Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Plug-in hybrids might be polluting a lot more than the emissions-test numbers suggest. Portland is re-upping on the Electric Avenue concept, but for big electric trucks this time. Daimler’s Smart plant sale will enable something that’s not small and not electric.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 25, 2016
Officials in those cities find electric cars attractive for their ability to reduce pollution,among other reasons. Since modern electric cars went on sale in volume five years ago, some cities have been more eager to promote them than others.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JUNE 4, 2009
Cold Ironing is the term for plugging a ship’s electrical system into the on-shore grid to supply power so that the ship’s giant diesel engine can be turned off while it’s docked. Read about it in the La Times story: Port of Long Beach takes ‘giant step’ toward pollution reduction. of Portland, Ore.,
EV Match
JUNE 28, 2023
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.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2017
Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
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. One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem.
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