thumbnail

Daimler Truck North America and partners to form JV for nationwide charging network for MD and HD commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

The sites will also be available for light-duty vehicles to serve the greater goal of electrifying mobility. In cooperation with the local utility company Portland General Electric (PGE), DTNA opened the first-of-its-kind public charging site for commercial vehicles in the US in Portland, OR.

article thumbnail

Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

article thumbnail

Chevrolet Spark EV: speedy, smooth and quiet; the importance of motor control

Green Car Congress

Chevrolet is hosting a series of media drives this week for the production version of its new Spark EV ( earlier post ). The stator comprises a steel core that supports the motor winding, while intensifying and directing the magnetic fields between winding and rotor; GM uses bar wound configurations in its permanent magnet motors.

Chevrolet 325
article thumbnail

Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bikes had their own express lanes, their own concrete lane barriers, their own street lights, their own place on subways, their own bus racks, their own hipster club parking spaces, their own prams, even their own kind of road-rage. Like Portland, like Paris, like Tel Aviv, like Tokyo, like Los Angeles, like Copenhagen, like Hawaii!

article thumbnail

Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives.

article thumbnail

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.

BYD 62
article thumbnail

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon?

Oregon 58