Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Ford plug-in hybrid owners are operating in electric mode nearly 60% of the time, according to new aggregate data collected from Ford’s MyFord Mobile app. —Joe Rork, MyFord Mobile product manager. Behavior Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Hybrids Plug-ins' Noon to 2 p.m.

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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. of Portland, Ore., was plugged into what is billed as the world’s first shore-side electrical grid. ron.white@latimes.com.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Quality concerns have taken on new urgency after news accounts, including a report in The New York Times , that Boeing workers had opened and reinstalled the panel that blew off the plane, known as a door plug. The incident terrified passengers and forced the pilots to make an emergency landing in Portland, Ore.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

The subject has taken on new significance after news accounts, including a report in The New York Times , that Boeing workers opened and then reinstalled the panel, known as a door plug. The plug tore away from the Alaska plane shortly after takeoff from Portland, Ore. Lately, Boeing appoints C.E.O.s Boeing declined to comment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

BP Products North America Inc., a partner in The EV Project, will install ECOtality’s Blink electric vehicle (EV) DC Fast Chargers (480 volt 3-Phase AC input)—unveiled at the Business of Plugging In 2010 conference—at 45 BP and ARCO locations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

Ford says that the new Transit, which begins production in Kansas City in 2013, will achieve at least 25% better fuel economy than current E-Series vans. For example, the tool can demonstrate how operating an electric vehicle in Portland, Ore., EcoBoost V6. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The vehicles will be powered by 11,210 UL-Listed charging stations in homes, and commercial and public locations in five US states: Arizona (Phoenix and Tucson), Washington (Seattle), Oregon (Portland, Salem, Corvallis and Eugene), California (San Diego) and Tennessee (Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

and along Interstate 5 and Highway 101 on the West Coast, connecting metropolitan areas from Portland, Ore., Hendrik Muth, Senior Vice President, Product Marketing and Strategy, Volkswagen of America. through the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles to San Diego.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! This is a major step froward in EV mass production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

and on the west coast covering and connecting the metropolitan areas of Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. —Jörg Sommer, vice president, product marketing and strategy, Volkswagen of America. Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Plug-ins Standards'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

Well data was plugged into PNNL’s STOMP computer model, which simulates the movement of fluids below ground, to determine how much air the various sites under consideration could reliably hold and return to the surface.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. What happens when we plug in 1.2-megawatt

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As Rocsys co-founder and CEO Crijn Bouman pointed out, “It doesn’t make sense to have to manually plug it in while the vehicle can just park itself.” The company is steadily signing up customers as it moves toward serial production. In the big fleets, it’s more about reliability of plugging in.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

Chevrolet is hosting a series of media drives this week for the production version of its new Spark EV ( earlier post ). The high-performance motor is shared with another—unnamed—electrified product, and the gearbox is right out of the production 6-speed automatic transmission. Electric (Battery) Plug-ins'

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

A couple weeks ago, I read about the Rocky Mountain Institute’s gathering of EV interests in Portland for “Smart Garage.&# is where I feel Plug In America should be involved. Amory Lovins. No one else represents the voice of EV users like we do. Of all the participants involved, this was the one area that was lacking.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

400 million in grants to purchase thousands of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles for test demonstrations in several dozen locations; to deploy them and evaluate their performance; to install electric charging infrastructure; and to provide education and workforce training to support the transition to advanced electric transportation systems.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Electric Island project, a collaboration between Daimler Trucks North America and Portland General Electric, will be a test bed for all kinds of heavy-duty EV charging solutions. In Europe, Daimler’s eCitaro electric bus and the Fuso eCanter Class 4 van are both in production. Electric trucks are finally starting to roll.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

ultra You might also like: Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More The Chinese BYD F3DM, First Mass Produced Electric Car, Fails with Consumers GM Ditches Volt for Geo Metro Hybrid? is a Green Options Media Production. is a Green Options Media Production. About Gas 2.0

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Focus is supposed to get 100 miles to a charge, but Frank is very worried about where people are going to plug in their cars. Frank didn’t mention anything about the different cities like Portland and San Jose to name a couple who are building the first wave of plug in infrastructure. Plugging Plug-Ins, Part I.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 15, 2010

The Toronto Mayor jumped from an all electric Mitsubishi to a plug in hybrid Fitzker positively on fire for them both. Like Portland, like Paris, like Tel Aviv, like Tokyo, like Los Angeles, like Copenhagen, like Hawaii! Toronto would lead! warmer there by the way). Change is happening.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

First shown as a concept vehicle at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show, the production car version of Mitsubishi i was introduced to the Japanese public in January 2006. A redesigned center console featuring improved materials will also feature prominently on the new North American Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Background. Battery ventilation fan.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it was expanding its scrutiny of Boeing, increasing oversight of the company with an audit of production of the 737 Max 9, a week after a panel in the body of one of those planes was blown out during flight. On Thursday, the F.A.A. Boeing said in a statement that it welcomed “the F.A.A.’s

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nearly three weeks after a hole blew open on a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight, terrifying passengers, new details about the jet’s production are intensifying scrutiny of Boeing’s quality-control practices. The door plug is placed where an emergency exit door would be if a jet had more seats.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. "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.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

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.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 7, 2024

The plane landed safely, but the event, on a flight from Portland, Ore., Federal authorities focused attention on a mid-cabin door plug, which is used to fill the space where an emergency exit would be placed if the plane were configured with more seats. to Ontario, Calif.,

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 7, 2024

The plane landed safely, but the event, on a flight from Portland, Ore., Since then, Boeing has invested in and worked more closely with that supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, to address production problems. “We And production of both the 737 and 787 has been slow to pick up amid those and other problems with quality and the supply chain.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. Shameless self plugs here.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Hoping the broader crisis would provide cover for the effects of years of bad management and undesirable product, the over-compensated execs from Detroit flew in separate private jets to DC seeking a handout. Many would like to see a bailout with strings to drive retooling for plug-in cars.

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