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Utilize The ODOT Community Charging Rebate To Fund Your Oregon EV Charging Project

EV Match

For those in the Pacific Northwest, specifically the state of Oregon, the Plugging In Oregon Community Charging Rebate program through the Oregon Department of Transportation provides generous funding opportunities for qualifying parking sites and multi-family housing locations. How much do the rebates cover?

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EEI encourages utilities to spend at least 5% of fleet acquisition budgets on plug-ins

Green Car Congress

The paper encourages investor-owned electric utilities to meet an industry-wide goal to spend at least 5% of annual fleet acquisition budgets on plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and technologies. of the vehicles purchased by electric utilities in the last five years were equipped with plug-in technology. The 5% ask is a starting point.

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Oregon To Test Nation's First Per-Mile Road Fee In Lieu Of Gas Taxes

Green Car Reports

That''s because road maintenance is heavily reliant on revenue from gas taxes, and that revenue is shrinking as cars use less fuel--and those that run on grid electricity use none. Green Gas Tax Infrastructure Oregon plug-in cars state laws taxes'

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Hillsboro, Oregon to Install 16 Coulomb Charging Stations

Green Car Congress

The City of Hillsboro, Oregon plans to deploy 16 Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for plug-in and electric vehicles. The charging stations will be installed in downtown Hillsboro, including at a new intermodal transit facility to be built in 2009.

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Mitsubishi to debut eight xEVs in next five years: hybrids, plug-in hybrids, EVs

Green Car Congress

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) plans to introduce eight hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by fiscal year 2015 in anticipation that demand for low-carbon, fuel-efficient automobiles will expand worldwide. by Jack Rosebro. Mitsubishi will introduce 8 xEVs by FY 2015. Click to enlarge.

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Electric motorcycles are gaining momentum

Plug in America

Plug In America Co-Founder Paul Scott’s current ride is the Zero SR/S. “I With fewer moving parts, electric motorcycles also have very low fuel and maintenance costs. Federal tax credit : Tax credit for the purchase of a new two-wheeled plug-in electric drive motor vehicle. Why should I consider an electric motorcycle? .

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Oil giant Shell partners with Penske for light-duty EV charging

Teslarati

Penske Truck Leasing and Shell will initially deploy a series of Level 2 electric truck charging stations with plug-and-charge capabilities in four U.S. Twenty-three locations will be built in California, with three more in Washington State, two in Colorado, Illinois, and Oregon, and one in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Penske is based.

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