Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex.

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EV Match

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

EVmatch will use the funding to install 120 publicly available Level 2 EV charging stations – currently the most affordable charging option available – with EVmatch ’s unique reservation-based sharing software at multi-family properties throughout Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

He’s now getting to see what started as an innovative way for his family to afford solar panels, spread out nationally like that proverbial ripple generated by that solitary pebble. climate change energy efficiency environment green buildings renewable energy solar power AB 811 Cisco Devries Howard Choy L.A.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Making the transition to cleaner, lower polluting near-zero and zero-emission vehicles is a critical component to addressing California’s clean air and climate challenges. There are currently 10 operational hydrogen refueling stations in California—the most recent opened in May 2014 on the CSU Los Angeles campus.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jack Rosebro, founder of Perfect Sky in Los Angeles [and a contributor to Green Car Congress ], spoke of the need for government policy makers to move beyond incremental changes that are not providing enough incentive for the market to produce alternatives to oil as the almost exclusive source of energy for road and rail transportation.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I’d like to have me some solar, but I can’t afford it right now. The law passed back in July of this year, but none of the money is flowing yet to anyone in my city of Torrance or my county of Los Angeles. All at once it seemed so clear to me. My situation is exactly the same as most of America. The county of L.A.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

In coordination with local air officials, the California Air Resources Board is initiating a retire-and-replace pilot program in the Greater Los Angeles area and San Joaquin Valley to help people of low income replace old, polluting cars with cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicles that also cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. If you can afford them. You say you’re looking for something a little larger? This might have been the most important electric vehicle at the parade. This is Tom Gage the President and CEO of AC Propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The Prius PHEV has already made its European debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show debut, and Toyota is doing its American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. December 2, 2009 -- The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) will make it’s North American debut today at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

Residents of the Bay Area , South Coast Area (including Los Angeles), San Joaquin Valley , and Sacramento area who meet income and vehicle eligibility requirements for their area can receive a rebate of up to $9,500 toward the purchase of a new or used plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), battery electric (BEV), or fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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EV Life

AUGUST 24, 2023

Its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2018 marked the beginning of a transformative journey, propelling Rivian into the forefront of the electric vehicle revolution. But the R1T’s journey to market was not without its challenges.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2009

We cannot afford to wait for them and we don’t have to. And we can’t afford another big monthly payment anyway. Perhaps one of my many readers who work for the City of Torrance or the County of Los Angeles wants to pick that torch up and run with it. I’m ready to start right now.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In 340 miles of driving through Southern California counties of Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles, we averaged 4.1 Clever touches Kia has a clever design to go between the dual-zone climate and infotainment controls. Wind $40,875 Wave $45,875 Observations: 2023 Kia Niro EV Practical and affordable. The liquid-cooled 64.8

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

One was affordability. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I Their first question is, “Why should I take on the costs of installing EV chargers when most of my tenants don’t own or can’t afford EVs?” households.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades? As one CARB member has stated , their concern is climate, whereas solving power generation is the responsibility of the CPUC. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). This equals about one-fifth of a proportional carbon budget afforded international aviation under a 1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. for climate control in automobiles. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company). Climate Control System (ATB) MIT will develop advanced adsorption-based hot and cold. batteries for effective climate control of electric vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

“We are trying to be proactive about how to make sure that the transformers that serve these homes and neighborhoods are robust enough,” said Doug Kim, an executive at Southern California Edison, which serves Los Angeles. They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Sure, if you need to make lots of long trips in a car, and can only afford to have one car, then probably a Tesla’s not for you. Where is affordable. With this price I can buy a nice used C200 class Mercedes and still have money to afford Gas……uuuuuugh. Please wake up…… — Anthony 20.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). We can give America an affordable car that gets 100 miles per gallon. GM Press Release ). But its ready now. We can do this.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 25, 2009

It’s pretty swell all by itself, but it doesn’t work too well in the current state economic climate where IOUs have ruled and our ex movie star Governor has gone full on looney tunes taking to posting wacky YouTube videos interacting with his big old OJ style knife. That means doing an energy retrofit on all of our 13.2

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2009

The Copenhagen Climate Treaty talks start next week on Monday, the 7th of December, a day that already lives in infamy but now awaits a new nom de plume. We’ll be holding our South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action community’s candlelight vigil in Hermosa Beach. Punting the ball was the new goal.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Hybrids are a proven winner, but a series-hybrid (range extended EV), such as the Volt takes things to a much higher level with existing and "mostly" affordable tech.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 16, 2009

Just ask Los Angeles Lakers Basketball fans. Ann Livingston is the Sustainability Coordinator of the county and the woman in charge of their Climate Smart program. They’re already seeing tangible impacts from climate change in Boulder County and the need to cut emissions and use more renewable energy is taken seriously.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 31, 2023

However, under the Trump administration, an emphasis was made to keep automobiles affordable by not over-regulating the industry. Ann Carlson’s previous role as an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles makes it clear which side of the fence she’s on.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Credit: Los Angeles Times. Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. Credit: The Texas Tribune. energy goal.

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