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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

Green Car Congress

Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Pecan Street also offered a limited number of rebates for the Nissan Leaf and Prius PHV. When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood.

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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

Green Car Congress

INL is also a principle participant with eTec and Nissan in coming deployment of deployment of 4,700 battery-electric Nissan Leaf vehicles in 5 greater metropolitan statistical areas. The eTec/Nissan project will document more than 70 million miles of electric drive vehicle operations and more than 1.8 Earlier post.) Oregon E.V.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. It’s better not to use them when you are driving. —David Strayer.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

Cars That Think

Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. Those arguments are not yet settled. But big automakers like.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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It’s all about connection

Electric Auto Association

Pierce has been an EV advocate since even before purchasing a Nissan LEAF in 2012. In fact, half the folks in our neighborhood are using electric lawn equipment now. If I were to leave this earth, what kind of a dent in the universe did I make? We stopped for lunch and then drove out the back way, through Banning and Beaumont.”

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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