Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

Check out the new Nissan Leaf on video: You’ve got to love the fact that Nissan had balls and the vision to bank their future on full on electric vehicles, leapfrogging their Japanese competition Honda and Toyota whose timid and safe bet on hybrids has already marked them as bridge technology car makers. Plus it looks ten times cooler.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Since I stop at all the stop signs, I get a certain amount of respect from the vehicles I’m sharing the road with too. I feel safer when riding on Hermosa Ave and the cars on the road don’t seem to have any real problems going around me if they need to.

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APRIL 5, 2011

streets free of motorized vehicles and open only to bicyclists and pedestrians? How’d you like to enjoy 7-and-a-half miles of L.A.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

This might have been the most important electric vehicle at the parade. There is no truth to the rumor there is cloning going on at AC Propulsion’s facility… unless you’re talking about the electric vehicles. That “V2G&# over the wheel stands for Vehicle to Grid.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

Batteries and Electric Vehicles – he is convinced that within hybrid cars will be an asterisk because electric cars will rule the roads. Utilities the AMI Smart Grid – massive investments about to happen in this area. Clean Building Materials – everything from LED lighting to solar panels.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

streets free of motorized vehicles and open only to bicyclists and pedestrians? How’d you like to enjoy 7-and-a-half miles of L.A.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 7, 2009

Both the City Police and Fire chiefs are now driving city owned alternative fuel vehicles. The new city taxi franchise agreement calls for alternative fuel or high mileage vehicles to replace 25% of the fleet. The drought is causing the city to push water conservation and discuss possible penalties.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

More to come on these zero emission vehicles in another post. We also learned from Marilyn Lyon that Federal Stimulus money will be coming L.A.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

So far GM, Toyota, Nissan, VW, Mitsubishi, have all announced plug in vehicles they will have for sale in 2010. You’ll also be finished forever with things like oil changes, tune ups, new air filters and the other maintenance that isn’t necessary with electric cars. That’s 18 months away. So don’t buy another car until you can go electric.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Vehicle Fleet. That starts with gathering consumption data from electricity, gas and vehicle fleet records and digging through the cities 1990 utilities bills. Using the ICLEI software which is tailored to the specific needs of cities, each municipality is able to determine its carbon footprint through a bit of forensic accounting.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

I began writing my Creative Greenius blog and soon earned press credentials for topics like electric vehicles and financing of renewable energy projects. I attended Council meetings and Board of Supervisors meetings and AQMD meetings and every other kind of environmental meeting I could.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

We can inventory electricity using the batteries in those plug-ins and we’ll need a newly wired smart grid to take advantage of the vehicle-t0-grid opportunities. I’m committed to getting the entire South Bay wired up for the smart grid right away to help accommodate all the Plug-in cars and solar power we’ll have.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

The May 21 issue of the South Bay’s Easy Reader free weekly newspaper confirmed the good news that Creative Greenius blog readers have known for a while now – that 10 brand new all electric BMW Mini-E test vehicles will be leased to the city for just ten bucks a month per car.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Coulomb offers a family of products and services that provide a plug-in vehicle charging infrastructure. Coulomb takes a networking approach and applies that technology to the job of charging electric vehicles. Their new charging infrastructure builds on their expertise in fast charge systems for existing industrial electric vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Times is dying and they’re taking the climate with them as they keep cutting down trees and paying an army of people to drive highly polluting vehicles to deliver the news a day late and several dollars short. The paper missed the money shot and they do not get the 350 message.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 10, 2010

Although known as a safe and experienced rider, this was Gustavo’s third time getting hit by a vehicle in the last 12 months as he traveled from Long Beach to Manhattan beach – a route that no one considers safe or easy for cyclists. Funeral and memorial details are still being planned.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2011

According to court records, Dunn had at least 23 driving infractions over the last 13 years from six different counties, among them citations for speeding and careless driving, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without a license, two parking-related transgressions and a criminal mischief-damage to property citation.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

And the brilliance of Elon Musk and the brainiacs he’s put together on his Tesla team is that they’re savvy enough to have made the Roadster a sexy, California, hardbody piece of eye candy in addition to making it 400% more efficient than any internal combustion engine vehicle ever. He’s the former President of SCE.

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JULY 2, 2011

According to court records, Dunn had at least 23 driving infractions over the last 13 years from six different counties, among them citations for speeding and careless driving, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without a license, two parking-related transgressions and a criminal mischief-damage to property citation.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Also, there would be an abundance of electrical vehicle hookups around town to entice the usage of energy-saving cars and draw in visitors. The council would like to see all the public buildings become more energy-efficient, which would mostly entail fixing “energy leaks” where heat and cool air can escape, for example.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

He also didn’t have a word to say about the coming smart grid or vehicle to grid connections. 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. Maybe Frank is in the dark on those.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Because they were so busy scamming people into buying planet-killing Hummers, Expeditions, Tahoes, Suburbans and other “the joke is on us&# vehicles, they ran their own business into the ground. . “And shut that annoying kid up, will you?!&#.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

You think HE’s anxious to see electric cars replace fossil fueled vehicles? He makes his living off cars that run out of gas or break down because of the inadequacies of the internal combustion gasoline powered engine. Fires, explosions, crashes - they’re all just money in the bank for him. I’m thinking not so much.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

So far GM, Toyota, Nissan, VW, Mitsubishi, have all announced plug in vehicles they will have for sale in 2010. You’ll also be finished forever with things like oil changes, tune ups, new air filters and the other maintenance that isn’t necessary with electric cars. That’s 18 months away. So don’t buy another car until you can go electric.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

It’s interesting what percentage of people who were early adopters of solar have also become early adopters of electric vehicles too. My customers like the technology. Because it’s fun. Well more so now than it was prior to 2006 and that’s just because electric cars are becoming more readily available. …” I mean they have the number.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Oil, the second greatest contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide, is already substantially depleted, and it is impractical to capture carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles. Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as the other fossil fuels combined, and its reserves make coal even more important for the long run.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Bedsworth is a real climate change heavyweight who spent three years as the Senior Vehicles Analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists and now focuses on climate change policy and air quality planning for the PPIC. I could have listened to her talk for the whole two and a half hours.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

Chicago-based Argonne reported even higher all-electric mileage in city driving tests of vehicles equipped with the software upgrade and PICC’s Nickel Metal Hydride battery conversion kit, now in its third generation.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2014

Muratsuchi’s Assembly Bill 2013, a measure to expand the number of electric vehicles entitled to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes, had sailed through two committees with little opposition before falling 11 votes short when it reached the Assembly floor Monday. According to the Sacramento Bee , .

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 10, 2009

And all that available cheap solar electricity is what’s going to drive the sales explosion of electric and plug-in vehicles in California just as they’re becoming available over the next three years. That’s jobs, jobs, jobs and money, money, money for California.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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JUNE 4, 2011

The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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