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Fast-Charging Adds Appeal To Electric Cars—Especially In Portland

Green Car Reports

If you plan to get a Nissan Leaf or Mitsubishi i (or already have one), and you live in Portland, Oregon, consider yourself fortunate. The same goes for a handful of places including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and certain corridors in Tennessee, Arizona, and Texas—as well as, perhaps, the Chicago and Detroit areas.

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EPRI and GTI launch Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI) to accelerate low-carbon energy technologies

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The LCRI is targeting advancements in low-carbon electric generation technologies and low-carbon energy carriers, such as hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic fuels, and biofuels.

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Nissan Announces Dates for US LEAF EV Tour

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Portland, Ore.: Middle Tennessee: Jan. San Jose: Dec. Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Dec. Vancouver, Canada: Dec. Phoenix/Tucson: Dec. Las Vegas: Jan. Midwest/East Coast. Detroit: Jan. Knoxville/Chattanooga, Tenn.: Washington, D.C.: Raleigh, N.C.: Orlando: Feb.

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Underwriters Laboratories Named Exclusive Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory for The EV Project

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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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ECOtality Expands to Australia

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Charge station installation will accompany the deployment of 4,700 Nissan LEAFs.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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includes Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, will provide first. Greater Portland. Center for. Transportation and. the Environment. The Southeast Regional Alternative Fuels Market Initiatives Program, which. responder and vehicle maintenance technician training; develop. Council of. Governments.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. Nissan plans to build the Leaf in Tennessee eventually.). If electric cars do take off, consumers and society could benefit.