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California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

Green Car Congress

The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. The funding for the project comes from fees collected under the state’s climate change law, AB 32. Earlier post.).

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Study: California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits go mostly out of state

Green Car Congress

The open-access study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine , assessed emissions and environmental-equity patterns of greenhouse gases and associated air pollutants between 2011 and 2012, before the start of California’s cap-and-trade program, versus from 2013 through 2015, after carbon trading began. Cushing et al. Cushing et al.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Let me tell you about it.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. I’m not asking them for money, I’m asking them to change a rule. I think there’s another perspective you can come from too.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. So Tesla knew it had to set up its own fast-charging network, which it started to do in the fall of 2012, actually. The EV charging spectrum—not to coin a pun —has several components, you're asking about road trips first.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. So Tesla knew it had to set up its own fast-charging network, which it started to do in the fall of 2012, actually. The EV charging spectrum—not to coin a pun —has several components, you're asking about road trips first.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Even with climate change, they’ve had to be educated.” The DEVC has been involved with legislation regarding tax credits for EVs, imposition of fees to compensate for loss in state gas tax revenue, regulations on e-bikes and neighborhood electric street vehicles, and many other issues. my Hornet was EV-24.